Poncle, the studio behind the award-winning horde-defense sport Vampire Survivors, has shared a few of its future targets for the shock hit in a new Steam post.
The UK-based indie studio has massive plans for 2024 and past. Though most of what is included on this preview of what is to come back addresses stuff we already knew about (like on-line co-op, cross-platform saves, the upcoming animated TV sequence), Poncle’s submit additionally teases free plans to work on different video games.
After thanking gamers for sticking with and supporting Vampire Survivors and recapping all the pieces Poncle achieved in 2023, studio head Luca Galante dove into specifics about what’s down the pipeline. Particulars like a agency roadmap or launch dates for any of those updates are fairly sparse right here given Poncle’s comparatively small measurement of 20 staff.
Galante addressed on-line co-op first. Though it has been introduced that builders are engaged on including on-line co-op to the sport, the submit acknowledges that it is a “enormous problem” to implement.
“We have got assist now, and issues are wanting promising, however it’s nonetheless too early for us to have the ability to make any guarantees,” Galante wrote. “We’ll maintain supplying you with tiny updates till hopefully we will affirm it is truly going to occur.”
He then moved on to cross-platform save recordsdata, saying they have been in testing for some time earlier than confirming that Poncle’s planning to launch cross-save performance in public beta subsequent month. On the time of writing, the general public beta will solely work on Steam and Android platforms however will ultimately come to different platforms if all goes based on plan.
Extra Cross-Media Initiatives?
In the meantime, following final 12 months’s SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, it ought to come as no shock that the Vampire Survivors animated adaptation continues to be a piece in progress. Introduced in April of final 12 months, the collaboration between Poncle and Story Kitchen (a studio fashioned by individuals who’ve labored on tasks like John Wick and the Sonic The Hedgehog film), the one replace right here is that we’ll be getting extra data in some unspecified time in the future in 2024.
Galante added that they’ve “obtained plenty of proposals to collaborate on cross-media tasks, however slightly than leaping the gun we now have most well-liked to attend to seek out companions that felt proper, particularly as a result of to make something that is not a videogame out of VS requires good concepts, creativity, and that quirky information of the sport, that may be a very tough triplet to get 100% proper!”
The submit additionally addressed VS content material, with the promise that the following replace — Model 1.9 — ought to launch on all platforms in February.
Maybe the fascinating (and probably the most vaguest) announcement on this lengthy submit, nevertheless, is The Vampire Survivors Experiment. Poncle is working with indie builders from exterior the studio on, “[Vampire Survivors]-adjacent experiments.” Galante’s very clear right here that these experiments won’t see the sunshine of day, clarifying, “We do not know when, or even when, we’ll be pleased with the ultimate outcomes and be able to share them.”
You possibly can learn Poncle’s full 2024 assertion here.