LAYSARA - Enormous Mountaintop Kingdom Builder 

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Building on a mountain means that every building sits on a slope. So if they wanted to allow you to rotate buildings, they would require 4 different models for each variant of each building, and then more for clumping. That's a lot of extra work for an indie dev

What you explained about the mandala was actually Rangoli. Basically making art with powder. But mandala is basically an art style which is basically done in a circular repeating patterns. Love watching your video everyday. Have a great day ahead

What I do for Eggs in a Basket: 1. Take a circular lid from one of your spice jars (something in your kitchen will work) and press out a little hole in the middle of the slice of bread. Butter the bread _on one side_ more than you think is appropriate (trust me). 2. Put the burner on low/med-low and put both parts of the buttered bread in the pan. _Carefully_ crack the egg into the hole in the center. Cook for like.. 3 minutes. 2a. I usually don't let the pan heat up all the way before I put the stuff in. That way, the egg has time to heat up gradually along with the bread. This helps prevent the bread from burning before the egg has time to finish cooking. 2b. Cover pan for 30 seconds if you want the egg a little more done in the middle, but it's not strictly necessary. 2c. At the end, you can also flip it *very carefully* (using 2 spatulas helps) and cook on the other side for about 10-20 seconds; that finishes up the less done egg on top perfectly for an over-easy style egg! 3. Salt + pepper + maybe hot sauce 4. At the end you can use the little circle toastyboi from step 1 to soak up any tasty egg yolks that may have ended up on the plate 🤗

I've lived in the little Himalayas for a long time, this game really excites me and one thing I remembered is that rarely you'll see any house facing the mountains, also all the old houses were very similar in design but very unique, even the roads were unique, organic and winding

It's called a Weather Vane. (Wind chicken thing)

You had me at "it's got some colony survival elements, but it's actually more of a city builder." There are so few city builders among the sea of Banished clones these days.

30:03 Reminds me of what I called the real life Barad-dûr, the copper smelting stack just outside Anaconda, Montana. First time I saw it was in 2006. It was a single, dingy brick chimney that had a massive field of slag around it that turned many acres into a flat black plain. Now it's a superfund site and they're reprocessing the slag into sandblasting and roofing material, so Mordor is slowly disappearing.

When I was in college, the Dalai Lama came to give a speech and there was a Tibetan art exhibition at the museum that included a group of monks making a sand mandala. I got to watch them build it, then wipe it away and pour the sand into the ocean. Sand mandalas are part of Tibetan Buddhism and they do represent impermanence and nonattachment, but mandala paintings are common in Hinduism and other forms of Buddhism. They're geometric patterns that represent deities or a spiritual journey and are used to focus a meditation.

Normally for an eggie in a basket you cut the bread, fry it with butter, then crack the egg into the middle. It cooks into the bread and becomes one piece you can eat like a piece of toast. I always make mine over medium so it's jammy and coats the toast without dripping. You can use a glass to cut the hole. Nice and easy.

Egg in a basket or Hobo egg, is a dish consisting of a slice of bread with an egg in the middle, fried with butter. It is prepared by cutting a circular or square hole in the center of a piece of bread, which is buttered. The bread is fried in a pan with butter or other fat. At some point, an egg is cracked into the hole in the bread. I will put a fat slab of butter in the middle of the hole so it makes a little butter bath that the egg will fry in. You also fry up the little part of bread you cut out so you can dip it in the egg yolk while you're eating.

I suspect they don't allow you to rotate buildings because the land you build on is a slope. They have designed all the models to nestle into the side of the hill, so they'd have to make a second, entirely new model for each building to allow you to rotate them 90 degrees.

The spinny cross thing with North/South is called a weather vane. I'm in Australia, and I also call the handles in the car "Oh, shit" handles. And, Yak Shack sounds too much like Vomit Hut. =P

For anyone curious about what a Mandala is. Mandala are specific circular patterned artistic forms that also hold meaning for certain spiritualist beliefs and practices. And they were also used as a sort of road map for towns and cities at one time.

