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From Big Macs to Baftas: the incredible story behind the hit video game Vampire Survivors (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 1 year ago by soyagi@yiffit.net to c/games@lemmy.world
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Luca Galante went from flipping burgers in Thornton Heath to accidentally creating a gaming sensation in one of the few true indie developer rags-to-riches tales

Archived version: https://archive.ph/RYbQn

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[–] DrMango@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

Kind of funny that Galante was programming slot machines prior to making the game as there's a lot of aspects of VS I've always thought were just great at triggering that good old reward circuit in the brain.