"Vampire Survivor" was a great success after Steam opened the "Early Access", and today the official release of the 1.0 version of the update plan map, the official version is expected to have a total of 24 playable characters, 10 levels, 48 weapons, 20 abilities and many other content, there will be 2 new mechanisms. However, the originally planned story mode may be banned by other modes.
The producers said he originally developed Vampire Survivor just to make a mini-game that would entertain himself, and at the time it was expected that the first version would already contain 60% of the content. Unexpectedly, the game unexpectedly exploded, and players were very supportive, so the content update speed far exceeded expectations, and the amount of content in the full version was also greatly expanded. The content of the latest version 0.3.1 is currently about 70% of the full version.
The engine of the first edition of Vampire Survivor is weak and restrictive, and it only uses a single-core CPU, so even high-end computers will encounter the problem of computational difficulties. So while developing the new content for Vampire Survivor, the authors were also working on a simultaneous porting, redoing the game on an industrial-grade engine. The porting work is currently progressing well, and although it has not been optimized, the performance of the game has been improved by about 10 times.
However, some of the new features that were previously promised to be added to the original engine were deferred to the new engine version, because it was too laborious to do in the original engine and could further affect performance. The new engine is expected to be implemented this summer, when players' saves can be preserved.
Vampire Survivor 1.0 will add 2 new game mechanics, one is the "Arcane" system, which is expected to be released in April, which will unlock many new genres of gameplay, and the second new mechanic will eliminate the previously planned story mode, which is not yet determined, but may be an endless mode. The producers said that the story mode is not necessarily permanently canceled, but it has not yet considered how to deal with it.
In addition, the author also talked about the mobile game version. "Vampire Survivor" was actually developed for the Android side at the beginning, but the early test performance was so poor that the author abandoned the Android side and made a PC version instead. But now, Vampire Survivor has a new game engine, so it is very suitable for porting to the mobile terminal, and may be another mobile game version in the future.
Finally, the producers also talked about the inspiration for the development of Vampire Survivor, one of which is Magic Survival, the author said that this is a great Android game, he recommends everyone to play, if it were not for playing this, he would not have developed "Vampire Survivor".
He also recommends a "CvRL: Serenade of Chaos", and the material used in "Vampire Survivor" comes from the customized material package of "CvRL". In addition, some of the mechanics of Vampire Survivor also come from "Path of Eden" and "Kagero Deception 2".
CvRL: Serenade of Chaos, which shares some of the footage with Vampire Survivor
Currently, Vampire Survivor Steam has a 98% rating and supports Chinese Simplified (the store page is not updated, it is not supported, but the in-game has been updated)