A chicken with like a windy spiny thing... Like a wind sock. This is why I love watching your videos

It would be interesting if clumped buildings could "share" a road. Meaning if you have two clumped farms but only one has a road touching it, both get the road benefit.

"It's got a road system, so if you don't like games with road systems, you might not like the road system aspect of the game." this is the commentary I come here for.

intriguing setting for a kingdom/city builder. Definite one to keep an eye on

No, No, No. You take a slice of bread and fold it lightly in half, then take a bite out of the middle, then melt butter in a frying pan and place the unfolded bread with the hole in the center in the pan, then crack a raw egg into the hole you made in the bread and lightly salt and pepper it, wait for the bread's pan side down to become nice and golden brown, then flip the bread with the egg in the hole in the middle to cook the uncooked side, then once it's a nice golden toasty brown, take it out of the pan and let it cool for a second or two before devouring said eggy, toasty goodness. You can of course slather it with jam, jelly, syrup or whatever your little heart desires before eating your delicious eggy creation. This is called a birds nest in some parts of the world. Give it a try Splatty I promise you're going to love it...

Always love a unique city builder!

i really love the sound track for this

I like that the identical residential buildings next to each other look slightly different. Much more realistic look.

This game is gorgeous, especially the start menu, that background screen, the mountain is beautiful, you can really feel the Far Cry 4 summit vibe 👌👌👌

Thanks for recognizing that some of us kind of despise road centric city/colony builders. I found myself quickly hyped up at the visuals in the intro, but that hype immediately plummeted when roads were mentioned. Thanks for the vid all the same boss.

So two things I wanted to cover: aren't the metal roosters on rooftops called weathervanes? Also, the hypothetical Yak Shack eatery could just be a play on words for talking a lot; maybe that means it's intended as a place for very social meal gatherings. `.` Otherwise, they'll have a yak mascot that actually talks, so it'll be a novelty style eatery with a tourist attraction.

The picture you showed wasn't that of a Yak, it was that of a Scottish highlander cow, which are also adorable.

Gotta say, the mountain is absolutely beautiful. 🤩

"kinda like a wind sock but not as floppy" Best description of a weather vane ever 😂 And growing up on a farm in a fishing community who's grandfather owned a bakery ruined me for constant disappointment when it comes to food 🤦 Not even store bought milk is "proper" milk. Milk so fresh it's still warm from the cow it came out of over even something as basic as cornflakes is amazing 😊

This game reminds me heavily of Pharaoh, a city-building game based in Ancient Egpyt from 1999. It was kind of rudimentary but super atmospheric.

Thanks for the baby yak pic. I approve of cute fuzzy animals.

Super chill Mountain builder where tomb raiders come every now and then to raid your sanctuary... hence the need for machine guns and winged suits to protect yourself. Sounds legit

Thanks for everything you do for the indie game community.

That do be what Buddhists do with sand mandalas. I think that it's called the dissolution, or at least what it was referred to when I went to see them. So I was looking it up after you said that. There are two core ideas with a mandala (from what I'm seeing in my dictionary). There's a geometric display, symbolizing the universe, then there's it being emblematic of unifying the self.

9:45 think those are called weathervanes. Game looks good only gripes is the lack of building rotation (at least on the large buildings) and the short transport ranges. edit: That's what I get for commenting before finishing the whole vid, he makes the same point.

If you take my advice, you will be glad that you did. The proper way to make an eggy in a basket is to butter both sides of the bread, but don't toast it first, then use a cup or something with a medium to small diameter and use it to cut a circle into the center of the bread and remove the round from said center of bread. You then place the bread into a heated pan and crack an egg into the hole you created in the bread. You then proceed to season the top side before flipping ad tasting the second side while you season the other side. You can fry up the little bread rounds you removed at the same time for a like bready snack. Once the other side of your bread is cooked, flip it once more just to toast the seasoning into the second side of the bread before removing it from the pan and subsequently devouring the miracle meal that IS the eggy in the mother effin basket! You're welcome!

