Since people often say we’re not transparent despite me writing almost daily in our dev log site, and baring our souls naked in heart-wrenching blog posts, I’ll do an honest-to-god attempt at getting folks up to speed with what we’re doing.
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Hell yeah!
This game changed the lives of a bunch of people all over the world, gave this team an audience and all the cool things needed to make more games in the future. For that, we will forever be grateful.
Not gonna lie, I’m not good with anniversaries. Doesn’t help I’m way too excited about our current projects to reminisce too much about Va11halla, but I still love it to bits. I love your fan art, the experiences you tell us via email, literally anything you do with our lil’ game is blessed because it was made from a place of love.
I’m still disappointed I couldn’t achieve my goal of a new cool game every two years after Va11halla, but that’s alright. Shit happened, lots of it, but as long as I’m alive I’ll be able to learn and improve as much as I need to make that possible. Too many ideas, too many characters, too many stories that need to be told and I’ll do my best to make all of them happen!
Let’s fill this world with badass cuties!
While we didn’t exactly plan anything special for this anniversary (again, I’m not good with those), Garoad (the man behind the God Tier soundtrack) along with fabulous artist Aurahack and Black Screen Records have prepared a very special full release of the game’s music in Vinyl. Features every song in the game plus extras and goodies. Just look at that beautiful artwork. Jesus Christ.
I’m sure it’s gonna be gone by the time you read this, but here it is anyway.
Now I’m back to work. Games need to be made.
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.
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.
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.
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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