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  1. Progress Report: Final Crunchdown [Part 3/5]

    r/BattleGemPonies - Really looking forward to seeing people run around all these maps! I wonder what things will captivate people's exploration instincts most...

    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", different ways to get certain ponies on your roster early, countless customizations by the time you reach the end of Act 1 of 3 and (if I do my job right) lots of fun and memorable moments around every corner.

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

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    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...)
     

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    Foundations are set for all 600+ rooms you'll be exploring once the game comes out. Take a peek at what's going into them with the Patreon Update below:

    Patreon.com/YotesMark

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    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 out monetization schemes. 💸

    Especially in order for us to keep the promises made to every person who supported this Pony RPG dream with their own hard-earned money! 🦄

  4. The Big Fat Kickstarter 2nd Anniversary Writeup! 🎊

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    It's officially been 2 years since the Kickstarter now and the Battle Gem Ponies dev team is happy to see things finally taking shape!
    There's a celebration/progress report post on our Patreon blog to commemorate the occasion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/big-fat-2nd-88688631

     

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    One of the main design goals for Battle Gem Ponies is making the choice between these three for your first transformation an excruciating decision. 

    Very early on in your adventure, you'll come across a strange old woman beckoning you to take one of 3 mysterious, colorful, vision-inducing stones that your buddy Ponatina will have an interesting reaction to... 

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  5. 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. 🤝📈

  6. An exciting new Progress Report is here!

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    March 2023 Progress Report (Ponies Under Construction 👷)

    Gearing up to animate some new ponies for you to catch and battle with! 🐎

    Check it out on the YotesMark Patreon!

    patreon.com/YotesMark

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    Sprites are under construction this month, so a lot more characters can be added to the playable Battle Gem Ponies roster come April and beyond! 👷 🚧 🏗️

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    Everyone who ordered Add-Ons from the BGP Kickstarter should've gotten some special stuff  in the mail recently, or can at least expect it to show up before March 1st.

    (If not, double check your address listed on Kickstarter and let ol' Tony Yotes know if there's been a mixup.)

    It's been so nice to see the posts of people opening up their packages and we can't wait for the next wave with all the international ones and the PILE of T-Shirts to come!
     

    With this stage of order fulfillment complete we're also free to let the ol' Shopify site hibernate for a while. It's currently been burning fuel in the company wallet for a while, we'd basically need to sell at least 2 shirts a month to keep it sustained, but that's not been happening for at least a year now. So we're changing things up to a more sustainable model where folks who really want it can still get it, without any extra cost to the YotesMark studio!

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    Our New RedBubble Shop is where you can get BGP merch from now on!

    (Which is nice because they handle all the orders, inventory, and shipping stuff so we don't have to pay up and reach out to different websites every time an order is placed. 😁)

    Just pop over there and see all the crazy stuff they've got with our ponies' faces on 'em. It's a greater variety of stuff than we could ever manage by ourselves! 

     

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    And you can expect a lot more where that came from once the other T-Shirt designs are done and the game is finally out there. 

    In the meantime, thanks for making all this possible by following the development of Battle Gem Ponies!

  8. 👴⚙️💬
    NEW New Patch is Out!! [0.5.6]

    The hardly-tested new feature we added in the previous hotfix completely broke VS Mode Functionality with a Null Ref error that leaves the game in a locked up state with the wrong UI as soon as you get into battle.

    • VS Matches Are in an Unplayable State No Longer!
    • General Settings Page has been Added to Options Menu
    • Text Speed Control Option is Functional
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