Serpentine Survivors - Launch

Vampire survivors is something i've wanted to recreate for the longest time.

But i didnt want to recreate it 1 to 1, it would need to be a game inspired by it, with its own twist to it.

The stars aligned when i saw my friend host a game jam, and i saw the jam theme "feed the beast", and i thought, well thats a perfect excuse to do a vampire survivors clone, where the roles are reversed, where you are the baddie chasing stuff running from you.

I started off with the classic programmer art MSPaint, for the player, and made food items to chase, and by that point, the game was already fundementally fun, it already felt nice to play it, which is harder to achieve than one would think.

The idea of the game was to feed the player before it died of hunger, and due to how the character controller was playing, i thought, it kind of feels like a snake, what if i add snake body into it?

Now the game was even better, as the bending of the snake was pleasant to look at, and it added another dimension into the survivor genre, where if you grow out to be too big, you would have to also avoid your own tail or else you would end up dying.

I Personally ended up playing this prototype for hours before i gave it out for people to playtest, and the playtest did not dissappoint.

My friend matissetec had this to say about the game:

Which is great, because i intended the game to be slightly rage inducing, so you would want to try to play the game more.

Lastly i ended up adding leaderboards into the game, which promoted competition between players, and somehow 

ccd managed to last nearly 11 minutes, when my personal record was 2 minutes 7 seconds.

All in all, i am very happy that i ended up participating in this game jam, as this game ended up being the best game ive made yet, by far.