VA-11 Hall-A is 4 years old today

Time flies.

4 years ago the game that changed our lives was released. We thought it was gonna sell a couple thousand copies and ended up becoming a smash hit with well over half a million units sold.

Over the years we’ve been pretty active, always finding a way to keep the game relevant; be with ports for different platforms, or the Daily Va11halla event every december and while I don’t think we’ll stop with this practice, I feel it’s time to “move on” – with this I mean we better start talking more about the future rather than just Valhalla.

The state of N1RV Ann-A

A lot has happened since the announcement of the new game in the franchise, but very few news. This was caused due to different circumstances, namely a continuation of a bad practice that began with Valhalla in which the programming relied solely on the shoulders of one person instead of a constant collaboration effort to build the game. The second is how life radically changed from one moment to the other. Something happened in Venezuela and we had to escape, making the team spread all over the world trying to start over on foreign soil – causing a dent in our mental health in the process. Development paused for a while due to these circumstances and only very recently picked up again with full steam. We are still trying to make the 2020 release window, but don’t be surprised if it gets pushed further into the future. The good news is that if it indeed gets delayed it won’t be by much, since our current workflow has never been so fast. We just ask for patience, this is the first time in years where we have a certain amount of stability in our lives to fully work on the stuff.

N1RV Ann-A is not the only thing coming soon

With a newfound way of working, knowledge, experience and an expanded team, we find ourselves in the perfect spot to handle more than one project and I’m happy to say more games will come from us – some might even release before N1rvanna, and I’m talking about full commercial projects too, from all kinds of genres.

I can’t offer solid information about what we are working on, but you can get a glimpse of the development of each of these projects in our daily devlog. It’s mostly me who writes these, but it’s a good way to gauge where we are at the moment.

Last but not least…

We are announcing that a sequel to VA-11 Hall-A: KIDS! is coming… In exactly a week, during Jill’s birthday! The name: VA-11 Hall-A SAISEI

A lot of people have clamored for a continuation of this joke spin-off we made for April Fool’s and we’ll be delivering soon on the 27th of this month, for free. We just hope there’s no weird files inside it this time. Well, this didn’t end up happening. Some extra time is needed to polish this, so please have some patience. Feel free to join discord and pester those involved with it about the release.

While the game was pretty much done content-wise, the programmer at the time was going through mental health hardships. Read more here. No idea if it’s gonna be finished…

Before we go, please go check the folks doing a VA-11 Hall-A FanZine! it’s full of cool stuff and we can’t wait to get our grubby mitts on those goods.

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