Battle Gem Ponies | Month One Patch 🩹🕹️⚙️

 

Another big bug fixing patch for Battle Gem Ponies has arrived! 
And you can still find the game and all its social media channels on the YotesMark Linktree!

This one finally addresses the biggest issue with the mobile build noted in many reviews. Those darn touch controls! You can now reposition, resize, and adjust the sensitivity of the virtual joystick to make overworld movement more comfortable. 📱

New BGP Music Channel on YouTube! 🎵

 

Starting today, you can listen to the Battle Gem Ponies soundtrack as often as you like on YouTube! 🎶

Check out the brand new YotesMusic channel and Subscribe for more surprise music drops on your Home page ~ 🎵

https://www.youtube.com/@YotesMusic

Battle Gem Ponies | Week One 🥳📅

It's been a week since launch and a new Week One Patch [1.0.3] is set to soon go live everywhere! (As of this post it's up on Windows already!)

And as for how sales are going? Amazing. Our best release yet, beating both of Unicorn Training's launches (2014 & 2024) by a mile. We've closed out Day 7 with 1000+ copies of BGP being played by folks out there! (And still ticking upwards by the hour ⬆️👀)

That's just over a thousand people across Mobile App Stores and PC's Itch.io after being in the Top 50 charts across the board for a few consecutive days.

More details on this whirlwind of a week below.

🗣️📢 Battle Gem Ponies is Now Available on Google Play!! 🤩📲 | (Sorry for the Delay!)

 

Android users, rejoice! The holdup has ended and Battle Gem Ponies is yours to download.

📲 Go and get BGP on the Google Play Store!! 🎮

And be sure to leave your thoughts in the reviews after playing! (We get to see your feedback and the game gets boosted in the store when you do.)

Battle Gem Ponies | Day One 🩹😀📈🎊

 

If you haven't heard, Battle Gem Ponies finally came out yesterday! 
And you can find every link ever for it on the BGP Linktree!

Players quickly let us know about some brutal bugs that snuck their way into release. But now we've SQUASHED the biggest ones and still have the rest already on our radar.

Get details on how launch is going below.

Launch Day! 🎊 Battle Gem Ponies has been Released!! 🎉🦄

It's finally out, guys. You can download the long awaited Battle Gem Ponies on Windows, iOS, Android, Mac, Linux, and even Amazon Tablets! 

You can check out the Launch Trailer on YouTube (it premiered in the 2024 Monster Taming Direct this morning) if you wanna hype yourself up even more!

Every backer has been sent the download keys ordered since the Kickstarter began 3 years ago. (And if ANY of you are having trouble redeeming them, reach out to Tony Yotes!)

I won't bog things down with paragraphs today, just get to playing! And leave your thoughts in comments and reviews, we want to read every single one!

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.

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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Available Now: The New Battle Gem Ponies MAGFest Demo!

 

New #BattleGemPonies demo is up! 

Jam-Packed with improvements based on feedback from #Magfest2023!

Play It Here! 

yotesmark.itch.io/battle-gem-ponies

The 2022 Everfree Demo has Arrived!!

Come see the demo we spent the past year building from the ground up! 🌎

The New Kickstarter Anniversary Demo is finally available on Itch.io! 🎮 

This here is the demo we just debuted at Everfree Northwest showing the brand new overworld and improved battle mechanics for the first time.

Download the Demo!

The BGP Ultra Pony Demo is HERE!!

 

Patrons & Backers, check your email! 💌

The new Ultra Form Preview Demo is finally available on Itch.io! 🎮 

Just read the latest Backers Only post on either Patreon or Kickstarter and you'll find the password to gain access:

Download the Demo!

Get Your Access Key!

The Pinto Overworld Demo is Here!

Patrons & Backers, check your mail! 💌

The New 2022 Overworld Preview Demo is finally available on Itch.io! 🎮 

Just read the latest Backers Only post and you'll find the password to gain access:

Download the Demo!

Get Your Access Key!

BGP October Update: Now on GameJolt!

BGP just got a second home over on GameJolt! Give it a look, play the newest October build, and maybe even join our little community forming over there.

And if you wanna see what's new, just check out the patch notes on the latest build below!

Battle Gem Ponies is LIVE on KICKSTARTER!! 🦄

Hopefully anyone who's been keeping an eye on BGP's development will at least give it a look. We're offering all kinds of rewards like getting your own pony drawn, creating a canon character, and all kinds of other stuff only the earliest Patrons ever got.

