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"On Steam alone, I probably have 3,000 hours": Nobody loves Vampire Survivors more than its creator, who once thought nobody would play it "for more than two hours" and ironically says short games rule

"The movie ticket comparison" can be a useful "price to gameplay" gut check

'What a publisher should do is, first of all, make genuine games': Vampire Survivors creator says he started his own publisher because too few 'try and let the developer realize their vision'

'What a publisher should do is, first of all, make genuine games': Vampire Survivors creator says he started his own publisher because too few 'try and let the developer realize their vision'

The progenitor of the Survivors-like genre says he "may be a bit idealistic."

"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

"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

"I mean, it comes from someone who made Vampire Survivors. Of course I think it's the natural course of a game."

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"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"

"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?

"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’ Castlevania DLC map is so big that I keep getting lost, but I'd do it all over again just to have Sonia Belmont's sonic whip

The DLC goes hard—there's no denying it.

'Please try not to binge it': Vampire Survivors finally releases a Castlevania DLC with 20 new characters, 40 new weapons, and 'a monstrously large stage'

"The full-circle moment we've been waiting for."

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List of the UK's richest game devs and influencers puts Garry's Mod creator neck-and-neck with Rockstar founders, but the richest of all is a different pair of gaming brothers worth £12.5 billion

List of the UK's richest game devs and influencers puts Garry's Mod creator neck-and-neck with Rockstar founders, but the richest of all is a different pair of gaming brothers worth £12.5 billion

I would like to get £12.5 billion from gaming-related endeavors.

From Big Macs to Baftas: the incredible story behind the hit video game Vampire Survivors

From Big Macs to Baftas: the incredible story behind the hit video game Vampire Survivors

Luca Galante went from flipping burgers in Thornton Heath to accidentally creating a gaming sensation in one of the few true indie developer rags-to-riches tales

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Vampire Survivors reportedly has a secret "Directer's Cut" with "wild" new characters and levels

Vampire Survivors reportedly has a secret "Directer's Cut" with "wild" new characters and levels

And it's just sat there, in a playable form

Vampire Survivors saved its creator from working on mobile gambling games

Vampire Survivors saved its creator from working on mobile gambling games

A new mini documentary gets into the rise of Luca Galante, poncle, and Vampire Survivors.

Indie mega-hit Vampire Survivors gets animated series

Indie mega-hit Vampire Survivors gets animated series

Solo dev Luca Galante wonders "if they've realized that there isn't a single vampire" in the game

Vampire Survivors' latest DLC is a perfect $2 jolt of the game I fell in love with last year

Vampire Survivors' latest DLC is a perfect $2 jolt of the game I fell in love with last year

More goofy guys, weird weapons, and secrets galore.

What is Vampire Survivors? The UK title that won best game at the Baftas

The indie smash was made in Britain by an Italian developer who once worked in a McDonald’s in London.

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Bafta Games Awards: God of War wins six but Vampire Survivors is best game

The were gasps in the crowd as a cult indie shooter beat the blockbusters to the key award of the night

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