‘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’

In 2021, game developer Luca Galante released Vampire Survivors as a diversion from his soul-hollowing day job of working on a mobile gambling game, inadvertently birthing a nascent genre propelled by the force of silly Italian names and millions upon millions of dead...