Vampire Survivors was rebuilt for Xbox without some players noticing, as the original version had a number of issues...
, the developer needed to rebuild it so it could run smoothly on Xbox consoles — a feat the team achieved without some players even noticing.The original version of Vampire Survivors was"basically a browser game," Poncle Tech Director Sam McGarry told, built for PC using web technologies like Javascript.
With Vampire Survivors still running Javascript on PC and the Xbox version running on its own engine, McGarry explained that maintaining a consistent level of parity between them both is challenging, but worth it for the player experience."Making sure that players can actually go between Xbox platforms and continue their game is very important to us," McGarry said.
While juggling the two versions of Vampire Survivors could be seen as a rigorous process, interestingly, McGarry says that getting the game to operate as an Xbox Cloud Gaming title was relatively painless, saying:"We put the game out, ticked a box, and then it was available in the Cloud just like that basically."alongside plenty of new content.
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