The Vyker Story

The story of Vyker began way back in 2018. Game creator Adam Wolsin explains, “I remember my family and I were just sitting around, hanging out. To my right was one of my kids playing Slither.io, and to my left was my wife playing Candy Crush. I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to combine these two games into one!'” At that moment Vyker was born, and within a few months Wolsin produced a 180-page document describing every detail of his vision. He recalled his own childhood memories of classic games like Asteroids and Space Invaders. “I loved playing space games growing up and I suspect this subconsciously nudged me to make Vyker into a retro space arcade game.”

Within a month he found an investor, hired a coder, and the work began. But some technical issues and eventual budget limitations delayed development, sometimes for many months at a time. Although frustrated Wolsin remained hopeful and committed. “I just wanted to make a game that was not only really fun, but really unique.”

What makes his space game so unique is the way the player grows their spacecraft (called a “Vyker”) which is done by collecting multi-colored cargoes scattered throughout the galaxy. With every cargo collected the Vyker grows longer, like a snake. “That’s the Slither.io part of the game” Wolsin explains. But the real fun is deciding which color cargoes to collect, because the collection process is not random but rather very strategic. He elaborates, “Unlike any other snake game, the color you collect really matters. If colors other than the player’s own color are collected they will attract attacks by enemy Vykers of that color.”

So the challenge is to collect and then try to convert those colors to your own color before being attacked. Wolsin points out, “Color conversion is achieved by matching colors, and this is the Candy Crush part of the game. Collecting an equal amount of every other color will convert all those colors to the player’s own color and will also score major points, up to 25 million!”

As a side note, the emphasis on color is baked into the name of the game, albeit not so obviously. The word “vyker” is derived from the word “vikerkaar”, which is the Estonian word for “rainbow”.

“There are eight different missions in Vyker”, Wolsin says. “But matching the most cargo is definitely the most stimulating one because it’s difficult and rare. For instance, no one has ever achieved a Match-8 or a Match-9. And I’ve only achieved a Match-7 one time! In fact, there’s a play-along video (see below) all over our social media of me notching that Match-7 unexpectedly, and you can really hear the excitement in my voice as I narrate the play-by-play! Perhaps by striving for this and other achievements in my game, I’m hoping other players will experience that same excitement!”

Vyker launched in February of 2025 and is available on the App Store and Google Play.

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