Fresh-Baked Beta 3 Update! 🍪📲

 

Check out Itch for Backer Beta Update #3!

Approaching the final few issues between this demo and launch day...
Play the Early Access Beta!

Beta 2 Update Has Arrived! (Plus, New Merch!)📲

 

#BattleGemPonies Sunday Beta Update, as promised! 🎮 (And some new goodies too! 🛍️)

Read for free on our Patreon!

Battle Gem Ponies Beta 1 Has Arrived! 🚅🚉

The Battle Gem Ponies Beta is here!! 🤩🎆

And you can play it on Itch.io right now! (Password for access is on the locked Patreon post if you're a $10+ donor and wanna claim your key.)

Or just take a gander at the update highlights below.

Progress Report: Final Crunchdown [Part 5/5]

The 5 month crunch rush is over, aaaannnd... the game's still not done. We were thrown too many curveballs during the home stretch and failed to meet our goal of a May 23rd launch, and it's time to get things back in order before wrapping up development.

In short, we're 1 more meetup away from having a Beta build ready. But that meetup won't be until June 15th because the entire team has personal life stuff to deal with.

And even after a Beta is out there in backer's hands, the bugs and gameplay flaws found in it need to be addressed. So at least another 10 days of work there, plus a marketing campaign for the countdown to launch day so people actually know it's finally coming out.

We're basically a month behind schedule. (A sentence I'm extremely sick of saying...)

Details about what's going on with development are on the BGP Patreon!

Unicorn Training 10th Anniversary Reupoload!

After being removed from the app store many years ago (for incompatibility with the latest phone software), we've reuploaded the first Yotes RPG ever: Unicorn Training!

You might remember it from this 
Unicorn Training Trailer here.

Now freshly patched, compatible with most devices out there, and even playable with keyboard controls for the first time! 

You can Play It on Itch.io, Google Play, or the iOS App Store and there's a free Lite version too if you want to try before you buy. 🦄

The BGP Alpha has ARRIVED at Last! (+ New Release Plans)

The Battle Gem Ponies Alpha Demo is finally here! Kickstarter & Patreon backers can grab an access key from the latest blog post and download it from Itch.io right now!

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Your BGP Adventure kicks off with meeting the young Professor Bucky of Equestrian Labs.

Which then leads into a hunt for the 6 Alpha Ponies roaming the regional outpost. Find them all, and trigger a showdown against the villainous Paragon Cartel who are out on a hunt of their own... 

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And in related big news, the release plan for the final game has changed!

BGP will now be releasing in 4 parts throughout the year (seasonal style) starting with the prologue "Arrival Story" coming by the end of this month [May 2024].

At launch you'll be able to play this smaller chapter and get in at a discount ($5 on mobile) before Act I of the "Mane Adventure" comes along by the end of Summer, raising the price to a full $10.

Act II and Act III will be released months later as free content updates. And there are plans, but not promises, to also release a PC version on Steam this year.

You can find all our social links and download portals on the YotesMark Linktree

We're happy to finally hand over hours and hours of fun new gameplay to the community and can't thank everyone enough, especially the backers, for the patience our team is graced with. The hurdles, setbacks, and long nights over the years will all be worthwhile when this love letter to the brony fandom hits the gaming world.

Hope you enjoy all the awesome stuff we jam-packed into this little ponymon game!

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Progress Report: Final Crunchdown [Part 4/5]

Hey all! 
We're cutting it pretty close with the monthly update deadline here, but that's because we wanted to come 'atcha with GREAT news.
And we did it: ALPHA is HERE!! 🎊

Progress Report: Final Crunchdown [Part 3/5]

Hey guys! Feels like it's been a long while and a short one at the same time. (Maybe sitting at a desk for 12+ hours a day is finally warping my mind 😵‍💫, but we'll deal with that after launch.)

This month's devlog is coming in so late because I intended on announcing a playable Alpha alongside it. But unfortunately, there's still at least 2 weeks worth of stuff to be done, so we're gonna miss the mark a little. Catch more details on that below.

Tilemap Door Connections in Progress

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🧁

Progress Report: Final Crunchdown [Part 2/5]

As of the 15th of January, it's officially the end of Map Month! 

It's officially the end of Map Month! That means ALL the maps are IN the game! 🌟

Foundations are set for all 600+ maps you'll be exploring once the game comes out. 🗺️

Final total map count being 209 areas split into 616 loadable rooms...

Check out a few exclusive preview examples and take a peek at what's going into each of them on the latest Patreon Devlog Update