Hello everyone — if anyone is reading this message, this post, before the official launch of all of Vanelton Media’s products.
Right now, as I’m writing this, it’s 2:01 in the morning here in Brazil, in a house in a neighborhood that’s, let’s say, a bit more humble — low-income. I wanted to share what it feels like to be finishing up all the planning for Vanelton Media’s launch in January 2027, and I hope this plan holds strong, so we can actually launch and enjoy this beautiful project that we — myself (Vanelton) and Lucas de Morais — have worked on for so many years.
But I also want to leave a few thoughts in this post. Thoughts I have about all of this, because they say a lot about who I am and what I hope for from everything I’m doing. Honestly, this is me getting something off my chest. I don’t even know if I should be doing this here, but here I go.
In 2019, when I made a prototype of a pretty bad tycoon game and showed my mom how it could earn good money to help her pay the bills, she looked at what I had made with so much love and asked if that was “all it was.” That question made me really sad, for a long time. And for a long time, I thought my mother looked down on me, that she didn’t believe in my potential.
In 2020 I made another prototype, this time of an online game called ButSoccer (there are still records of it today — I published it under the name Butterfly Aquarium Studios), and I didn’t tell her about it, because in my head, she wouldn’t understand any of it, and I had to be ready on my own. The game turned out terrible and left me stuck in frustration.
Then, in 2021, I built a prototype of a 3v3 soccer game using Construct 3, and it was actually really good. A friend named Bianca Wolski told me I should invest in it, because it was so much fun to play. I did, and for years I dedicated myself to that project. My friend doesn’t talk to me anymore, but I’m grateful to her for believing in it back then — and that’s why I dedicated a character to her. Actually, to her mom. That character is Lucy, a reference to Luczyszyn, her mother’s surname — may she rest in peace, wherever she is; she will never be forgotten.
While I was building all of this, I kept coming back to my mom’s question about my project. I realized that I might actually have the potential for so much more — more than just a simple tycoon game where you click buttons and wait for random things to happen. I realized that even though a game like that has value, I could be capable of creating bigger things. Mom, Marta, I love you with everything I have, and thank you so much for making me into the man I am today. Everything I’ve coded, everything I’ve built, everything I’ve helped Lucas build, everything we’ve built together — I owe it to my dear mother Marta, to that one question, because it’s what made my desire for more grow bigger and bigger: my desire to be great, to reach my full potential.
In December 2024, I met Lucas de Morais (Also the current owner of Vanelton Media), who would go on to become a great partner in this Vanelton Media journey. I’m really happy and proud that the company is in good hands — not just mine. We’re in this together, and we’ll be in it until the end. I still remember when we first started talking, because of two games we were each making, and were, supposedly, competitors.
I’m definitely not going to stop, even if none of this ends up mattering, even if Vanelton Media doesn’t succeed — or doesn’t succeed right now. This company is truly my life. Maybe it always has been. I’ve given everything I have, everything left in me — all my patience, my money, my dedication, my sleepless nights. Even tired, I will absolutely still be here, because this is where my story begins, and maybe, one day, where it ends.
In this life, I’m certain of one thing: there will never be a shortage of sweat, never a shortage of dedication — I will sweat blood if that’s what it takes to build my livelihood, to build the thing I love doing. And I can’t deny it either — I need this. I hate not being able to do the things I love because I lack autonomy, because I don’t have a profession of my own, and that might be one of my greatest sources of pain.
So I’ll end this message by saying that no matter what happens today, no matter what happens at launch, Vanelton will always be here.
This is my message, with love for this whole project.