Lovecraftian Terrors | AMYGDALA Prelude | Indie Horror Game 

He broke his most sacred toilet tenet. Thou shall not break the crapper.

This looks like so much fun! Wonderful job! Very impressive for a first game. I'm curious: can you smash everything up?

@@OhGeeWillickersMister Thanks so much! For the final release, there should be lots of destructibles in the environment to make full use of the source engines physics system.

Your game looked like a heap of fun to me and your responsiveness to his CJU's critiques fills me with confidence that this game will be a lot of fun upon release.

​​@@thevalleyard3942Thanks for the kind words! I'm making sure that I watch every video, read every steam discussion, and read every comment. I take everything that people have to say about as critique on how I can make the game that people are hoping for.

Replace the spiders with scorpions and crabs :3

The best part is yet to come - If the player moves through a dark small tunnel, we're going to add in the ability for them to scurry across the players face/camera from time to time (unless they have arachnophobia mode on).

@@jaspercarmack AUAUUAUGUGGHGHGHGHGHFFFFFFFWHY XD

Lmao 😂🤣💀 That's what the toilets in half-life 2 do in the nova prospect area 😂

Really glad to hear you like him! He'll be playing quite a prominent role in the game and you'll see more of him to come.

I'd love to see more as well. Though, preferably, without the spiders would be nice. I've actually wondered what it would be like to be mated with a Deep One or "Hybrid" In fact I've got a two volume set of books called the "Monster Girl Encyclopedia" It's actually quite fun to read... If a little risque. 😉 I'm hoping they publish a Vol. III before I leave. I'd love to get it and there are monsters listed on the wiki for it that aren't in either of the books.

@@shadowjudge921 I can understand the fascination. Generally, however, I prefer my men without tentacles.😆

@@Scriptor13 Takes all sorts to make a world. 🙂

@@shadowjudge921 I'll be putting an Arachnophobia-friendly mode in the game which replaces the spiders with slime blobs, so people with a spider phobia can play and enjoy without having to worry about them.

No tentacles or fish men for me tyvm. If could be like the little mermaid turned human or Splash okay.

Lol I got banned off a forum a while back for calling a New Zealander a Kiwi. Apparently it's a racial slur to some people. I don't think they'd survive long considering the Aus/NZ culture of banter.

Ha ha your not wrong!

​@@Assdafflabaffit's only to the folks who don't wanna live there

@@Assdafflabaff🥝

Well "African Americans " here in the USA call each other my N****r but yeah I'm not calling them that on here. So yeah, I see RU-vid point of it being a slur.

They aren't harmless they just don't want to go after folks

The Huntsman is one of the few aussie spiders that's a friend. They do a great job of eating mozzies, moths and other little annoying bugs.

I love goodie 🤤 win and cheese that all i need champagne some time kiss ❤

Each room was crafted to be unique in its own way as much as possible, so it didn't just all feel like one big 'generic mansion with beige plaster walls and dark wood trim'. I'm really glad it's noticeable! The decor in particular is heavily inspired by late 1970s / early 1980s Australian interiors, so it makes use of a lot of earthy tones, browns, greens, and florals.

As the developer, I can confirm 100% - we had to shrink them down so they would fit in the mansion map.

@@jaspercarmack Hey, better to include them than not. They get angry when they're left out of things. Just be careful if you include the sheep - I've yet to see a game properly model the sheer murderousness of 'Strayan sheep. They're responsible for the Japanese being unable to occupy any land there during WWII. (Real talk, this game looks like a ton of fun! I do agree with a chunk of CJU's criticisms, but jokes about spiders aside you did a great job with the way they move and act. And it's nice to see someone remembering that Deep Ones have an actual civilization of their own, much less remembering that there's stages of hybridization. I'll be watching this one with great interest, and hoping for a full release.)

Funnily enough, the house in this demo is literally based on a dream I had back in 2018! I dreamt the main hall area and mapped it out in a different game engine at the time, and then for some reason I kept having recurring dreams of returning to this place and exploring its bizarre twisting and claustrophobic hallways more and more as they lead deeper into the house, and I decided it was too good to not bring it to life and turn it into a map. Despite the strange design, I'd say it turned out to be a pleasantly interesting map to use for a game! It was also the map that kickstarted the development of Amygdala: Prelude.

I made the attacks pronounced in this game because I was so fed up with most triple AAA games making guns sound like a wet fart, and feel like they fired bb pellets, and melee weapons feel like plastic. I long miss when a lot of weapons in games had a real 'oomph' factor in them (e.g. the shotgun from DOOM).

True! He should play that. Fave

You got it! They were thrown in as a test bed actually, and we may or may not cut a few of them, but when the player reaches this map in the actual full game, they will probably only have a revolver and shotgun.

@@jaspercarmack yep! That makes sense!

This is great feedback, thanks so much! Interestingly, the reason for so much firepower is that when tested, people were immediately holstering the revolver and shotgun and only using the wrench, then nearly dying to the hybrids and saying they didn't have the firepower to take them on. I suspect people were 'saving their ammo' as I used to in a Resident Evil game; I hid a few extra weapons in the house very last-minute to see what people would find and to gain some insight as to what weapons people -did- prefer to use. Would they draw an SMG and use that predominantly, or keep the shotgun out etc. I'm currently working on the patch which includes various tweaks and improvements, bug fixes and polish, but also removes all the excess weapons since the testing phase is over. As for the monsters being scary, there's definitely some AI behavioural changes in the works which will change how they interact with the player, but also different environments which are definitely a lot darker and creepier than the mansion. In this demo, we had to fit quite a lot of things into the map to show 'all features that will be in the final game' even if they don't really belong on this map, so there was a lot of storytelling, notes and info that had to be crammed into the demo to try and convey a lot more information, but also assess how much players were reading and taking note of. When the demo is updated, a lot of the information/spare guns will be stripped and there will be different enemy placements which I hope should make for a much better experience and pacing.

@@jaspercarmack "People were immediately holstering the revolver and shotgun and only using the wrench, then nearly dying to the hybrids and saying they didn't have the firepower to take them on." This is very strange. Even if they were attempting to save ammo, as soon as the wrench became obviously not enough, the two guns were still available. It has to be some form of inexperience or misunderstanding, because while I haven't played your demo yet, the guns seemed more than enough with the wrench being a backup weapon at best. The revolver and shotgun, provided enough ammo is around, sure seems perfectly adequate for this first section of the game. I'm glad you'll be removing the extra weapons. I've been reading your comments on this video, and given the changes and optimizations you're planning on making, this project actually sounds like it will turn out quite well. If you can tweak the combat difficulty and balance the anxiety to confidence ratio during enemy encounters, while of course maintaining the quality with the rest of the game, I expect it to be well received when it launches. I'm looking forward to it. One question if you don't mind answering. Are you planning on placing items in any of the destructible boxes and vases, or are they just there for cathartic smashing? I could see it going either way.

@@GenuflectOrDie For the boxes - I've actually just pushed a patch yesterday that makes use of a Dynamic Resupply System that means the boxes will spawn ammo or health, whatever you need most. It's still a bit janky but it -does- give ammo. The vases will also spawn things in the future when we've had some time to work on that system.