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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", 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. -
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 peek at what's going into them with the Patreon Update below:
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This is it... this is the year #BattleGemPonies comes out... My entire #gamedev life has led to the number 2024 being on the title screen of my high school #ponymon dream game 🦄🎮
- Got 120 days left to make it happen! 😤🚀
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Enough messin' around. We're charting a course to get Battle Gem Ponies out in Five Months (or collapse trying). Here's details on how we intend to pull that off.
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That September Demo we promised is finally here! 🤩
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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! 🦄
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The Big Fat Kickstarter 2nd Anniversary Writeup! 🎊
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-88688631One 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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Back From Everfree Northwest 2023!
Love how the #BattleGemPonies #everfreenorthwest booth turned out 💜
This man was fixing bugs LIVE ON THE SHOW FLOOR!! #EFNW #Convention
By Day 3 we had the super nice & new cutscene/tutorial build working and took careful notes on how different players explored it. -
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!
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. 🤝📈 -
Gears have shifted towards the tasks weighing us down. Luckily, we've made great headway and both the story and the tools to make it are really coming together!💡
Come read the July 2023 Progress Report (The Makings of a Story 📖), now Live on Patreon!🗞️
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Our biggest accomplishments this past month have been an improved animation pipeline and a functioning cutscene system.
2 ENORMOUS steps forward (despite the Great Zelda Distraction 😅 )
The June BGP Progress Report has just landed! (So you can read all about it)
Get ready for "Sprites, Camera... ACTION! 📽️🦄"
https://www.patreon.com/YotesMark
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It took about a month and a half, but ALL the pony sprite pieces have finally been drawn and as of right now I can begin the frame-by-frame animation process!
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One of the main priorities of the game is making each pony character expressive and visually interesting. We want people to connect with them. 🐴💖
Each pony is meant to be someone's favorite for multiple reasons, gameplay related or otherwise.
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An exciting new Progress Report is here!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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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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You can PLAY the NEW February DEMO of Battle Gem Ponies Right NOW!!
New #BattleGemPonies demo is up! Jam-Packed with improvements based on feedback from #magfest2023!
Play It Here! https://yotesmark.itch.io/battle-gem-ponies…
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Wave 1 Backer Rewards Are Now Being Shipped! 📦Get the full news here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/78025378
And keep up with daily development screenshots and accomplishment lists on our Backer & Patreon exclusive Discord channel! 📰
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Made some waves at Magfest!
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A new post is up on our #gamedev Patreon! 📰
It's going over every single task left to do on the #BattleGemPonies project to get us to Beta by Christmas ☄️
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End of 2022 Progress Report (Approaching the Final Year!)
A new progress report's up on the YotesMark Patreon!
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It's our Patreon Anniversary! (From 2017 to 2022...)
It's truly amazing how far we've come and how long we've kept going despite the hurdles. 📈
Big THANK YOU to EVERY backer keeping this #indiedev dream afloat! 🛳️🥳
[ Join the Stampede!🐎➡️: patreon.com/YotesMark ]
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This week, we're showing off some newly revealed High Quality 3D renders of your starter #ponymon, Ponatina! 🐴
(created by #djthed to promote our #battlegemponies game 🎮 )Here's the creation blog:
https://www.yotesgames.com/2022/12/the-finished-fully-animated-3d-ponatina.htmlAs well as a timelapse:
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Battle Gem Ponies - A Pony Tamer RPG
in Pony Games, Apps, and Dev Projects
Never appreciated the true tedious chaos of labeling and connecting doors together until this week. 😵💫
Every city is like this and the mountains are worse.
But then there's those simple little linear paths. Those are a treat