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Dennis Vukanovic, (born May 16th, 1974, 50 years old) more commonly known as DVloper/DVapps AB, is a Swedish indie game developer who mainly focuses on developing horror games for mobile devices. Although he has made PC ports of the Granny trilogy (3 Granny games) on Steam and Slendrina: The Cellar on GameJolt, he is known for his hit video game series Granny game trilogy and Slendrina series.

DVloper has been making games for over 10 years now (13 years to be exact) as of September 2024, since he started way back in December 2011.

He started developing simple games and other applications such as My daily expenses on the MIT App Inventor engine, but he moved to Unity, a professional game engine, since 2013.

As of now, he has 17 games for Android devices, 13 games for iOS devices, and 4 games for Microsoft Windows devices. DVloper didn't publish any game for MacOS and Linux devices.

Personal Information:[]

Dennis Vukanovic was born on May 16th, 1974 and currently resides in Sweden.

  • He is believed to be of Serbian descent, given that he has a Serbian surname and his father's name is Ilija Vukanovic (he is the voice actor of Grandpa). Though, he also might have Swedish descent as Sweden.
  • 2006.

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Apps/Games Developed by DVloper[]

The following are listed by their date of publishing, starting with the earliest.

Slendrina[]

A horror game likely inspired by the Slender: The Eight Pages video game. The gameplay consists of the player roaming around big maps seeking for items while the hostile ghost of a woman named Slendrina haunts them, teleporting around the map trying to kill the player with her deadly gaze.

Slender Man Rise Again / Slender Man: Stands[]

Known on Google Play as Slender Man Rise again and on App Store as Slender Man: Stands, it is an unofficial remake of the video game Slender Man: The Eight Pages. The player must search for the 8 pages scattered around the maps while a tall, pale and faceless entity is trying to kill them with their deadly gaze, using their ability to teleport to help.

  • Taken down on Google Play (Published on: December 19th, 2013, later removed on: August 3rd, 2016)
  • App Store page (Published on January 22nd, 2015)

Slendrina: The Cellar[]

The second game in the Slendrina video games series with similar gameplay and ideas. The player must roam around maze-like cellars searching for books and also keys that will help them by unlocking certain doors on the maps. The game uses a points system for replayability and progression, as they can be spent on unlocking new maps.

House of Slendrina[]

The third game in the Slendrina video game series with similar gameplay. The player has gone into the house previously inhabited by Slendrina on a mission to find secrets surrounding her. The player must collect 8 painting pieces to open a cabinet with the key to the basement and find their way into a chest that is found there.

Robot Hunt[]

A tactical shooter game or a First Person Survival (FPS) game, where the player is found in one of the maps or locations in a basement with hostile robots that don't resist nor stop shooting the Player. The goal is finding useful equipment such as ammunition to help yourself defeat all the robots who don't stop shooting toward you.

The game has been removed on Play Store, due to being publishing policy.

  • Taken down on Google Play, (Published on: April 17, 2015, later removed on: September 23, 2018)

Slendrina Asylum[]

The fourth game in the Slendrina video game series with small gameplay changes from its predecessors. The player finds themselves in an asylum that they don't recognize, searching for 8 pages and other useful equipment while the undead mother of Slendrina is together with her to hunt the player around the asylum, trying to murder them.

The game has been taken down on Play Store, due to a change in their publishing policy. However, on October 14th, 2023, the game was brought back onto the Play Store, but later removed again on May 5th, 2024, and again came back on June 21st, 2024.

Slendrina 2D[]

The fifth game in the Slendrina video game series with different graphical looks and gameplay-wise twists. The player is a man named Alexander who has decided to go into a house they found to hide from the rain. Along the way they will find many sick secrets of the house and get themselves into deadly situations, mainly caused by its inhabitants. The game is rendered in a 2D environment and the gameplay is more puzzle-oriented as the goal is now to find various items and uses for them to progress further.

The Child Of Slendrina[]

The sixth game in the Slendrina video game series that returns to the classic formula. The player wakes up in a locked jail cell somewhere in a cellar out of which they get out and start finding key pieces all around the place while new enemies, like Slendrina's child and Slender Man will start attacking them. Once all the pieces are collected, they form a full key that the player will use to get Slendrina's diary from a safe near where they woke up, which will make everything start crumbling and make the house shake like an earthquake under Slendrina's rage.

Hotel Insanity[]

An endless survival game where the player must avoid many dangers in an old, abandoned hotel that will haunt them and explore the hotel to find useful equipment for them to survive as long as they can. The antagonists are: The maniacs who will haunt the player to murder them and take away their health, the hunger that depletes slowly and should be kept an eye on and a yellow bullfrog-like entity that will steal the food player has, all add the challenge to the game, itself.

The game has been taken down on Play Store, due to being publishing policy.

  • Taken down on Google Play, (Published on: July 8, 2016, later removed on: September 24, 2018)

Slendrina: The School[]

The seventh game in the Slendrina video game series. The player has entered the school where Slendrina once was taught at to find any clues on what has happened to her. On their way they will have to find 8 fuses to get to an isolated class room and a teddy bear to trade it for a group photo with Slendrina, once as a human.

