- South Africans: Announcing Table Realms Support - 5 October 2018
We just pushed a branch of VALA that'll make it possible to play with friends without needing extra controllers (by using your phone!). Early Access Table Realms, the tech behind this, has just launched in limited early access open to South Africans. The VALA changes we've made won't effect you unless you switch to the TableRealms beta branch on Steam, detailed at the end of this post. Heartwarming backstory you'll want to skip When I was a kid my parents would let me choose what to do each year on my birthday. Every year I would choose exactly the same thing: Have friends over, rent a Playstation, and eat salt beef with a carrot stuck through it. We couldn't afford our own console or TV Games, but the single video store in my small town had a Playstation 1 that we could rent for the day. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F29266244%2F03a14d114c33eacbd9e1fc2%25E2%2580%25A6
- The Graphical Callamity Update - 21 June 2018
We've just pushed a 114MB update to Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse, your favorite llama slaughter battle royale game! At launch there was a particularly tricky graphical bug that slipped through the cracks. I got one of our artists to make an illustration of the situation to better explain: https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F29266244%2F72106617daee30d633e22a3cc92af0a551e7b5b4.jpg The bug was that a few buildings didn't correctly fade as you walked behind them. Instead, they'd leave behind an ugly outline of some of the stickey-outey-bits (if that term goes over your head, don't worry, it is pretty technical). It looked like this: https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F29266244%2F7dd11729c2cc8c94642741150f3a6895999ec4d0.jpg In coding and pest control, the nice bugs are the ones you can find. However this one was fairly tricky becau…
- Want an update? No probllama! - 11 March 2018
If you've got stocks in an energy drink company, you'll notice your portfolio spiked. It's a pleasure. Over the last 2 weeks we've pushed 2 updates to the game with some smaller fixes, but we've also been hard at work on a bunch of much bigger changes for VALA. Here are the big (or somewhat important) changes in this update: New difficulty mode Does VALA feel harder than Dwayne Johnson's 8-pack? We've got you covered! There are now two difficulties: No Probllama and Llaminator. If you played VALA before the update, you've been playing the latter, and your previous progress will show up there. No Probllama is a new, easier difficulty that also happens to be great for casual couch co-oping with friends. Here is the new difficulty selection in the main Deploy menu. Note: Weapon and perk unlocks are global, so it doesn't matter which difficulty they are unlocked with. Note 2: We're working…
- Want an update? No probllama! - 11 March 2018
If you've got stocks in an energy drink company, you'll notice your portfolio spiked. It's a pleasure. Over the last 2 weeks we've pushed 2 updates to the game with some smaller fixes, but we've also been hard at work on a bunch of much bigger changes for VALA. Here are the big (or somewhat important) changes in this update: New difficulty mode Does VALA feel harder than Dwayne Johnson's 8-pack? We've got you covered! There are now two difficulties: No Probllama and Llaminator. If you played VALA before the update, you've been playing the latter, and your previous progress will show up there. No Probllama is a new, easier difficulty that also happens to be great for casual couch co-oping with friends. Here is the new difficulty selection in the main Deploy menu. Note: Weapon and perk unlocks are global, so it doesn't matter which difficulty they are unlocked with. Note 2: We're working…
- One week until launch! - 19 February 2018
We're just one week away from launch LLAMA HYYYYYPE! If you're interested in hearing more details about the development and such, Matt did an interview with Xbox Players South Africa on Facebook. You can watch it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/871726936292791/permalink/1207052369426911/ And finally, yes, I know this is Steam, but if you've got an Xbox (launching mid Match), we just announced Xbox Play Anywhere support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeQLSUgmGDs Live long and slaughter!
- One week until launch! - 19 February 2018
We're just one week away from launch LLAMA HYYYYYPE! If you're interested in hearing more details about the development and such, Matt did an interview with Xbox Players South Africa on Facebook. You can watch it here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/871726936292791/permalink/1207052369426911/ And finally, yes, I know this is Steam, but if you've got an Xbox (launching mid Match), we just announced Xbox Play Anywhere support: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeQLSUgmGDs Live long and slaughter!
- VALA finally gets a release date! - 21 December 2017
It's a Christmas miracle! OK, it isn't. I just got sick of friends joking that we were timing the release of VALA with Half-Life 3, so we decided to set the release date. So at long last, I present to you, the "holy sh**, this game is actually coming out!" trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI6EjUYvNfw Remember, share this with every person you know, and some you don't, or The Llamanati wins. And then if you haven't already, head over to the Steam store page and add VALA to your wishlist. You can also check out our website, and subscribe to the mailing list here.
