Vampire Survivors
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"I felt like playing 30 hours of story mode was actually the tutorial": Too many RPGs and JRPGs end after their combat really gets good, Vampire Survivors creator says, which is where the roguelike formula is so great
By Austin Wood published
News "I mean, it comes from someone who made Vampire Survivors. Of course I think it's the natural course of a game."

"I see a lot of publishers I don't like": Vampire Survivors creator made his own publisher to "share the luck" and says too many companies "try to exploit the platforms just to make money"
By Austin Wood published
News "I definitely see the publishing business more from the point of view of making games"

Vampire Survivors kicked off a game development gold rush, but has a legitimately new genre emerged between the cash-ins?
By Julian Benson published
Feature "The first thing I noticed was the literal ripoffs": Luca Galante reflects on Vampire Survivors' landmark launch, and developers talk the birth of a new genre

Vampire Survivors dev says the chances of cross-save coming to PlayStation "are now very slim but not impossible" after running into "a legal issue" at the last minute
By Catherine Lewis published
News Developer Poncle is "going to keep working alongside PlayStation to resolve these problems"

Vampire Survivors devs launch official wiki "free of ads, banners, and all of the junk that gets in your way," joining Stardew Valley and Terraria in community wikis with minimal intrusions
By Dustin Bailey published
News The devs behind the viral roguelike are directly partnering with the community on this wiki

Before selling millions of copies, Vampire Survivors creator says he'd "given up on the idea of success," and he's not interested in making something just to be successful
By Scott McCrae published
News "I don't want to start having to look around in order to try to maintain the success"

Vampire Survivors creator admits his success was “lucky” amid a wave of cheap mobile knock-offs: “For everyone else, they have to stand out among the hundreds"
By Scott McCrae published
"Players noticed me before any vulture could notice the ascension in sales."

Vampire Survivors dev teases "one more original expansion," online co-op, and what sounds like a whole new game in the studio's "biggest, chaotic-est, surprising-est" year yet
By Jordan Gerblick published
News Dev behind roguelike breakout says "we're still cooking"
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