Hello, I just wanted to talk about this game before I release it. I first started this game on 01/03/2024 (July 3rd 2024) at 2:04 PM (14:04), but I like to imagine it started long before that. All the way in 2023, around now. I was bored during math class, and decided to draw a little guy. That little guy was geko. I decided on a name for him, and the first word that came to mind was “gecko” because it just sounded funky i guess. I removed the c for some reason and now it’s geko. I’ve made plenty of geko-themed games, such as a catcher, some kind of snake thing, a plants vs zombies type game, and even tried making a farming game. None of them seemed right for geko. But then, I stumbled upon Vampire Survivors. Quickly, this type of game became my favorite to make. I just liked shooter games and stuff I guess. A great example of this was No Life, which I made shortly after inventing the geko character. I really liked no life, even though it’s kinda bad. I left this genre for a while, just occasionally making random games. Then, over winter break, a year after No Life, I suddenly decided to make another geko game, but this one was gonna be different. Better. It started out as a No Life clone, but then after remembering a game I used to love as a child, being Ninjago Tournament, I decided to make the game have a ton of characters (but this one ended up only having 8). This game went through a few different versions, even being a scrolling game at some point, but none of them really felt right. Then I remade it one last time, and as I worked on the first “cool” thing, being the play button that bounces (idk why), I decided that I had to make this game. I worked on it for about a month, but development was kinda slow. There wasn’t a lot that was done in a really long time. I decided to make a youtube video about it, and of course (like all my videos do) it flopped. got ~30 views, but there was 1 person that seemed really excited about the game, so I continued to work on it more. Eventually, that single person joined my discord server and became a beta tester. On February 5th, 2024, I released the first version for the beta tester(s) to play. Here is exactly what they said: “I tried it for 40 minutes and I loved it, especially the character of the vampire and the glass, but I would love for the ghost boss to have an area where it will appear, because it has happened to me several times that I swallow the boss because it appears in the face… thank you geko for existing :)))))”. I added a few more characters, and added the little spawn indicator, and then development slowed down again, as the game reached closer to now. Now here it is, ready to be launched to the world. I don’t expect a lot of people to see this, or care about it, but I just want whoever sees this to know that I care a lot about this game and it is the best game I have ever made (just like no life was back when I made it). Anyway I hope you enjoy the game (when it releases). Adios!