And this crowdfunding campaign comes with a New Free Demo too, so pretty sweet deal all around.

Check Us Out on Kickstarter

or

Download the Newest Demo

Thanks for following the development of Battle Gem Ponies, btw. One of the best parts of making this game is knowing we won't be the only ones who get to play it.

Battle Gem Ponies Combat Demo Tour

 

Made a walkthrough video going over the game's development history and unique mechanics. (Timestamps included)

Showing how a Pokemon Uranium inspired MLP mashup turned into a fully-fledged commercial indie effort. As well as all the special little touches that makes BGP an interesting take on the Monster Tamer genre. Check it out and give our YouTube channel a Subscribe while you're at it.

We're gonna start posting a lot more content very soon.

The Battle Gem Ponies Combat Demo is Here!!

 

If you aren't incredibly hyped right now, you really should be. This is a monumental occasion after all! After YEARS of behind-the-scenes struggle, TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars drained from life savings, MONTHS of delays, and an incomprehensible amount of time sitting in front of computers yelling "WHHHYYYYY"... Yotes Games is proud to present...

The Battle Gem Ponies Combat Demo

​Our first public upload in 3 or 4 years after starting this entire project over after tragically losing every project file for the 2017 build. Since then this game has gone from a solo-indie project to a team-powered labor of love and it's looking all the better for it! 

We truly cannot wait to hear what you think of this battle system we're creating. 

Go ahead and give it a try! 

(It's playable on Android, Windows, Mac, and even Linux)

Bugs are being noted as we march toward our Kickstarter in August​. We'll be diving headfirst into remaking overworld gameplay for the next couple months, so your feedback on this half of the game will fuel us til then. Feel free to share BGP around with anyone you know that could be into this sorta thing. It's the start of something very fun over here...

More updates to come!

Battle Gem Ponies (May DevLog): Demo Drop Date!

Ohhh, it's coming... FINALLY after months of delays, the Combat Demo is nearly complete! We're taking the next couple days to review the whole thing one last time, but we finally scrubbed it clean of all the terrible game-breaking bugs that would've made such a bad first impression. 

You'll be playing the new and improved Battle Gem Ponies within a week! So long as no nuclear disaster strikes central Florida within the next couple days, we should be able to keep that promise. Come bask in the pre-launch hype with us below the break! ~

Battle Gem Ponies Christmas Demo! (Available Now!!)

Download the Battle Gem Ponies Christmas Demo on Itch.io using your Patreon login to get a download key for Windows, Mac, and Android!  The download page will only appear if you use the link above to get your key.

Now before you dive in, let's reel back expectations once more. This is a super buggy work in progress that we're still polishing up for February.

Many features are still unfinished so you're likely to run into rough looking animation, strange audio issues, moves that don't work as expected, buttons that were supposed to be hidden, and crazy-looking placeholder text.

We aim to release an update to this Patreon build on a bi-weekly basis next year, and begin releasing a public demo updated with new content every month starting February 2021.

The Patreon exclusive demos will include prototype mechanics (sometimes with debug controls) and half-implemented ideas being worked on for upcoming public releases way down the line. So consider this an early-access pass to the same game build the devs are using for testing.

Main additions this time around are the Pony Customization & Battle Setup Menus!

The complete version of this game is coming (eventually) to the App Store, Google Play, Amazon Apps, Itch.io, and other PC platforms. In May we'll be launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise enough money to ensure we finish development in a timely manner (by hiring a lot more help). We truly have our hearts set on finally being finished by the end of the coming year.

We thank you for understanding that this is a sneak peek at the tangled web we're currently attempting to turn into a quilted masterpiece. Now, as a Christmas gift straight from our hearts to yours, enjoy the newest playable build of Battle Gem Ponies!

- Tony Yotes, on behalf of the Yotes Games Team

First New Build of BGP in Over 2 Years!

Available to the patrons out there keeping development going for so long. We're opening the curtains a bit and letting some of you inside to get a better look at what we're working on. this here is the very beginning of a very fun project.

Download the Battle Gem Ponies Combat Demo on Itch.io using your Patreon login to get a download key for Windows and/or Android. The old demo will still be available on the same page as before until the public Combat Demo release.

More details on this Patreon Exclusive preview release and future public releases below.