Behind the Horizon

[Jadawin1]

Hello Community,

The work on the DLC The Sky Fortress is now finished and I will use the rest of the time until the release at the beginning of September for extensive test play.

If you want to find out more, you can already take a look at the DLC shop page. There you will find a lot of details.

Behind the Horizon - The Sky Fortress on Steam

Expands the game Behind the Horizon with a new exciting main story, many new areas, items, spells, new pets and plants ! - A farm RPG in a nature simulation that keeps changing the world. Dive into a new adventure! BtH-The Sky Fortress awaits you...

store.steampowered.com

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After finishing the DLC, and also because the triology of the main story is now completed, I have compiled some data about my game project. I think I shouldn't keep this from you. I'm sure it will be interesting for some of you to find out what Behind the Horizon is all about:

Development time (at the moment): about 7 years
Lines of code (C++): > 156000 - yes, that's really a lot ;-)

NPCs (all with their own seasonal daily routine and personal history): 74
monsters: 82
BossMonsters: 26
Animals: 18
Farm animals: 9
Pets: 6

Dialogue texts of the NPCs: 663535 characters (no I didn't count that myself ;-) ) - that's about 375 book pages

Script cutscenes: 250

Texts for cutscenes: 190562 characters or about 120 book pages

Quests in total: 614 - I didn't count the characters for quest texts

Equipment items in the game: 137
Plants (all with growth cycles): 61
Ground cover: 14
Tree species: 24
Soil types: 41

Books: 183 - again, I didn't have the character set counted, but there are a lot!

Teleporters: 20
Recipes(Food): 65
Plans(Building): 146
Formulas(Spells): 65

Spells: 65

Graphics: 1288 128pxx128px tiles
2801 64pxx64px tiles
- which of course must all have their own definition structure in the game.

Overlay backgrounds 7

Steam achievements: 100

So that's it ;-) ! Maybe this gives some of you an overview of how big an extensive RPG is. If I had known beforehand how big the game would be, I probably wouldn't have started it. But this way, passion and joy about what I have achieved have driven me on and on.

 

[JFarrell71]

Congrats on finishing!

 

[Jadawin1]

Congrats on finishing!

Thanks! It have been a long road.. !

 

[Jadawin1]

Hello Community,

the time has come: The new DLC - Behind the Horizon "The Sky Fortress" is available for everyone today!

In addition to a large patch, which is accessible to all players for free and adds new exciting content such as jumping, the DLC will tell the main story to the end in another 4 chapters (50++ game hours). This completes the epic triology.

In addition, as always, there are many new mechnanics, new NPCs, two combat companions that can also be trained and used in the main game, new recipes, new plants and much more.

Click here to go to the shop page, where you can see all the new features in detail and of course also buy the DLC ! Even if you haven't finished the DLC "The Desert" yet, or are still at the very beginning, "The Sky Fortress" is worthwhile, as there is also a lot of additional content for the main game.

Behind the Horizon - The Sky Fortress on Steam

Expands the game Behind the Horizon with a new exciting main story, many new areas, items, spells, new pets and plants ! - A farm RPG in a nature simulation that keeps changing the world. Dive into a new adventure! BtH-The Sky Fortress awaits you...

store.steampowered.com

You can also watch the trailer for the DLC here:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKlO7Cn9rrU



Enjoy the game and if you like it, please write a review on Steam ! For suggestions and problems there is the community area!

Jadawin

 

[Jadawin1]

Hello Community,

Behind the Horizon now has 2 big story DLCs and also in terms of optimisation and simplification a lot has happened in the last few months.

As the big autumn sales are currently taking place, I wanted to draw your attention to my game once again !

- If you want a farm game that doesn't do all the thinking for you and is instead based on a world-spanning nature simulation that challenges you..
- If you are tired of the fact that playing games today often means pressing buttons that are displayed in the right order on the screen..
- If you enjoy designing a farm completely freely and utilising the diverse mechanisms offered by the nature simulation...
- If you like games that offer you an interesting story instead of grinding...
- If you like role-playing games in which you can develop in a wide variety of ways..
- If you love exciting battles in the style of the old Diablos games...
- If you would rather play in a large, 100% hand-crafted world than in an infinite number of worlds created by algorithms that are meaningless and boring..
- If the scope of the story in the game of around 100 hours of gameplay excites you..
- And finally: If you want to support a real 100% solo developer, without any publisher ..

...then Behind the Horizon is the game for you!

You can find out more here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1453430?beta=0

 

[Jadawin1]

Update V3.2 - "Seasons Events" is now online!

Thanks to a significant extension of my scripting language for cutscenes, it is now possible to interact with the game within the cutscenes.

The update adds 4 thematically different auctions to the game, which are organised by different NPCs and where you can bid on different items every year. So you can get yourself a bargain !

In the next content updates, further events will follow that utilise the new possibilities.