Beacon of Neyda - Post Apocalyptic Endless Base Defense

Beacon of Neyda gameplay with Splat! Let's Play Beacon of Neyda and check out a game where you'll build a base and defend it from endless hordes of murderous rusting robots.
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[@GhostCreativeStudio]

Thank you very much for showing the game, it gives us a lot of motivation to continue the work of making a good game. Thank you again!

[@armanheydari287]

very impressive game with great art keep up the good work😍

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

@Arman Heydari thanks!😁

[@cavetendobiggles1841]

Very cool. Got it wished. :)

[@elmoteroloco]

Se nota que pusieron mucho amor y dedicación en el demo. ¡Muy merecidas felicitaciones por el arte gráfico!

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

@@cavetendobiggles1841 Hey thanks! wishlists help a lot!

[@aSinisterKiid]

I love highly detailed pixel art like this. It's such an incredible skill for an artist to accomplish pixel art at a high level like this and I really admire it.

[@lucidnonsense942]

I'm going to ruin this for you... I'm sorry, ok. You make a model in blender, then you use a Photoshop plugin to convert it to the number of 2d sprites you want. Background art is just make picture, apply filter. The skill is putting it all together with parallax, palette, design language and a consistent theme.

[@creationzikaz4836]

Yeah, this isn't pixel art. Check out pixeljoint if you want to see pixelart, you'll familiarize yourself with the medium better. Game assets rarely use pure pixel art because it's too time consuming.

[@francodegano5058]

​@@lucidnonsense942 actually in this game never used model of blender, every sprite its hand maded

[@tryveliek7799]

@@lucidnonsense942 In a weird way, that almost makes it even cooler, as it means that small dev teams actually have a hope in hell of putting out stuff with this kind of aesthetic, which means we've got a greater chance of getting more of it.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

@@lucidnonsense942 yeah but this is hand made pixel art where we have full control we don't have to depend on any extra filter or plugin 😄

[@renegadeleader1]

This art style reminds me a lot of Moebius and Heavy Metal magazine. The game play while reminiscent of Kingdoms seems to be adding a layer of puzzle solving and Metroidvania as well with the exploration to find upgrades/tower parts. There is a ton of potential in this game.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

Thank you so much!

[@Qulize]

13:15 Yeah agreed. Not a fan of going back and forth picking stuff up. It's s going to be tedious real quick. The backpack having only 1 slot isn't helping either. Hope they'll find some ways to fix this. Other than that, love everything about this game. The settings, art, definitely on my wishlist.

[@legomacinnisinc]

I am continually amazed at the art assets of these "pre alpha" demos. The actual programing of this game probably didn't take more than a week or two to put together, but assets are really time consuming to make. I am impressed.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

Hey thanks, we're trying to come up with a good quality alpha. Regarding the programming, all the elements have their complexity, they were a couple more than just a couple of weeks, although it is true that the art took a long time.

[@legomacinnisinc]

​@@GhostCreativeStudio Oh? Now I'm curious now what's going on under the hood. I'm very much an amature in this field, only a few half baked prototypes of my own, but the core structure didn't strike me as particularly complicated, but that's probably my ignorance speaking. Regardless, the demo looks great, you should be proud of your work.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

@@legomacinnisinc Hey, thanks. Making the core structure look simple is the hard part hahaha, it has a modular design that allows us to expand the game and mechanics without much effort but that requires having the whole game structure in mind before even having the first lines of code.

[@legomacinnisinc]

@@GhostCreativeStudio ooooh yeah, that makes sense. I have tried my hand at that and oh yeah, your project planning has to be on point.

[@tank7737]

Fantastic game. Did anyone want to scream at Splat going DUDE!!! You need all of those blue nodes that you keep ignoring

[@quazimortal]

The Kingdom game series is one of my favorites so I'm really looking forward to this title. Thanks for posting this!

[@Galvaxatron]

I would probably never have heard of this game if it weren't for Splattercat. Kingdom Crown is a lot of fun so I will definitely check this one out.

