Beyond the Long Night has officially launched! - with a 20% discount!
Explore a whimsical underground world whilst being chased by a mysterious corrupting force in this charming twin-stick action roguelike! Befriend loveable characters, fend off enemies with chaotic abilities, and uncover the secrets of this subterranean kingdom caught in a time loop.
with the official launch, You can now experience everything the Dark Mountain has in store, a whole host of new enemies, upgrades, superpowers and more branching narratives from the colourful mountain folk who call the dark mountain home.
You can see a taster of some of the new content we have added in our launch trailer linked below!
You can pick up Beyond the Long Night with a fantastic 20% discount! Not only that but you can also buy the Yogscast Games Adventure Bundle complete with both Beyond the Long Night and recently updated Aces & Adventures for a further discount! You can find this bundle and more on the Yogscast Games Spring Sale page! - Going live in 1 hours time!
Please feel free to let us know about any issues you encounter. We will be checking in on the Steam forums and Discord for any feedback and bug reports and will be working away at fixing any issues that come in.
https://discord.gg/j3czAmmvtb
We would love to say a big thank you to the Kickstarter backers, the playtesters, those who have provided valuable feedback and those who wishlisted the game and shared it with their friends. We really could not have done this without your support!
The final Beyond The Long Night playtest ahead of launch is now live!
The Final Beyond The Long Night Playtest is now live!
The time has nearly nearly upon us for our full launch! But you still have one final chance to enjoy the game before then! Simply head to the Beyond The Long Night store page and sign up to the final playtest ahead of the April 17th launch!
Everyone who has signed up will automatically have access to the playtest. If you have not signed up and would like the chance to participate, simply go to the store page and click the "join playtest button"
you will find a whole host of new content in this playtest, from bug fixes, balance changes to a new map area and new enemies and upgrades! Keep reading to the end for a full breakdown of what has been added.
We hope you enjoy the playtest and are happy to receive your feedback on the Steam forums or Discord. And remember to Wishlist the game to be notified the moment it launches!
Discord link - discord.gg/j3czAmmvtb
Thank you to everyone who Wishlisted the game and participated in the playtest to help us shape and improve the game throughout development, we hope to see you all on April 17th!
Full patch notes as follows:
MAP
New area unlocked - Hope's Peak
New enemies
New environmental hazards
New rooms in every biome
Made one of the Temple egg rooms easier to move through
Updated the layout of Eebi's farm
New Kickstarter cows
UPGRADES
New upgrade theme Smelly Cow - upgrades themed around toxic gas
New upgrade theme Pocket Healer - upgrades themed around healing
New upgrade theme Suspicious Mushroom - upgrades themed around randomness
Buff: the flame thrower now shoots further
Buff: Self Destruct spawns a Bullet Storm effect on the exploding balloon, in addition to the explosion
Buff: Shield Generator shields now last longer
Extra life will no longer kill the player if they only have one max health left
Fix for weird behavior when using Body Slam whilst holding a weighted cube
GAME MODES
Iron hat mode no longer spawns dud health collectibles from chests and enemies
Made upgrades spawn much more frequently in Iron hat mode
You now have to complete an encore run to unlock Iron Hat mode
AUDIO
New ambiences
New sounds when the player activates an extra life
New sounds for the little bird on the egg
New sounds on worms
New sounds on bumbleflys
New sounds on toxic and fire enemy projectiles
New sounds on throwable bombs
New UI sounds
New sounds when a shield recharges
New music behavior in the player death sequence
Fixed the sync on the player death sounds
Fixed music transition bugs in the first few rooms of the Temple and Ice biomes
Mixing
MISC
Fix for map icons sometimes appearing extremely large
Removed trailer at the end of the game
Missed the last Beyond The Long Night Playtest? - Join the bonus playtest now!
The Beyond The Long Night bonus Playtest is now live!
We are running a bonus playtest ahead of our April launch date, for everyone who wants to play some more and all those who missed the previous playtest!
Everyone who has signed up will automatically have access to the playtest. If you have not signed up and would like the chance to participate, simply go to the store page and click the "join playtest button"
This update addresses bug fixes and feedback from the original playtest, as well as 2 new enemy variations for you to contend with - the fire and poison bats! Keep reading for the full patch notes.
We hope you enjoy the playtest and are happy to receive your feedback on the Steam forums or Discord.
