Art of the Dress | Alpha 2

[Rikifive 23,485]

ALPHA 2

Hello everypony!

Originally I planned to make this game for Rarity's day, but... It didn't work hue hue.

I've manged to get the game working in about 5 days, but polishing it and adding next features... well, took waaaaay longer.

I was never programming puzzle games of any kind before, so this was ... and still is an interesting experience!

But okay, enough of that. 

What is this game about?

Basically, it's a match-three puzzle game starring our beloved fashion pony, Rarity. 

At the moment the game lacks of many features, it only has the basic ones... And it only has two levels, because drawing these dress sketches (rd's is actually just 'borrowed' heh) took longer than I expected. RIP ;-;

 

FABULOUS Screenies!

Spoiler

Welcome indeed!

Yeah, that AJ sketch took a while... 

 

DOWNLOAD

 CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD 

FILENAME: Art of the Dress (Alpha 2)
PLATFORM: WINDOWS
FILE TYPE: .zip
FILE SIZE: 30.2 MB
HOSTED ON: Google Drive
ESTIMATED GAME LENGTH: About 5 minutes ... EPIC!

System Requirements:
I tested it on my potato laptop and it was working fine.
I'll you'll experience any framerate drops, please let me know, along with providing your computer specs.
Press M to toggle debug overlay, which displays FPS and what exactly might slow down the performance.

How to Install:
This is a packed .zip file.
All you need to do is to unpack it anywhere and launch the game, no installation required.
You can unpack it with various common packing software, such as WinRAR.
I believe there are even online extractors, so just ask Uncle Google.
Installation files for little demos isn't practical, so for now .zip will be enough.

Reporting Bugs:
I tested it multiple times and the game seemed to work, but there were many additions in a short period of time, so chances are, that something might glitch in rare cases. Well, it's just Alpha, duh!

Nevertheless, if you'll experience any weird behavior, I'd really appreciate reporting this.
Videos would be perfect, but a proper explanation what and when that happened would be good too.
Please try your best when reporting issues, thank you!  
 DISCLAIMER
Just in case, let me mention, that this is an alpha version and there might be bugs.
Worst case scenario will be the game freezing, but that shouldn't happen.
Just keep that possibility in mind, you never know.

GAMEPLAY VIDEO

If you can't or don't want to play this game, it's totally fine, there's not much into it at the moment anyway.
Buuut perhaps at least take a look at the gameplay video I've recorded? I worked so hard on that game. uwu

 

CREDITS

Spoiler

Design, Programming:
ME

Graphics:
scrolls, papers, bars, hourglass (bundled with sand ), magnifying glass, AJ's dress lineart, cursor
ALSO ME

Gem Graphics: (all might be replaced with ones I'll draw myself in the future)
The New Elements of Harmony by flashlighthouse
MLP Resource: Random Clutter 005 (score icon) by ZuTheSkunk
Rainbow Thread by dasprid

Backgrounds:
Carousel Boutique Downstairs East by adamlhumphreys
Rarities work room by Vector-Brony
Rarity's room by Culu-Bluebeaver
+I took few directly from the show.

Sounds:
Little Robot Sound Factory
ViRiX Dreamcore
Eric Matyas
Kenney Vleugels
+Few took directly from the show.

Music:
"Art of the Dress"
"Make a Wish"
by
Daniel Ingram

 

I hope you'll like it,
thank you for visiting!

[Cash In 21,506]

Looking good. I'll give it a shot!

[Sparklefan1234 161,850]

@Rikifive THIS LOOKS AMAZING, MY FRIEND!  GREAT WORK! 

[Patty Thundersnow 4,129]

Looks great! Great work as usual

[Lord Valtasar 12,685]

pretty well made, i really like how professional and show-like it looks, a bit too easy as they just start popping by themselves after a while, but i guess that's because it's the first levels only, really nice the music bit from art of the dress aswel, it's so nostalgic and the most Rarity song that ever was(the only one with a chance to compete is "Rules of Rarity")

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4 hours ago, Trix or Treat said:

a bit too easy as they just start popping by themselves after a while, but i guess that's because it's the first levels only, really nice the music bit from art of the dress aswel, it's so nostalgic and the most Rarity song that ever was(the only one with a chance to compete is "Rules of Rarity")

That's correct, it's because these are the first levels. More types will start to appear along with progress, including...

bois that cannot be matched 

Hmm speaking of Rules of Rarity. 

 

Thank you very much everypony! 

[HereComesTom 2,232]

Hey, it's me!!!

Heheh---no one is a match for me! 

[TheRockARooster 47,276]

@Rikifive

I’m so gonna get this. ^^

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33 minutes ago, HereComesTom said:

Hey, it's me!!!

Heheh---no one is a match for me! 

Indeed!  

LOL yeah  

27 minutes ago, The Demon said:

@Rikifive

I’m so gonna get this. ^^

In that case I hope you'll have fun!  

Too bad it's so short at the moment though. 

[HeavenSunset 1,867]

That was a magical five minutes 

It ran quite well on my potato laptop, which surprised me because i usually can't even run Flash games 

However, the Discord button took 2 minutes,  i'm gonna blame that on my potato computer

it's okay though, i found The Forest Hideout  

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@HeavenSunset Aww I'm glad you enjoyed these five minutes! 

That's good to know, thank you for sharing that information. 

The button there is just a link that opens the browser with the invitation link, so yeah, nothing I can do with that.

Awesome!  I hope you'll have a good time here. 

[Muffinnz 3,219]

Amazing, I can't wait to try it