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 complete games at the home_coded stand, and it was just stupid amounts of fun. VALA launches this year on Steam and XBO.
Yes, we hung Llamar.
As with previous expo's, we got a lot of good feedback, found some bugs, and I even had a kid literally trying to shove money into my hands after I explained a few of the costs that went into game dev. That was...weird.
If you played it at rAge, I hope you enjoyed it!