The Beyond - Indie Horror

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share with you all my next project! It is called The Beyond. It will be a sidescrolling horror in the vein of Clocktower and Silent Hill. The focus will be more psychological horror than jumpscares.
The game will soon come to Steam Greenlight and Kickstarter once I have a solid enough demo that I feel will be a good representation.




-----The game is inspired, and based upon the REAL-LIFE location of the Aokigahara Forest in Japan-----

SYNOPSIS:
Welcome to Walker's Chapel. A once thriving community, now abandoned. Every year, over 100 corpses are found within city limits by authorities, believed to have been suicides.
You have come to Walker's Chapel to find your final resting place. But the evil that dwells within this town has found you first.

TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQXRkbv3xJg

Artwork looks great. Very stylised... well done.

Thanks very much Ryan!

I just listed The Beyond on indiedb.com and it has risen to #232 out of over 18,000 games.

I want to thank everyone who has looked at this thread and trailer. Hopefully it will be a good, well known example of what Fusion is capable of.

If any are interested in the indiedb page it can be found here - http://www.indiedb.com/games/the-beyond

Yes, I noticed the clock tower influencethrough the trailer as well!

All this looks good.

Is this point and click or full roaming 3D?

It will be a fully controlled side scroller. Think of Silent Hill without weapons in a 2d plane.

New enemy type - the Mantis.

The Beyond has currently hit #32 in Indiedb.com!
The IndieDB page has been updated with a brand new enemy concept art that will be in the upcoming demo.
Check it out here:
http://www.indiedb.com/games/the-beyond

The artwork is incredible! I'm looking forward to this already!

Man that freaking lady with the long spinal-cord neck is going to give me nightmares....

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Originally Posted by piscesdreams

New enemy type - the Mantis.

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My long-lost brother... I have found you at last! :) So you're making this in Unity, or something? Or are these concept pictures and you'll going to make the game with pre-rendered backgrounds/cutscenes? It is very impressive.

Haha, I actually thought of you when I designed the enemy. I initially was shooting for a spider but I realized 8 legs will be difficult to animate. So I removed 4 legs and realized it looked more akin to a mantis than a spider. I am actually going to add scythe like blades on its arms.

I am building in Fusion. It is all prerendered concept art, but the final game assets will look like this - just on a 2d side-scrolling plane. Think of Clock Tower on snes.

I chose pre rendered because I cannot sprite or draw to save my life. LoL

I am not ready to reveal the gameplay as it is still in development, but I hope to have the playable demo, alongside Steam greenlight and a Kickstarter campaign by Christmas.

The game is going to be focused on story and atmosphere mostly. I have always preached horror needs to be about these moreso than gameplay.

Indeed, I'm sure you're aware that a mantis has four legs to support most of its body weight and two frontal legs essentially used as arms, but are shaped similarly to your monster's arms. I know how you feel about the artwork. I'd be more experienced if I stayed at university for longer, but I was getting pretty good at working with 3ds Max despite never having any art skill. You've done a great job, though. :) For the record, I love games that use pre-rendered art. (Most of my praise goes to many PS1 games that do this.) I think you did mention Clock Tower once. (I'm making a note to play that.)

I look forward to a possible early Christmas present, then! I also agree about the atmosphere. Probably why I preferred Silent Hill to Resident Evil.

Yeah, I wanted to be a bit more anatomically correct, but for sake of sanity during animation I cut it down. It earned the name more so from it's resemblance than anatomy.
I agree, pre-rendered graphics has always served a purpose and is underrated. The Resident Evil remake on Gamecube is one of the most beautiful games ever made, even still to this day. (and an HD remake coming, yes!)

I have always loved RE and SH about equally, for different reasons. RE is great B movie horror vibes that satisfies my cheese factor. But SH is actually pretty terrifying at times.
Hopefully, I can knock a few kings off of their thrones in terms of sheer terror.

looks fantastic mate

Thank you!

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An early, unfinished look at the inventory screen.

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Here is the first in-game screenshot during the pre-alpha stage!

A new look at the improved atmosphere system. Lots and lots of filters running here.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c9...ds/image-1.jpg