Discord link - discord.gg/j3czAmmvtb
PATCH NOTES
Map - Duplicate rooms are now much rarer, the map generation system will always try to use an unused room type if it can - Updated the colours of the pick from 3 shrines so it's clearer at a glance that the two are different and have different effects - Added a torch to one of the forest rooms to help out in rare situations where the player's bullets are too wonky to hit the switches properly - Tiles in front of sara's altar will now distort during the storm
Enemies & Hazards - New enemy variations added - small poison bats and large fire bats - Removed explosion damage on player from bomb bees - Slowed down the projectiles that fire out from Bomb Bees - Fixed issue where the Imp enemy could teleport to an unreachable part of the map in one of the temple rooms. - Fixed a bug where lasers would trigger switches every frame they hit them
Upgrades, Superpowers & Throwable Items - Spirit bullets now applies to lasers as well as walls and enemies - Barricade (shield bullet upgrade) now works on the bullets that fly out of toxic enemies on death - Spirit bullets now takes priority over bouncing bullets - After you use a throwable item (torch, bomb, etc), the next time you toggle your held item you will automatically go back to your main bullet weapon - You can no longer toggle your held item while shooting or using your superpower - Decreased the mouse scroll wheel sensitivity when toggling your held items - Fixed spirit protectors destroying on objects that don't deal damage - Fixed a bug where the thrown bird would get stuck in certain rooms and not be able to escape [13:29] UI - Allow players to quickly start a new run from the end screen and skip the animations - Fixed bug where the pop up UI would flicker on and off without showing the popup text after dialogue - Fixed pick from 3 menu occasionally updating to show a higher level than your current upgrade level if you moused over the button during the selection animation - Reduced the range of the brightness setting in the options menu to avoid players getting a pitch black screen
Characters - Fixed a bug where the first item in Eebi's shop after finding and engraving all of the moo-tivational quotes wouldn't be free - Cows that spawn in the wild will always be one you haven't discovered before now (unless you have discovered all of them, when it will be random) - Fixed a bug where the player was able to move and open menus during the cow petting animation - Fixed the cow shaun having the wrong hat in their dialogue box
Audio - Fixed the mole sleeping sound getting stuck on after the mole was destroyed - Fixed the wrong biome music playing in the first room of a new biome - Fixed the wrong layer of the temple combat music intro being ducked when the storm is nearby - New emotes for the Pilgrim - Tweaks to annoying child's loud shout emote - New sound when shields recharge - Mix tweaks
The Beyond The Long Night Playtest is now live!
The Beyond The Long Night Playtest is now live!
Everyone who has signed up will automatically have access to the playtest. If you have not signed up and would like the chance to participate, simply go to the store page and click the "join playtest button"
A new secret has been added to the game, and the first 5 people to discover it can win a free key for the game. Simply find the secret, take a screenshot and let us know in the "Secret Hunting Challenges" channel in our Discord. Look for the text that says "You found a secret". If you get stuck, remember that the Unfolding Stories section of your journal may help guide you to the answer.
Discord link - discord.gg/j3czAmmvtb
We hope you enjoy the playtest and are happy to receive your feedback on the Steam forums or Discord.
Please keep reading for the patch notes for this playtest.
PATCH NOTES
New Features: - Added the Forbidden Temple - Added new NPC - The Pilgrim - Superpower: Short-lived Immortality has changed to - "Become immune for a short period of time. While this effect is active, your bullets are additionally affected by your Superpower upgrades." - Added new unfolding stories to the Journal
The storm system has been tweaked to try to reduce situations where you get completely cut off with nowhere to go. The following changes have been made: - The storm will no longer spread into a room containing Bobbins unless the player has discovered that room. - The storm will no longer spread more that one room's height above the player - If the storm is between 3 and 8 rooms away, it will only spread to rooms in the player's direction. - Slightly increased the maximum spread rate of the storm to balance out these changes.
Polish and bug fixes: - Gave every entry in the Unfolding Stories section of the journal a unique icon - Updated and polished upgrade descriptions & titles - Fixed a bug where save data would get corrupted - Balance pass on the cost of items in the shop - Updated the font on Tutorial boards - Updated the appearance of button prompts - Updated the colour of the highlight enemies mode to be more friendly on the eyes for people with colour blindness - Fixed bug where the blurred background in menu screens would show an old room the player had been in - Shiny stones will now automatically travel to the player if there are no enemies in the room when they spawn - Fixed some tiles being on the wrong layer in the Temple - Buffed the health of Imps - Bees now slow down when they inflate - Added singing voices for the dreamy text in the start of run sequence - Increased the volume of combat music - Spelling error fixes
Live broadcast going live at 13:00 GMT / 07:00 PST Today!
Missed the first broadcast? No problem! We have our second Steam broadcasts going live today at 13:00 GMT / 07:00 PST, both on the Steam page and on the official Yogscast Twitch channel twitch.tv/yogscast . This is your opportunity to see the latest build showing off all the coolest new features!
A lot has changed since you saw the game last, with new superpowers and upgrades as well as a lot of improvements and bug fixes. Do make sure to check out the demo and consider wishlisting the game.