The meaning of "decimate" is: to separate into tenths, e.g. make ten equal pieces. It comes from the Latin prefix "deci-" and originally referred to dividing military formations into powers of ten (1000 > 100 > ten > one); ten men (called a decade) being the optimal wedge shaped formation for breaking enemy lines and defending from all sides against cavalry. When a decade was broken, it was considered decimated. Hitting any pins in a single frame while bowling is a proper modern usage of the term -- a strike or spare is decimation to the last man.

This game actually looks incredibly fun and relaxing. Thanks for sharing! Will be checking out the demo this weekend :D

Oh, a really nice idea, to build on a mountain. It actually looks more epic that way.

@Splattercatgaming A mandala (Sanskrit: मण्डल, romanized: maṇḍala, lit. 'circle', [ˈmɐɳɖɐlɐ]) is a geometric configuration of symbols. In various spiritual traditions, mandalas may be employed for focusing attention of practitioners and adepts, as a spiritual guidance tool, for establishing a sacred space and as an aid to meditation and trance induction. In the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Shinto it is used as a map representing deities, or especially in the case of Shinto, paradises, kami or actual shrines.A mandala generally represents the spiritual journey, starting from outside to the inner core, through layers.

15:12 egg in a basket is when you cut a circle in a piece of bread you then butter it and put it in a hot pan and then crack an egg and drop it into the hole you cut out and you cook it like a grilled cheese and when its done you have the still liquid yolk sitting in the hole in the bread and the egg white is mostly on the bread itself, its like french toast but better.

I LOVE that you are an Indie Game specialist, and also that (even though I don't find much interest in some of the games you highlight), I could even listen to you open and describe a packet of chips, and still find it entertaining.

@splattercat, the word you’re looking for concerning your metal rooster pointing directions is “weather vane”

That's pretty amazing and unexpected. Thanks for highlighting it Splat!

The compass with a rooster is called a weathervane.

I thought egg in a window was when you cut a hole in the toast, lay it in a pan, and then fry the egg in there. Only had it once tho. What you described I call a fried egg sammich. Sometimes ham or bacon find their way onto it. Besides salt and pepper, rosemary and smoked paprika are also eggselent additions.

1. Its a weathervane 2. The honey you are talking about is still in a piece of the hive which is made of Beeswax

Hey Splat, for another version of egg in a basket, take a biscuit cutter and cut a hole in the bread. Then lay that on a skillet and pour your egg into the hole. I think you'll like that.

Man, I love your vids! Levels of wholesomeness and humor otherwise only found in stuff like Ted Lasso :)

Literally going to make an eggy in a basket right now. Sounds amazing.

Next video: show us how you prepare your breakfast, with an eggy patty.

"Anno on a mountainside" is actually fairly high praise (though it depends on which Anno).

That's Zeus/Cleopatra with extra steps. Which is a good thing because I've been waiting for a game like that for years. And no, lets not mention the remake.

Holy butt. Pretty game! Also I love the Himalayan aesthetic, reminds me of Far Cry 4's excellent and colorful buildings and architecture.

A Mandala is whatever you want it to be splatty, whatever you want it to be

Oh I hope this is good. Looks really nice so far. I'm loving Against the Storm as well

Thanks for showcasing! ^^

The mandala is the part of your brain that controls anger. Mandala oblongato.

Usually I would agree that it would be nice to be able to rotate buildings. Alternatively, however, it would also be kind of cool if they built some in-game lore as to the way that things are built the way they are. Like say in the world's culture, it is believed to invite bad fortune to have the front door facing the mountain; but good to have it facing out to the open. Mandalas always need to be oriented a certain direction to direct their energies toward/away from the mountain. Stuff like that. They could take that limitation and make it a point of culture.

"Ah yes, the game. the game for Kuzco. The game especially chosen for Kuzco. Kuzco's game."

Very interesting little demo. Reminds me of pharaoh a little bit

What a novel idea! Which is crazy because the main thing is they just let you build around a mountain and upwards, but I can't think of another game that does that.

