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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 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...

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...

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! 😤🚀 #NewYearsResolution

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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. https://www.patreon.com/posts/almost-november-91825382

That September Demo we promised is finally here! 🤩 Grab a Backers-Only Password from the post on Kickstarter or Patreon to play it right away! [ https://www.patreon.com/YotesMark ] ⭐

Unity has counteroffered this new (far less awful) fee structure:

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...

One 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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!🗞️ https://patreon.com/YotesMark