If you enjoy the stream you can watch more of the Yogscast on Twitch.
twitch.tv/yogscast
Live broadcast going live at 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST Today!
We will have the first of our Steam broadcasts going live in just under three hours at 18:00 GMT / 10:00 PST. This is your opportunity to see the latest build and ask Noisy Head Games whatever you like as he'll be joining us in the chat.
A lot has changed since you saw the game last, with new superpowers and upgrades as well as a lot of improvements and bug fixes. Do make sure to check out the demo and consider wishlisting the game.
If you enjoy the stream you can watch more of Bryony's streams on Twitch!
twitch.tv/brionykay
Beyond The Long Night Demo now live as part of Steam Next Fest!
The Beyond The Long Night demo is now playable as part of Steam Next Fest!
We're thrilled to get this out there - a brand new demo with more content, including 16 new upgrades, four new super powers, shrines that allow you to pick between three different upgrades and much, much more!
But that is not all! We have also hidden an item within the Next Fest demo which you will be able to find by paying close attention to the in game journal - and the first five people to take a screenshot upon obtaining it and putting it in the "Hidden-Item-Challenge" channel in the Beyond the Long Night Discord will win a copy of the game. We'll also be giving away random copies beyond the initial five, so even if you're late to the demo it's still well worth taking part.
discord.gg/j3czAmmvtb
We will also have a live broadcast on Tuesday the 7th at 14:00(GMT) 06:00 (PST) so be sure to check the Steam page to watch the live stream!
We really hope you can check out the demo and the live stream over Next Fest and will have more exciting news to come very soon.
Detailed patch notes as follows
Patch Notes: - 4 new upgrade categories added, including 16 new Upgrades and 4 new Superpowers -- Spooky Little Cloud: Upgrades themed around spooks! -- Holy Goblet: Upgrades themed around immunity -- Fire Seeds: Upgrades themed around fire -- Doppelganger: Upgrades themed around doubles - Added shrines that offer you a choice of three different upgrades - Added shrines that allow you to improve one of your existing upgrades - Added new throwing item Bombs - "Can be detonated remotely and will explode on contact with enemies." Found in treasure chests and some shops. - New Kickstarter motivational cows to discover - Highlight enemies mode added to the video settings - Lots of new audio! - The demo is now available on Mac
Upgrades/Superpower changes: - Increased the period of immunity after using the pinball superpower, giving the player longer to escape danger if they end up in a bad spot - Laser Focus (clock Superpower) changed to: "Aim and shoot a laser beam that does more damage if multiple enemies are hit at once. Time is slowed while aiming." - Passive and superpower shields changed to: "Generate a shield that wears off after a short period of time and breaks upon taking damage. Recharging your superpower will also extend the life of the shield." The base time the shield is active has been drastically reduced - Self Destruct changed to: "Blow up one of your balloons, triggering a large, highly damaging explosion. If your health is above 50%, take one damage. If your health is below 50%, deal twice as much damage to enemies." - Increased knockback (wind superpower upgrade) changed to: "Enemy knockback caused by superpowers is increased. Superpowers do slightly more damage."
Polish/Bugs: - Updated Unity Engine - Updated Wwise (audio engine) - Fixed bug where the bird would fly sideways if thrown downwards - Fixed a bug where you could get into an infinite conversation with two cow statues - You can now open the Current Build menu from any Pick from three menu - Greatly reduced the loading times when starting a completely fresh run - Increased the grace period before certain enemies start attacking the player - Superpower charge HUD tweaked - Fixed ricocheting bullets sometimes travelling inside the map - Fixed fireworks sometimes travelling inside the map - Fixed missing journal entry for selecting the shield stone at a monument - Slowed down the speed of dart trap projectiles - Reduced the number of dart traps in some rooms where they were excessive - You now have to travel further into a biome before the max number of enemies in a room is reached - Your player level and your progress last run has more of an impact on the initial difficulty of the next run - Killing enemies and collecting health items makes the difficulty ramp up slightly faster - Superpowers are offered much less, and upgrades are favored much more. - Fixed an issue where doors were opening and immediately closing when you entered a room - Weighted blocks now trigger dart traps - Thorns now shimmer like spikes do - Undiscovered map icons (i.e. question marks) now display in the centre of a room until the room is discovered - Added a pop-up when you collect a moo-tivational quote from a cow - Fixed cow hats not properly aligning with the cow's head in the dialogue box - Dialogue tweaks and new additions - Added an animation for the player waking up - Added an animation for gaining a balloon - Optimisations focused on reducing spikes in performance when the player wakes up, between room transitions and when auto saving. Ongoing process. - Bumped up biome ambiences in volume when there is no music playing - Fixed the delete save buttons being tricksy to focus the mouse on - Fixed encore run forgetting your last build if you exited the game between the runs
Demo 1.12.00 is out NOW! And it's a biggie!