[@CamoflagedTumbleweed]

26:33 Maybe you repair the tower to solar power the travel location and get to go to new locations. Sounds cool.

[@CamoflagedTumbleweed]

Definitely going on my wishlist. Love the graphics vibe and post apoc setting. Hopefully not too hectic running back and forth but I like the building, planning and exploration/discovery aspects I see.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

Thank you, one of the most difficult aspects of the game design is that it does not become tedious or boring to go and return from one point to another

[@SolantisA]

This looks absolutely wonderful! Edit: I'm tearing my hair out because he keeps leaving blue nodes laying on the floor just to go back and craft one 2 seconds later... and not clearing the "bugged" scrap piles...

[@jegnur]

lol he always does stuff like that with every game he plays, it's frustrating.

[@mr.lonewolf8199]

Loving this, minimalistic graphic but gameplay mechanic is very intriguing

[@Khorvalar]

"short wait time at the DMV" lol XD, Splatty, your ability to come up with jokes on the fly never ceases to entertain me! :D

[@Cuthawolf]

Really love the idea here, and the Aesthetic/Art is just amazing. Really looking forward to this one.

[@erictrauman2879]

simply awesome. and those robos look like mutated skitarii

[@dyingbreedRTS]

Visually Stunning! Love the Colors and the Art Style!

[@marcturmel924]

Kingdom 2 crown in SPACE! Has potential! Thanks Splatt

[@NegatveSpace]

While watching this I was thinking that there are a lot of side view scrollers like this and all it shows are two ends of a 360 degree arc. What if a developer divided a 360 degree area into say 8 sections and essentially be divided up into a pie. The character could move back and forth between two slices of the pie that are opposite of each other like this game is currently and be able to see what is going on in the two adjoining slices in the foreground and the background. Then the player could have a button for the character to move into one of the adjoining slices and the camera would kind of pan and follow the character as they move and the slice they were in would move into the background or foreground depending on which way they went. Since it might be a little confusing moving in a 3 dimensional space from a side view there could be visual ques on the ground showing how wide the slice is getting. In this way more buildings could be placed further out from the center of the base which would of course be in the center of the pie. Also when placing buildings such as towers if they are placed toward the edge of the pie they could partially shoot at enemies in the adjoining slice. And walls could require more resources the further out they are or require more sections the further out they are to be fully walled off and give the player design choices for how far out they want to build certain things at certain times.

[@Miners666]

Love the artwork and animations, kinda reminds me of old school animes. Though the player character design seems rather lacklustre somehow compared with everything else.

[@Wolfineer_]

Initially I thought it was just a really grungy Until We Die but making you the sole individual and surviving alone is an interesting twist, hopefully it doesn't become unwieldy with too much to do and no time the further along you get.

[@ameliamohsin8430]

I'm getting that Cowboy Bebop and Akira vibe with the artstyle.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

Although we had inspirations from various places Cowboy Bebop was definitely one of those places.😃

[@andregilhespy7504]

This looks amazing. I'll be eagerly awaiting it's release

[@StarlasAiko]

I am normally not into side-scrolling 2d base builders, and never liked any tower defense games of any sort...but this one looks not too bad

[@SoulWhite]

Oh wow, the tediousness of this game blew me away. It's like we have entered in to a portal and regressed back to all the unrefined chore like games from the 90's. Nothing I love more like carrying one item slowly to the far side of the map. Oh and that awesome elevator animation that takes 3 seconds to move one floor, absolutely mind blowing design ideas.

[@orange7493]

You didn't get enough love huh. If it's not for you, then just move on. No need to show your "refined" sarcasm here bub.

[@SoulWhite]

@@orange7493 Maybe if less people said only positive things we would have better game designers...

[@UtopssAKAPJ]

"take all of the goooodies" 🤣

[@pryce4917]

This game looks beautiful.

[@T.R.75]

interesting game. like the art. good vid Splatt.

