Top-Down, Twin-Stick, FMV-Infused, Action-Packed MADNESS!!!:

Booom-Slang! is a Garage-Indie Action Game with varying Play Modes (both Multi-Player and Single-Player) centered around hunting creeps, collecting treasure, trading in resources to obtain power-ups and competing in a myriad of different ways, while all being wrapped up in a FMV/Low-CG Hybrid Fever Dream.

Developed and Published by South African Solo-Dev, Tiaan Gerber (Skermunkel).

Overview:

Players are placed in creep-infested, boundary-shifting arenas, where they need to build up hunting points and collect treasure in order to afford different Power-Ups. In Multiplayer Modes, this gives Players multiple ways of competing against or with each other as well as diverse forms of achievements and challenges, in Single Player modes this will either serve as creative challenges for the Story Dungeon or interesting obstacles or tasks for each consecutive round in other Single Player modes.

Weapons:
With 5 weapons to choose from there is never a dull moment in a round of Booom-Slang! Whether it’s the Plasma Rifle for pinpoint accuracy and those deadly kill-shots, the Plasma Shotgun for those spots that just a little bit too crowded, the Plasma RPG when you like to ‘live dangerously’, the Plasma Sword to get up close and personal or the Plasma Grenade when you just feel like leaving someone a present 😉

Power-Ups:
Hunt Creeps for Points, Collect Treasure, Trade in Resources for Power-Ups, what could be more natural, circle of life! Protect your vulnerable bag of skin from things like Lava Pits and Rabid Wolf Bites with the Plasma Shield (yeah everything here is made of Plasma, its a great vague, I mean versatile piece of tech, what do you want us to do about it). Burn your enemies (or yourself, lol) with a conjurable Pit of Fire! Hop over those pesky high arena walls and barriers with the Rocket Jump or bring down judgement with a FRICKEN LIGHTNING STRIKE!!! Yeah!!!

Abilities:
Where would one be without Abilities? Truly one of the Universe’s most important questions. That’s why we gave ya a Teleporter, cause gee golly whizz it sure is neat watching your character zipping and zooming across the screen, ain’t it? Wait, who put that grenade there?… Oh yeah and who needs to, pfft, like ‘walk’ to things even, like I know right? That’s why we just had to strap a ridiculous Vacuum to your suit so you can bring those juicy boxes a bit closer a bit quicker and yank the loot from right under your opponents’ noses.

Premise:

In Booom-Slang! you take on the role of one many clones that is kept prisoner by a deranged mad man running a sadistic live death game. Where each clone needs to compete against other clones, hunting as much of the cloned wildlife, while collecting as much treasure in order to appease the evil showrunner’s ratings goals. See, I told you, Fever Dream level stuff…

History:

Development on Booom-Slang! began as a Rogue-lite Top-Down, Procedural Dungeon Concept in mid 2020, with the focus of blending low poly art, stark lighting styles and Animated FMV Sprite Cut-Outs in order to create a unique artistic look. 

Then, after struggling to find a unique hook and angle for the game, in late 2020, developer Tiaan Gerber played a few rounds of Overcooked 2 and got obsessed with adjusting the top down shooter gameplay of Booom-Slang! and develop it with a frantic but focused, 1-screen, Party Arena design approach.

After running with this concept the Eureka moment for Booom-Slang! was found and developer Tiaan Gerber created a playable test demo for the Steam Game Festival in February 2021.

The feedback received from the Steam Game Festival allowed Tiaan to identify the missing features and components in order to make the experience feel more fully fleshed out.

Following another few months of development and after adding more weapons, power-ups, features, playing modes and arenas to the title, Skermunkel released the Early Access version of the Booom-Slang! onto Steam on 17 September 2021.

Current and Future Plans:

Now, Tiaan and Skermunkel are hard at work in adding the remaining content in order to get the game ready for the Full Release as well as porting to consoles and mobile platforms.

The content and features that still need to be implemented into Booom-Slang! include the Cross-Platform Online Multiplayer Modes in development for the game, more Arenas, more Creep Types, a Resource Rewards Systems coupled with a “Build and Share your own Dungeon” feauture, character cosmetics and customizations and so much more.

We plan to complete the main development cycle with all the major feature updates by the end of 2022.