Vampire Survivors developer Poncle is branching out from making videogames that are pure sugar in digital form. It's getting businessy, and has announced that it's opening a new publishing division, presumably to help other devs consume hours, days, months of our time with the most absurdly moreish games ever made.
According to GI.biz, Poncle's team was speaking at Game Republic's Pitching to Investors and Publishers event in Liverpool on Wednesday when it announced its big plans to bankroll other people's game dev dreams.
Specifically, it said it wasn't going to be a «traditional publisher,» which is entirely believable for the company whose recent patch notes just consisted of increasingly unhinged scrawls of «Bug fixes and improvements» in different-sized fonts.
Of course, every capitalist on Earth wants to make their endeavours sound like they come from a place of love, but I'm inclined to believe Poncle on this one.
It says it wants to act pretty much as a piggy bank to help others «make their games,» and is offering stuff like funding, help with platforms, localisation, QA, and all the other stuff you generally expect from, you know, a publisher. «We want to sign everything!» said the team, «But we're very smol!» Except, actually, it doesn't want to sign everything.