Vampire Survivors developer Poncle is launching its personal publishing arm.
As reported by GamesIndustry.biz, whereas talking at Recreation Republic’s Pitching to Traders and Publishers occasion in Liverpool yesterday, the Poncle crew claimed that it didn’t merely “need IP” and wouldn’t function as a “conventional” writer within the unbiased video games area.
The purpose for the publishing arm is, in accordance with Poncle, to assist in permitting builders to make the sport they wish to make.
The writer will supply funding assist, in addition to assist with first-party platforms, localization, launch administration, and extra. The crew is in search of video games developed with “sincerity, ardour and depth”.
The writer outlined a bunch of “insta-no” pitches that it’s going to uniformly reject. These embrace “Survivor-like” video games that stray too near its personal Vampire Survivors. The corporate additionally gained’t contain itself in video games which are AI or Web3-related, or free-to-play cell titles.
Vampire Survivors was launched for PC, Mac, Xbox consoles and cell in 2022, earlier than hitting Change in 2023 and PlayStation platforms earlier this Summer season.
It was nicely obtained by critics, earnings it scores starting from 86 to 95 on overview aggregations website Metacritic.
Vampire Survivors gained Motion Recreation of the Yr eventually yr’s DICE Awards, in addition to the Finest Recreation and Finest Design prizes on the BAFTA Video games Awards.
Plans to deliver Vampire Survivors to PlayStation consoles have been introduced alongside Contra-themed DLC for the sport, which was launched for different platforms in Might.
