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[Jadawin]

Hello Community,

The release of the AddOn - The Desert for my epic farm and role-playing game Behind the Horizon is now getting closer. The date of early April now seems very realistic.

Reason enough to present you my first trailer for the AddOn: 





You can find the shop page with screenshots and information about the AddOn here on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1937410/Behind_the_Horizon__The_Desert/?beta=0

[Jadawin]

Hello Community,

the time has come: Behind the Horizon - The Desert, the first add-on with over 50 hours of game play, has been completed and is ready for download :-) !

Hightlights:

- Explore new vast territories
- Master the art of surviving in the desert
- Experience a new exciting main story in 4 chapters (playing time well over 50h)
- Find new friends
- Face the demons again
- Pursue numerous side quests
- Build on your relationships from the main game
- Get company on your farm
- Learn many new crafting plans and new spells
- Build and use many new items

You can find more information, a trailer and screenshots on my Steam shop page, and of course you can buy my game and the add-on there.

My shop page on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1453430?beta=0
Shop page of the AddOn: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1937410/Behind_the_Horizon__The_Desert/?beta=0

I hope you enjoy the new episode of Behind the Horizon and wish you all a lot of fun exploring the new areas!

Jadawin

[Jadawin]

Hello Community,

now my Game Behind the Horizon is almost 2 years on Steam and there is a small :-( , enthusiastic :-) community of players and the first DLC AddOn is already online.

Since marketing seems to be the main work in game development nowadays - if only I had known that before ;-) I am more busy with it than with developing the second AddOn !

Fact is: I really have difficulties to make my game known to the world as a micro budget solo developer.

Since I still believe that Behind the Horizon deserves a lot more attention, I've decided to start a little giveaway and offer some keys to you.
The only condition is that you actually play the game and if you like it you may write me a friendly review on Steam later!
Since the number of reviews also influences the algorithm where and when a game appears on Steam and I still have far too few of them, you could help me a lot.

If you want to take part, please write to me here in the forum.

Jadawin


On my Steamshop page you can find more information, a trailer and screenshots.

Shop Page on Steam:   https://store.steampowered.com/app/1453430?beta=0
English Trailer V1.55 -

[Jadawin]

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Hello Community

For the Steam Autumn Sale Event, I'm offering my extensive RPG Farm game with a whopping 50% discount for a short time!
100+ hours of story, numerous side quest series, crafting, magic, romance and lots of exciting battles in a 100% handcrafted and varied huge living world. And all that without grinding and without constantly repeating quests.

So if you loved StardewValley but wished for more story and depth, Behind the Horizon is absolutely right for you!

Jadawin

PS: By the way, the AddOn is also available with a small discount!

Steamshoppage:   https://store.steampowered.com/app/1453430?beta=0
Homepage: https://www.jadawinindiegames.de

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[Jadawin]

Hello Community,


time flies and not only when you play Behind the Horizon ;-) !

At the moment I am preparing the second AddOn, as the story will find its ending there.


In the first AddOn - The Desert, a new climate zone was introduced and overall the part of the AddOn that played in the desert was more difficult and towards survival.


In the next AddOn, the main world, as well as your own farm that you have built up, will again play a more central role, although there will of course also be new unknown areas. The story, of course, revolves around the "Master" and two people stranded in the world. More will not be revealed here ;-) !


Besides the development of the AddOn, I am continuing to expand my community, which is still difficult. Maybe one or the other has a tip for me?


Unfortunately, I have so far been denied access to the testers of the big games magazines, which may be due to the fact that my game is almost unknown. So the snake bites its own tail ;-) !


Many small Youtubers who love indie games, especially farm games, and take a closer look at my game are completely surprised that they haven't heard of Behind the Horizon before.  In the meantime, there are also some Let's plays on Youtube that are already further advanced in the game.

However, when I see how much attention 7 year old titles like Stardew still get, I wonder what these developers are doing differently. I would even go so far as to say that at least a third of all Stardew players would love Behind the Horizon -- if they knew that it exists  ;-)  !


On that note, I'm grateful for any help :-)
Jadawin

[Jadawin]

Hello Community,


the next big update of Behind the Horizon is now online at Steam and at Itch! In addition, there will also be a discount at the weekend at Itch!

Besides many new features and optimizations, the update finally brings controller support to the world of Behind the Horizon :-) !


Here is the link to my shop page at Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1453430?beta=0

My shop page at itch.io: https://jadawin1.itch.io/behind-the-horizon

[Jadawin]

Hello Community,

Once again Behind the Horizon has received a major update. This time I have finally introduced the achievements and stats that many have been asking for. In addition, the game now has auto cloud support.

In addition, I have further optimised the controller operation, which is now even more intuitive and simple.

First tests on the SteamDeck are coming soon, so you will be able to play Behind the Horizon mobile on the SteamDeck soon.

Here is the link to my shop page at Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1453430?beta=0

[Jadawin]

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.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2491090/HintermHorizont__Die_Himmelsfeste/?beta=0

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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.

[Jadawin]

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.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2491090/HintermHorizont__Die_Himmelsfeste/?beta=0

You can also watch the trailer for the DLC here:

 




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

Jadawin

[Jadawin]

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

[Jadawin]

Update V3.3 is live!

Highlights:
Two new starting maps with new challenges
Introduction of survival mode for experienced players with numerous gameplay changes for a much more challenging game.

Plus a long list of optimizations and small improvements.

Here you can see all the details and of course buy the game :-) !

 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1453430?beta=0