Slendrina: The Cellar 2[]

The eighth game in the Slendrina video game series as a remake of one of its predecessors, "Slendrina: The Cellar". The player has entered into an infamous cellar to find the 8 books hidden there, but on the way to do so they will be faced against Slendrina, her mother, and her child who will try their best to attack them until dead.

Slendrina: The Forest[]

The ninth game in the Slendrina video game series. The player has gone into an infamous forest with a goal of finding if the rumors about it are true. They will have to find the 8 keys and other various items that will get them closer to a secret hidden in there. Their goal will be made harder by the enemies of the game who will chase and haunt them until they are dead.

Slendrina X[]

The tenth game in the Slendrina video game series comes as its ending. The player wakes up locked in a room somewhere in a basement that they eventually find a way out of and into a huge castle. The player will have to find various items, uses for them and solve puzzles to progress further while Slendrina with the new enemies like her husband and their 2 spider pets will attack them to stop them from doing so.

Granny[]

A survival horror game with diverse puzzle elements in it. The Player while wandering in a forest for an unknown reason has been knocked out unconscious and dragged into a house by an old, rotting grandmother named Granny. She is an undead zombie-like old woman or a grandmother who forces her prey into playing deadly hunt games where they have five days to escape the house and losing means death or game over. The Player must find items/tools scattered around the house and uses for them while not getting caught by Granny's attention or herself.

Granny: Chapter Two[]

A successor to the game Granny with similar gameplay mechanics to it. The Player wakes up in the previous mentioned house of Granny and then Granny hits the Player and they wake up in the back seat of a car, seeing Granny and her husband, Grandpa taking them into their new house. The Player must find a way out of the house under five days while the two enemies will try to stop them from doing so.

The Twins[]

A spin-off of the Granny videogame with similar mechanics and gameplay. The player is a criminal who has been given an ultimatum of either rescuing valuable artefacts out of the two criminal twins' dwelling or being sent to the jail. After agreeing to the rescue, the player breaks into the abandoned prison they inhabit and use various items that help escape. After being caught, they still have several chances that last until their health-bar is completely drained.

Granny 3[]

A successor to the Granny and Granny: Chapter Two, videogames similar to the gameplay of Granny 3. The player is an explorer who has entered the zone of the grandparents' household and was trapped in there. They wake up inside an old, locked up cell and start finding their way out, with the ghost of Slendrina returning as an enemy.

The game has been denied for publishing by App Store due to them falsely detecting this game as spam.

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Lost Apps/Games:[]

There is little information about the following apps as there are no instances nor any APK sources of them left, only some media and these were one of the earliest known works of DVloper before he moved on creating horror games such as Slendrina series and Granny trilogy series.

Trivia[]

  • His name is listed as DVloper on Google Play and as Dennis Vukanovic on App Store.
  • Robot Hunt, The Child Of Slendrina, Hotel Insanity, Slendrina X and Granny 3 are the only DVloper games that aren't available on iOS for some reason. Possibly considering some as spam by iOS or they did not approve these games.
  • The only games by DVloper that is not connected to the universe of Granny/Slendrina series are: Robot Hunt, Hotel Insanity, and The Twins.
  • DVloper's publisher countries on Google Play and the App Store are Germany and Russia respectively, even though he is from Sweden.
  • DVloper said that it's hard for him to find good people that he can trust so he doesn't work in a team.
  • All DVloper's lost apps were made with MIT App Inventor before moving on to Unity in 2013.
  • DVloper has created a 3D mining game, inspired by Minecraft, with Unity which was never released. He released three trailers for the game, but they have been privatized. The original links of the trailer were here, here, and here. An archive of the first trailer can be found here.[1]
  • DVloper gets most of his textures from the textures.com website.
  • DVloper's logo uses the font "Viner Hand ITC". This is only used in the "DV" part, as the rest of the text is very likely custom-made by DVloper himself.
  • In one tweet, Keplerians Horror Games wrote to DVloper about cooperation. Either he ignored this comment, didn't notice it or didn't want.
  • Although DVloper makes most game assets, he takes some from these sites: Unity Asset Store, cgtrader, Turbosquid,etc
  • DVloper uses Reaper to compose, he said this in this Tweet.
  • DVloper's most viewed video is Granny's first trailer with more than 137M views and with more than $685K in revenue.
  • You can see all of DVloper's YouTube Chanel's statistics here.
  • DVloper uses a lot of fonts for his games that he takes from the internet, but some of the fonts are made by him.
  • DVloper has a website just for Granny and Granny: Chapter Two, named grannyhorror.com.
    • It is unknown why DVloper didn't update the website to include Granny 3 so it could be a trilogy.
  • DVloper also had an itch.io page, but it was deleted.
    • This isn't DVloper though.
  • It is implied that The Twins' and Granny 3's coin is DVloper's face, however, this is still unknown.

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