Vampire Survivors – Cane and Rinse No.636

The Cane and Rinse videogame podcast

Cane and Rinse

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🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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"Thank you Poe, but the vampire is in another coffin.” Vampire Survivors started off as a solo developer effort that turned into a huge indie hit. A compulsive experience that employs various slots-style visual and audio cues to give upgrades more 'juice', the game is nevertheless an incredibly generous affair with rock bottom store prices and no microtransactions. Thomas, James and Sean – along with contributors from the listening community – chat through the basic, charming visuals, the gameplay loop, and the ethics of tricks borrowed from world of gambling. http://media.blubrry.com/caneandrinse/caneandrinse.com/podcast/cane_and_rinse_issue_636.mp3 Music featured in this issue: 1. Reincarnated Echos by Daniele Zandara/Filippo Vicarelli/William Davies/Lorenzo Floro2. Needs More Fighting by Daniele Zandara/Filippo Vicarelli/William Davies/Lorenzo Floro edited by Jay TaylorYou can support Cane and Rinse and in return receive an often extended version of the podcast four weeks early, along with exclusive podcasts, if you subscribe to our Patreon for the minimum of $2 per month (+VAT). Do you have an opinion about a game we're covering that you'd like read on the podcast? Then venture over to our forum and check out the list of upcoming games we're covering. Whilst there you can join in the conversations with our friendly community in discussing all things relating to videogames, along with lots of other stuff too. Sound good? Then come and say hello at The Cane and Rinse forum

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0:00.0	Thank you. Hi everybody, welcome to volume 13 issue 636 of the Canaan Rinse podcast.
0:43.6	We're going to cover vampire survivors.
0:47.8	Joining me, Thomas Quelfelt, in this issue is James Carter.
0:51.7	Oh.
0:52.7	And someone who has rather bravely dragged himself out of his coffin at 4 in the morning,
0:59.4	Sean Fletcher.
1:00.2	Thank you, Tom.
1:00.9	The vampire is in another coffin.
1:06.5	So Vampire Survivors is a Gothic horror casual game with rogue-like elements,
1:14.0	rogue light elements as well, one should say.
1:17.6	It was developed as a JavaScript side project of Luca Galante, who it was a programmer
1:27.0	for a gambling company, and previous to that working at McDonald's
1:31.4	because he was in Italian immigrant living in London and this was very, very much a side project
1:37.6	using the phaser HTML5 game engine. He now is the core of what is called Ponkle Limited, which is the developer
1:48.3	and publisher of vampire survivors. And if you've popped your head into the credits, you will now
1:53.2	see it as swelled to some hundred or so people. I should say up front actually, full disclosure,
2:00.0	I work for laced records, which has just recently put out the vampire survivors digital soundtracks, three soundtracks.
2:10.1	So I take that for what it is.
2:14.0	I don't believe I'm biased on the game itself.
2:16.5	I won't have much to say on the music.
2:18.1	I think I'll leave that to the other chaps, but just worth mentioning up front.
2:23.9	One of the artists is Glauber Kataki, who did a lot of the pixel art for the game.
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