Welcome explorers!
To celebrate Dreamhack Beyond's Indie Showcase, we've just launched a huge update to the free demo of Beyond the Long Night. There's a ton of new content to discover - new upgrades to play with, new enemies to contend with, a new game mode that turns up the chaos, and new entries in the journal to fill out.
Patch Notes:
Features
New game mode Party Hat - Everything gets quicker!
New game mode select screen. Every game mode has a unique hat.
8 new Upgrades, 2 new Superpowers. The Berseker and Bomb categories, themed around high damage at low health, and explosions.
2 new enemies - The Imp and the paradise bird.
2 new bee enemy variations - Poison bees and Bomb bees.
Fire enemies now shoot 3x as many projectiles at once, and explode into flames on death.
Poison enemies are now much faster, shoot much more often, and release poisonous projectiles on death that slow you down. The slow down effect from poisonous enemies has been strengthened.
New unfolding stories with Bobbins, the Annoying Child, Eebi and Umpa.
The first batch of Kickstarter Complimentary Cows are discoverable in game.
Almost double the room variation.
Map generation has been tweaked to create a more maze-like map layout.
Added rubber banding to the storm spreading speed.
Enabled Steam Cloud Saves
New item [REDACTED] to help locate [REDACTED] and solve [REDACTED]
Polish and bug fixes
Unity engine updated.
New font and updated several parts of the UI
Tons of new sounds.
Dart traps now emit a small light shaft from their mouths when they’re ready to shoot.
Dodge Parry now parries enemy bullets from further away, making it easier to use the effect.
Dialogue tweaks across several characters.
Removed the New Adventure option from the main menu after the first run, leaving just Continue and New Run. You can now delete your save data in the options menu (main menu only) if you’d like to reset your save.
Tweaks to existing rooms.
Updated the trailer at the end of a run to the Kickstarter launch trailer.
Umpa is more likely to land on the ground rather than standing in mid air over an open bottom exit
Added a map icon for Pickles
Reduced the gaps between ambient music tracks
Lots more small fixes & tweaks.
Finally, due to big changes with the journal, I unfortunately had to reset everybody's journal save data for this update. This will mean starting again unfortunately - I know this is frustrating and I'm really sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Happy exploring! Steve
Tiny Teams Festival & demo returning to Steam next week!
Hi explorers! It's Steve from Noisy Head here.
Next week is Tiny Teams festival, run by The Yogscast, and I'm really honoured to have been selected for this year's event!
Tiny Teams is a week long Steam festival, celebrating micro studios with 5 or less developers. There will be some indie classics on sale, as well as free demos for a ton of up-and-coming games across a bunch of different genres.
The Yogscast will be streaming throughout the week on the event Steam page, as well as on Twitch. If you want to catch them playing Beyond the Long Night, then check out the stream on Monday 1st Aug, between 5-8PM BST.
Yogscast Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/yogscast
If you've never played the demo before then it will be returning to Steam next week too, so make sure to grab yourself a copy!
See you all soon for an exciting week of streams!
Demo week! Save and Sound Festival & Develop Indie Showtime
Hullo explorers! Steve from Noisy Head here.
We have an insanely exciting week (Jul 11-18 2022) as we're taking part in two festivals. As you may or not know, Beyond the Long Night is made by a tiny team (one lead developer and two sound designers) so the fact we were selected for these events alongside some amazing other indie games has been incredibly humbling for us.
So to celebrate with you, the demo is going to be available all of this week. Make sure to grab it if you haven't downloaded it before!
Save and Sound festival
We're taking part in the 2022 Save and Sound festival - an online music festival with sales and demos on Steam. Celebrating headbanging soundtracks as well as unique implementations of music and audio in games.
We've prepared a musical deep dive that will be streamed live during the event, and the Beyond the Long Night demo will be returning to Steam. We'll also be streaming full tracks from the Beyond the Long Night soundtrack on our Steam page.
Watch the show on Steam, YouTube or Twitch - the show runs Thursday 14th - Sunday 18th July, and our slot is Sunday 18th 10am PDT (6PM BST)!
Set a reminder to be notified when Save & Sound will go live!
The show will be streamed on the Save & Sound website. You can check out all the games part of the event on saveandsound.io
Develop Indie Showtime
We're going to be at one of the UK's biggest developer conferences in Brighton next week, showcasing the demo along with 9 other upcoming indie darlings. If you're attending the conference then do be sure to come visit our booth in the exhibition hall - after developing the game through a global pandemic, I'm so excited to meet other devs and community members in person!