[@EzekielHateable]

Great video as always.

[@casualdanattempts]

This has a great art style, I love the spookiness levels of the robots.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

Thanks! our artist is very happy with his results

[@RafaelCabreraAzrael]

this looks PRETTY GOOD!

[@brigandboy1425]

This looks really good. Things need to be tightened up, but this has a lot of promise.

[@nanotiger4056]

So this is Until We Die, but with robots. Hope it will have better future...

[@SolPhantasmagoria]

_And Until we Die is basically Two Kingdoms, and League of Legends is basically DOTA, and Fortnite is basically PUBG._

[@SomethingEls]

Working or not, that drone's a cute little guy

[@alexisguzman296]

Shows alot of promise for a pre alpha.. keep at it

[@sharkforce8147]

I think they might have wanted you to build a drone hub, just maybe. Not like they gave you a dozen parts for it or anything though =S

[@ryanmarks2929]

Yea I dig this!! Could definitely be really good game with some more love ❤️

[@msolomonii9825]

I like the graphics style!, very nice!

[@Rolemaster]

Beautiful art

[@thundreturtle]

the art in the game is awesome!

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

Thank you very much, at the end of last year when we started showing more of the game we won two events for best art 😄

[@thundreturtle]

@@GhostCreativeStudio from what can be seen totally deserved! Good job! :D

[@briscoelcamino7850]

Cool. Lots of potential.

[@ibnearabi3640]

Looks good.

[@Adam_Lynn]

Looking forward to this.

[@Alexandragon1]

Thx for the video!

[@ricardodevilee5078]

Amazing art direction. I've seen steam games released as "finished" that weren't as good as this pre-alpha demo

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

😃Thanks!

[@VIP-ry6vv]

Looks good, I'd play it.

[@idunwantafreakinchan]

looks good

[@Emanemoston]

Thanks for the video.

[@razorka1293]

looks cool

[@nikodimus86]

Definitely interested because of the pixel art. The gameplay is a copy of Kingdom: Two crowns with some differences. Not sure if I like that part. Also, unsure if the story is on the level of a placeholder or a mysterybox with no payoff in the end. There has been too many mystery boxes with little or no payoff in recent years.

[@bodobagger38]

that graphic style is awesome.

[@Hawkido]

Should have been called Bacons of Neyda... Would have been better, as everything is better with BaCoN!

[@Xammblu_Games]

Didn't grab my glasses, I read Bacon of Neyda. Clicked the link so GD fast.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

@Joshua David it happens to us too😂

[@ezequielblanco8659]

I agree that the art looks amazing. However, it's so early in dev that it's hard to tell how much content and playability there'll be.

[@maximus5668]

TA RE GUENOOO LOCOOO!!!

[@grzesiek9229]

Nice pixelart

[@samuraile6625]

Wow, all round looks really good. Could you imagine that gentleman in game its you. Fighting every day to survive and when I look on my enemy....This is Terrifying if you really imagine that now is the thought more possible in near future.

[@boone7777777777]

This reminds me of until we die

[@Notrelevanthere]

I disagree with the cleaning up the animation when looting. I want my virtual homie able to dance his happy scrap dance when he's done murdering the deranged robot hordes.

[@Terminarch]

Build time on the big tower looks extreme. Much better to speed it up and have a time dilation effect or something. The problem with Kingdom style games is that they don't have much replayability. There's nothing really driving you to the end either, because you've seen pretty much the entirety of content within 10 minutes. They will typically either hide content with RNG (Kingdom specialists) or obfuscate mechanics to make a sense of mystery and unpredictability (also Kingdom).

[@robertbensch7748]

I really like the style, but I can´t shake the feeling that it makes stuff purposefully complex, which so many other games already made simple. I, personally, don´t feel like playing something like a tower defense where I have to fight the game mechanics more than the enemies I´m supposed to keep away. But as you said, it´s really early. Who knows which turns the game will take until it´s even in Beta.