Reminds me of the old Zeus, Poseiden, Pharaoh games. That wind direction deal is a weather vein. Vane? The sound is there. Lol.

Wishlisted it. Thanks Splatty!

I am digging the background music

LOL the avalanche at the end. See on the demo they have the avalanche fences but there's still people walking across the path as the horn sounds..

the "metal windsock" you're thinking of is called a weather vane.

I'm stuck on eggy in a basket... I'm hungry now. Like ... a lot.... THANKS! :)

The pathing upward needs to build out the stairs laterally around the vertical faces; rightnow it just shoots a steep ladder like it’snothing 🤷‍♂️

a Mandala is Mathematics, in certain circles know as "Sacred Geometry", it is all shapes and lines that can be made by nature.

Nah egg in a basket is where you butter the bread, cut a circle out, fry the egg in the circle you've cut out of the bread in a skillet, and then you fry up the circle of bread also and you use it to clean up the yoke.

You must construct additional Yaks.

This games color palette is rather pleasant.

Love the ascetic of this game, looking forward to it coming out. Did you say you butter the bread before putting it in the toaster? That's a grease fire waiting to happen. Also it's a lot easier to spread after the toaster as the heat melts it. Maybe you just miss spoke.

I don't remember ever seeing, or hearing about this game, but it has somehow been on my wishlist since December 2021. rofl

This game is just adorable and such a nice step forward for civ games. I'd like to see death play a more central role in the lives of your little sims, particularly in the need for temples, graveyards, and sim downtime for funerals. That'd create more areas of impetus for the player to improve tools, skills, and safety for their workers, and would work really well in the civ games where each sim has a name and tracked family. For this game in particular, where mountain climbing seems to be the central theme, I would like to see bridges and shafts require an establishment period where climber sims have to traverse rock to create ropeways before new ledges can be accessed (and therefore have the possibilities of sim deaths). I'd also like to see civ games require building upgrades to need more adjacent land before they can be upgraded, just like irl. Unless you can develop better architectural engineering to build up, players should be faced with the challenge of reclaiming neighbouring plots to get bigger and better facilities. That'd put a lot more planning and prioritisation expectation on the player for more complexity and fun!

well, cant believed that 20 years ago Zeus:poisedon is already allow us to ... rotate the screen 🤣

your inner dwarf be like 1:09

There is a restaurant in Slovenia, called the Hot Horse where they sell horse meat burgers and other horse meat foods, its been there for decades.

I thought an egg in a hole was supposed to be a fried egg cracked into a hole in bread on a frying pan, with the whites smeared across the bread and the yolk in the hole.

That's a weather vane you are thinking of ;)

Honey is magic, honey is life.

I love eggies n a basket myself and would also like to run my hand through a barley field. I actually got a chance to take pictures in a very green long flowy grass field with some others and that was amazing too.

Far Cry 4 was the one set in pseudo-Himalayan mountain area. 5 was the one set in Montana

I love it 💞 This game is adorable

Chicken spinny thingy on top of houses is called weather vane lol

I feel the reason why buildimg doesnt rotate because it had to do with the mountain Feng Shui? Or theres this things about Aura/how power flows through the buildings.. idk i do feel like there should be different varieties when being rotated like horizontally the gates change its place

3:45 here it gives strong vibes of Anno games.

Can’t wait for this!

Have a great weekend, Splat!

"Weather Vane" was the term you were looking for at 10:00.

No building rotation?? That's a big no no

Yak is just a hairy cow :D

Yak meat's pretty expensive, Splat. I want.

Truly unique concept, can't wait to see how players rate this

Splat updating while I was watching another of his vids 😆

Yak-Shack sounds like a modern day vomitorium.

It's a weather Vein, very popular in the old south🙂

Far Cry in Himalaya was I think 4, with Vaas, 5 was doomsday cult one with Joseph.

Also an aid to meditation

Wasn't that a highland cow, not a yak?