“At some point, yes – I would love to see the game on more platforms. Although Galante clarifies that it’s “a bit too soon to talk about” any platforms beyond those two, he thinks Vampire Survivors “would be great for a Switch” and “just as good for the Steam Deck”. On the topic of other platforms, Galante says he’d like to re-launch the game on mobile, after an attempted launch in May 2021 “ran so poorly that just stopped developing it for mobile and put it on PC”. That will allow me to address issues with games not running on certain hardware and so on, and eventually port to other platforms – that will be great.” A couple of them are working on parallel projects to port the game to a different engine, an engine that is a bit more standard.
I now have a few friends that are working on the game in the evenings mostly, when they have some spare time. “As soon as I started to see the numbers go up, I immediately asked for help anyone. While Galante’s as keen as he ever was to deliver on that promises, he says that he’s quickly realised that the scope of Vampire Survivors has perhaps grown beyond his capabilities as a one-man developer. Galante points to the Early Access warning on Vampire Survivors‘ Steam page and describes it as a “promise” to his community, adding that fulfilling the promises on that page “just wouldn’t have been possible if I’d kept my day job.” This is clearly a success, I spent almost nothing on the original game, I really wasn’t expecting this kind of attention – I just wanted a little something I could play and relax over the weekend.” I just thought that I would regret not trying to spend as much time as I could on this.
“I just felt like I didn’t have a choice, really. But I simply couldn’t keep the job and do this at the same time,” Galante reveals. I had just started a new job just last week, and I had to leave yesterday because the game is doing so well and it requires so much attention for now. Galante’s excitement is palpable, and it also makes a lot of sense: not only has his game achieved astronomical success, he’s also chatting to us from the back of a huge decision. Sitting down to chat with NME, Galante’s got the energy of a man who’s just won the lottery: as he admits, the success of Vampire Survivors has exceeded his expectations “1,000 times over”, and it’s “changed everything” for him. > < #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #gamedev #indiegame /x3NaLrgREl Needless to say, nobody was expecting Vampire Survivors – an arcadey survival game that looks suspiciously like Castlevania – to become as popular as it has, least of all the game’s creator – Luca ‘Poncle’ Galante. That’s a far cry from the humble 72 players it had on a similar Thursday back in December. According to SteamDB, it’s one of the most played games on Steam, pulling ahead of titles like Dead By Daylight, Destiny 2 and plenty of other big names.Īt the time of writing this – 2PM on a Thursday afternoon – there are just over 50,000 players busily fending off all manner of ghosts, bats and zombies.
Now, Vampire Survivors‘ time has well and truly arrived. READ MORE: ‘Vampire Survivors’ is this week’s must-play indie hit.It’s been quietly biding its time on Valve‘s storefront since December of last year, but only last month did the reverse bullet hell explode in popularity. Vampire Survivors arrived on Steam in the figurative dead of night.
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