[@AniSepherd972]

love pixel arts

[@tengu190]

Do a full LP of this demo!

[@Animegypsy]

You should do one more of this

[@mariovarga2892]

a could've watched a few more hours of this :B

[@ombra711]

Kingdom was unfun to me, liking how straight to the action this is

[@ATZag135]

ThankYou SirSpla77

[@IRMentat]

Not a fan of item based building unless I can haul a wheelbarrow/mount/multi-item backpack around, or at the least have something deliver said item to a selected build site automatically, preferably all of the above. otherwise, art looks great, general premise is ok, kingdom based has me a bit nervous as i found a lot of that game to be tedious but it's an okayish foundation to expand upon.

[@slyfoxkgar]

note to actually download I had to install the Itch app, and since I added it to my collection, was then able to download it and play the demo. or not.. having some issue installing. so if anyone figures it out post it.. looks like a great game

[@zenstrata]

so this is basically a variation on the game 'Kingdom'.

[@Time4CakeAndSodomy]

Really like the aesthetic, reminds me a bit of flashback. I'm just not really a fan of these style of games.

[@foobarbazbaa5598]

Big oof, art style looks amazing. Even without knowing anything about the gameplay this is one I'm going to be watching.

[@me36391]

Looks like a 2d version of Death trash with the colors.

[@airekofvinlandslayerofthes7965]

Will you play Dark and Darker (if you haven't) this Steam Fest?? Its multiplayer and I dunno if thats your kind of thing

[@manegarrincha1751]

Argentine industry game!

[@LuisEdGm]

How to make Splat check your game: make it post apocalyptic

[@mbielcik]

🖤

[@ciupaca9576]

wow it s a great game is it demo?

[@ivanjeh4493]

Splat's Condensed Review: 31:56

[@mrshrekles]

Bacon of Nevada

[@gubbish]

Dry, dusty bacon.

[@matthewedwards6454]

For the algorithm!

[@northerstephens6911]

Love it, /first

[@loucipher67]

couldn't take my eyes off the cursor

[@playingcasually]

Are these Tesla coils? Lasers would need some sort of focusing lens and wouldn't need dangerous levels of exposed lightning arcs

[@chubbyanemone696]

Play Dwarf Fortress!

[@mrrangard]

Early Squad

[@LowHangingFruitForest]

If only it was multiplayer…

[@Arsenov92]

I know a different kind of Rogue Warrior game...

[@theforce5191]

What is this, the early 90's?

[@bgiv2010]

Does the gun have infinity ammo? I thought it might use scrap.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

Yes, at the time of this first pre alpha the ammunition is infinite but in future versions the ammunition will be handled in a different way, apart from adding different types of weapons including even some special ones

[@djavulkai]

I feel like I am missing where to download the demo. Its linked in the description, but I cannot find it.

[@djavulkai]

Nope, nvm, found on the Discord that Splat had access to a pre-alpha. The demo will be coming along later.

[@heneryslayzack1271]

undecember

[@galaktuss]

cant find a dowloadson buton on ichi or steam for a demo :(

[@jagojuice9133]

looks slow and tedius currently. slow running/1 inv slot brutal.

[@GhostCreativeStudio]

In the pre alpha you can see a first solution, the energetic boots that allow the player to move faster inside the base Other solutions such as vehicles to increase movement and fast travel areas are designed for different levels and it is something that we have thought a lot about. Something similar happens with the space of the backpack that can be expanded in other levels through different ways, one of them is a companion drone.

[@aussiespringbok8504]

I was super interested in the game, then found out it's 2023 and theyre still making PC games without mouse support, and lost all interest for the game, nice video though, cheers.

[@evilsourkraut4866]

Obligatory comment to appease the Almighty Algorithm.

[@sevex9]

First?

[@aldusric]

Horrible pixel design, and poor animation. This is an awful clone of Until We Die game (better animations, story, and gameplay)

[@bdleo300]

Reminds me of Deadlight...