VALA: Alpha
Hey there. I wanted to share the game we've been working on. It is called Vicious Attack Llama Apocalypse: Alpha, and was funded by AppCampus (so is exclusive to WP8 for 3 months).
"We" is Renier Van Der Westhuizen (from Luma) and myself (Matt Cavanagh). Peter Cardwell-Gardner also helped massively to get the project up, and has now moved onto Cadence.
VALA is a top-down 3D shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world. You're a mech and need to fight of waves of llamas. It also has some tower-defense characteristics - you can build and upgrade towers to help/protect you. They are: slow, shield, sentry, health. Each one (except sentry) drops packs which you collect and store for use.
Currently it only has a very basic survival mode. The game is in a very early stage (partly why the name is VALA: Alpha), and we are working on making it more addictive, rewarding, and fun.
The reception has been really good. It got tons of comments over on the WPCentral post: http://www.wpcentral.com/save-world-llamas-new-3d-shooter-vala-windows-phone
And the average rating in the store is 4/5 (Generally people either rate it 1* for not having enough content, or 5*).
In the first 4 days it got just over 18,000 downloads.
I'd love to know what you guys think. Here is the WP8 link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-za/store/app/vala-alpha/d23fe3c1-4a3f-4dc8-a0da-9fb691c89c37
"We" is Renier Van Der Westhuizen (from Luma) and myself (Matt Cavanagh). Peter Cardwell-Gardner also helped massively to get the project up, and has now moved onto Cadence.
VALA is a top-down 3D shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world. You're a mech and need to fight of waves of llamas. It also has some tower-defense characteristics - you can build and upgrade towers to help/protect you. They are: slow, shield, sentry, health. Each one (except sentry) drops packs which you collect and store for use.
Currently it only has a very basic survival mode. The game is in a very early stage (partly why the name is VALA: Alpha), and we are working on making it more addictive, rewarding, and fun.
The reception has been really good. It got tons of comments over on the WPCentral post: http://www.wpcentral.com/save-world-llamas-new-3d-shooter-vala-windows-phone
And the average rating in the store is 4/5 (Generally people either rate it 1* for not having enough content, or 5*).
In the first 4 days it got just over 18,000 downloads.
I'd love to know what you guys think. Here is the WP8 link: http://www.windowsphone.com/en-za/store/app/vala-alpha/d23fe3c1-4a3f-4dc8-a0da-9fb691c89c37
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It broke the 50k download mark in 14 days :-)
Also just pushed a new update to make it work better on low-memory devices (it was crashing like 1.8k times per day, seriously).
The next updates will roughly be based on this list:
-MOGA controller support
-Better llama variations with individual personalities and abilities
-Various weapons
-Powerups (these are different to the ones generated from towers)
-Badges/Achievements which lead to unlocks
As most of you probably don't have Windows Phones, here is a quick video of the game-play (UI removed):
Great to see progress made. The game sounds and looks great already. It has come a long way since the video I saw on YouTube a year ago.
The downloads you are getting already is very interesting and inspiring. I - must - code - faster... :) Thanks for sharing.
Yeah, been through lots of iterations to get here.