- VALA finally gets a release date! - 21 December 2017
It's a Christmas miracle! OK, it isn't. I just got sick of friends joking that we were timing the release of VALA with Half-Life 3, so we decided to set the release date. So at long last, I present to you, the "holy sh**, this game is actually coming out!" trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI6EjUYvNfw Remember, share this with every person you know, and some you don't, or The Llamanati wins. And then if you haven't already, head over to the Steam store page and add VALA to your wishlist. You can also check out our website, and subscribe to the mailing list here.
- VALA Wallpapers - 22 November 2017
It has come to my attention that there are some sick, sick people in this world that want to stare at evil llamas being fed lead all day. I am one of those people. So to satisfy your thirst for blood, here are some wallpapers! They'll be the perfect fit on your Pentium 4 cubicle computer in your dead-end corporate job. With title: http://www.valagame.com/VALA_TitledHeroArt.png Without title: http://www.valagame.com/VALA_SuperHeroArt.png Let me know if you use them! Or don't - I'm not your supervisor.
- VALA Wallpapers - 22 November 2017
It has come to my attention that there are some sick, sick people in this world that want to stare at evil llamas being fed lead all day. I am one of those people. So to satisfy your thirst for blood, here are some wallpapers! They'll be the perfect fit on your Pentium 4 cubicle computer in your dead-end corporate job. With title: http://www.valagame.com/VALA_TitledHeroArt.png Without title: http://www.valagame.com/VALA_SuperHeroArt.png Let me know if you use them! Or don't - I'm not your supervisor.
- VALA at rAge 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa - 18 October 2017
Last weekend we took VALA to "South Africa’s biggest annual video gaming, computer, technology and geek culture exhibition", rAge. NAG played it and wrote up a short review thing of it: RogueCode – Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse Or VALA for short. It’s a twin-stick top-down shooter, where you pilot a quadrupedal mech to battle waves of attacking llamas with couch co-op for up to four players. That was probably the greatest sentence I’ve ever written in my life. The game itself was fast paced, gorgeous to look at, incredibly satisfying, and funny as hell. The gameplay was challenging but intuitive. The hordes of beasts could quickly became overwhelming, but the zany gameplay and co-op meant that you had a constant smile on your face. New weapon pickups could change your loadout, and the right choice of guns and powerups gave the game some strategic depth. It felt like one of the most co…
- VALA at rAge 2017 in Johannesburg, South Africa - 18 October 2017
Last weekend we took VALA to "South Africa’s biggest annual video gaming, computer, technology and geek culture exhibition", rAge. NAG played it and wrote up a short review thing of it: RogueCode – Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse Or VALA for short. It’s a twin-stick top-down shooter, where you pilot a quadrupedal mech to battle waves of attacking llamas with couch co-op for up to four players. That was probably the greatest sentence I’ve ever written in my life. The game itself was fast paced, gorgeous to look at, incredibly satisfying, and funny as hell. The gameplay was challenging but intuitive. The hordes of beasts could quickly became overwhelming, but the zany gameplay and co-op meant that you had a constant smile on your face. New weapon pickups could change your loadout, and the right choice of guns and powerups gave the game some strategic depth. It felt like one of the most co…
- VALA at EGE 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa - 4 August 2017
This past weekend we took Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse to the Electronic & Gaming Expo in Cape Town, South Africa! If you're interested in the game, and the story, checkout an interview we did (starts at 7:21) https://youtu.be/eNpihOKfZ3Q It was really awesome to watch hundreds of people loving the game, and asking where to shove their money. Over the 3 day expo: 130492 llamas were slaughtered 2721 streetlamps were destroyed $101,152,915 of damage was done to the world 512 players died, and then were revived by their friends (awww) It's a good time to mention that at any time you can disable the beautiful painstakingly perfected blood and gore that we spent months working on https://giant.gfycat.com/DistortedSpanishGoldenmantledgroundsquirrel.gif Here are some photos of happy people sitting on chairs Llamar the llama We also got to take Llamar out of his cage There was tons of cospla…
- VALA at EGE 2017 in Cape Town, South Africa - 4 August 2017
This past weekend we took Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse to the Electronic & Gaming Expo in Cape Town, South Africa! If you're interested in the game, and the story, checkout an interview we did (starts at 7:21) https://youtu.be/eNpihOKfZ3Q It was really awesome to watch hundreds of people loving the game, and asking where to shove their money. Over the 3 day expo: 130492 llamas were slaughtered 2721 streetlamps were destroyed $101,152,915 of damage was done to the world 512 players died, and then were revived by their friends (awww) It's a good time to mention that at any time you can disable the beautiful painstakingly perfected blood and gore that we spent months working on https://giant.gfycat.com/DistortedSpanishGoldenmantledgroundsquirrel.gif Here are some photos of happy people sitting on chairs Llamar the llama We also got to take Llamar out of his cage There was tons of cospla…
