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'Please remember the game has no plot': Vampire Survivors dev points out one of the many challenges in turning its roguelike into a live-action film

www.pcgamer.com 'Please remember the game has no plot': Vampire Survivors dev points out one of the many challenges in turning its roguelike into a live-action film

Poncle also says adapting Vampire Survivors "requires good ideas, creativity, and that quirky knowledge of the game, that is a very difficult triplet to get 100% right."

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No plot? Perfect for modern Hollywood!
- Saw dead don't die. I don't think you can make a worst zombie movie. So the bar is low.

They already made Battleship. That board game has even less implied plot than VS, so that argument isn't the roadblock for Hollywood that it should be.
- The lack of plot can actually be helpful as it gives more freedom without upsetting any fans about breaking lore. Also battleship was a far better movie than it had any right to be.
  
  Yea, it was one of the last things I watched off a streaming service when I was really scraping the bottom of the barrel before I cancelled them and I was surprised to find it pretty entertaining.
- Battleship was pro navy propaganda like top gun.
- Same with LoL
  
  While not exactly a plot, LoL launched with a decent amount of lore, and grew over time. I still have my physical copy that came with a map of the nations and where main characters were from.

Here's my try: Anthology movie. Each one fights larger and larger hordes of enemies while trying to find loot and spells.
Meanwhile death does the narration and the whole time waxes on about mortality.
No vampires ever appear on screen.

Could be a challenge, could also be an opportunity to make a genuinely good story because you have so much freedom.
- For sure. In the right hands you could do so much. Even without a plot as such, or much lore, just imagine the material for a "Game Theory" video. Why is the "Mad Forest" now a dumping ground for evil? What was it like before the vampire? Does the Astral Stair connect to the Tiny Bridge? What is the Legacy of Moonspell? Where is the fried chicken?
  
  Why are the floors covered in entire chickens that have been fully cooked are perfectly safe to eat?

So they won't need any script writers. It's already well on its way to make money!

There's a strong Italian influence in the character names, which are often quirky, pun filled, and dirty. I feel like the movie could be a Renaissance Italy sex comedy a la 70s horror films, but with a comedic twist. Like Suspiria or Vampyros Lesbos, but comedic.

i mean, if someone was interested in making a fun movie and not a cheap cash grab, just having a basic setting wouldn't prevent them from doing that.

Aren't they creating a Sims film though? If you can do that they can do anything

Will the movie feature the among us dlc?

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