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Vaporware EX

Vaporware EX is a comfy 16-bit game dev simulator full of neon-infused nostalgia, set in the games industry of 199X. Lose the suit, put on a hoodie, and discover what it really takes to ship a game in this love letter to a bygone time where you still had to fit everything into a cartridge.

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Seraphine Software
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Seraphine Software
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About the Game

Vaporware EX is a comfy 16-bit game dev simulator full of neon-infused nostalgia, set in the games industry of 199X. Lose the suit, put on a hoodie, and discover what it really takes to ship a game in this love letter to a bygone time where you still had to fit everything into a cartridge.

Features

  • Name and customize your team of four game developers

  • Jam out to a fully stocked soundtrack of vaporwave and future funk tracks

  • Level up your developers into legends of game development, customising their stats and traits along the way as they grow with the games they produce

  • Build a party that can face the challenge of any project and ship any game you can dream of

  • Fight through feature development as you make use of turn-based combat to build a game that resonates with what your vision seeks to create

  • Grow your game's content score to soaring heights to impress your fans and push the creative limits of what a game can be

  • Answer e-mails from publishers, journalists, rivals, fans, and your own team, making critical decisions that will make or break your success

  • Negotiate terms with publishers to find the best possible deal

  • Fix challenging bugs to polish the features you've implemented and make a better game

  • Invest in people, infrastructure, research and operations to build your studio's capability and resources

  • Develop a fanbase as you release your games

  • Win awards for your efforts to build your prestige and notoriety worldwide

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