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About this blog

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Every month or so, we'll come out with an update on the game. Sometimes progress is super showy & eventful, sometimes it's boring behind the scenes stuff, but they're always kept interesting and have a hopeful message about determination.

The blog is separated into parts to flow consistently. There's a summary/introduction/teaser linking to the full blog post on my website, then from there you'll get screenshot highlights, a list of tasks completed that week, a list of lessons learned, at least one paragraph of an interesting thought/idea/feature, then either a Patreon thank you, articles/videos my stuff has been featured in, or download counts for all my released games so far. Then the blog post ends with a paragraph or two about next steps and my thoughts going into the new week.

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The aim with all this is to inspire other developers the way teams like Mane6 inspired us. To show game development is possible, and even though it takes forever, the progress is visible, the results are tangible, and the process is rewarding.

And for the more casual fan, this monthly blog shows that the devs are not dead, the project is still being worked on, and you'll get to play new content very soon.

So saddle up and come along for the ride!

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Halloween Mini-Update 🎃

Happy Spooky Candy Pumpkin Day!! 🍫🎃🍬 BGP is Half Price for Halloween, get it while you can! -> https://yotesmark.itch.io/battle-gem-ponies Our little recovery vacation is coming to an end and full-speed development on Act 1 officially begins tomorrow. Hope you're having fun with the current version of the game, as we look forward to making it THREE TIMES more awesome! 

🎊 Battle Gem Ponies has been Released!! 🎉🦄

It's finally out, guys. You can download the long awaited Battle Gem Ponies on Windows, iOS, Android, Mac, Linux, and even Amazon Tablets!  You can check out the Launch Trailer on YouTube (it premiered in the 2024 Monster Taming Direct this morning) if you wanna hype yourself up even more!   Every backer has been sent the download keys ordered since the Kickstarter began 3 years ago. (And if ANY of you are having trouble redeeming them, reach out to Tony Yotes!) I won't bog thin

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BGP is coming to the Monster Taming Direct! 💎📰✨

Exciting BGP news and reveals are coming to the Monster Taming Direct! 💎 The event will be hosted by Gym Leader Ed on YouTube, featuring tons of exciting news on Pokémon inspired indie games! The BGP team has seen this channel rapidly grow from 14K subs to over 90K over the past few years since plotting our own Kickstarter they promoted. And these Monster Taming Directs always exceed the sub count in the long term, so this might be pretty big deal. (100K niche targeted warm-lead views for

Progress Report: Final Crunchdown [Part 3/5]

The pieces are coming together one-by-one as each map gets fleshed out. But it'll still be a little while before it's considered to be in a "playable" state. Check it all out in the latest BGP Progress Report! https://www.patreon.com/posts/progress-report-99080476   Really looking forward to seeing people run around all these maps! I wonder what things will captivate people's exploration instincts most... There's going to be branching paths to let you do things "out of order", diffe

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Progress Report: Final Crunchdown [Part 2/5]​

The latest and greatest progress report has arrived! As of the 15th of January, it's officially the end of Map Month! That means ALL the maps are IN the game! Well, the 1st draft unconfigured foundations at least. But you can SEE them! (All that's left now is to polish them up, replace the placeholders, sprinkle some characters around, put the story together with cutscenes...)   Foundations are set for all 600+ rooms you'll be exploring once the game comes out. Take a pee

Unity Fees Won't Stop Us

We've been getting messages from Battle Gem Ponies backers with worries that the Unity Per-Install Fee could delay or even cancel the project. Here to say now, that won't happen. ❌ Not only are we expecting to not come close to the 1M downloads & dollars a year mark to trigger it, but this project's been through way worse hardships than an engine change over the years. We'll do what we've gotta do to make BGP a reality and not allow a greedy company to bankrupt us with poorly thought ou

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August 2023 Progress Report (Battle Gem Ponies LITE 💡📱)

BGP Progress Report Time! New maps, bug squashin', giant vehicles, conventions, & overworld effects. Got 11 headlines for ya, so come see how things are going in gamedev as Summer comes to a close, over on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/YotesMark The next Progress Report will be at the end of September. And hopefully with tons of exciting news! (Like when the Alpha will finally arrive)

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Back From TrotCon 2023!

Back From TrotCon 2023! Tons of new people are now interested in the game, our Discord numbers have shot up 15%, over a hundred people downloaded the demo, and we gathered lots of feedback to further improve the game and booth setups! 🎮📱 Plus, we caught the eye of some pretty large streamers, finally met some BGP community members face-to-face, and we met several cool folks to collab with someday. 🤝📈

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