Battle Gem Ponies Alpha Playtesting Begins Today! 🌟💎🌟

Gather around! It's finally playable! 🎉🎮 Battle Gem Ponies is coming along nicely and we're happy to announce we can finally conduct the first backers-only playtest of Act 1!

Go see the latest Patreon post to get your key to the download!

We know you guys have been waiting YEARS for this, right alongside us. It's time we pull back the curtain and let you guys see what we've been up to since launch day on mobile back in September 2024. 

Now there's at least a dozen hours of new gameplay to enjoy!

Sound Fun? Then Join the Playtest! 🎮(details below▾)

We can't believe it's finally happening. The game is stable enough to start sharing around!

⭐State of the Game⭐

Ever since the team's second programmer (and general tech mastermind) RoyalPizza stopped by on his annual brief visit to America, development progress has shot through the roof! What used to take half a week was being knocked out in a single day. We've added and fixed more features this past February than all of October thru December in 2025. Truly phenomenal stuff can happen when there's two or three of us chipping away at this daily instead of just one with help on some weekends. 

And for what it's worth, Royal is now considering moving in with us at YotesMark, so this dev house can literally become the YotesMark team's Home Base.

⭐The BGP Alpha1 Build⭐ 

So excited to have this new version of the game for the world's most patient supporters to play. We've clocked our own playthroughs at over 10 hours. And that's knowing all the ins and outs plus never grinding or going off the main path. It's at least 3 times the game we launched with.

We're ignoring all bugs that don't either crash the game or cause you to get stuck. Feedback-wise, we just want to get a sense of the general vibe right now. Too short? Too long? Too hard? Missing something vital? A favorite moment. Something "It would be cool if..." type stuff.

⭐What's Missing?⭐ 

• Cutscenes (it's mostly just text over a black screen)
• Graphics (lots of placeholder art and doodles for buildings)
• Ponatina Form Animations (beyond the original 6)
• Music (some places share audio or play placeholder tracks)
• Fairness (it's very unbalanced at times, but we got it to an almost decent point for testing)
• Stability (try to break it and you probably will. especially in regards to the alternate route stuff...)
• Polish (there's a list of problems and ideas a thousand miles long, but the core of it all is fun enough to shine through as it is right now)
• YOU! (we need feedback on a regular basis to help improve the game week-by-week)

⭐What's Next?⭐

There's plans to do 3 major milestones for the BGP Alpha. 

1.) Barebones Build  (available now)

2.) Feature Complete Build  (weeks from now)

3.) Story & Polish Build  (over a month from now)

After that, we can begin Beta testing with even more of you guys and start hunting down sneakier bugs and getting feedback on refined versions of the game that are worth scrutiny.

And at any point anyone can hop onto our Patreon and get access too (in case you've been waiting around for an actual thing to play all this time). We look forward to hearing everyone's thoughts and using that data to make next month's update amazing!

Thanks for following the development of the Battle Gem Ponies Mane Adventure!

- Tony Yotes, on behalf of the YotesMark dev team