General Board in Battle Gem Ponies

Well, this household certainly got a little prettier over time. 🍵 (The Haze House of Jade Pass) #BattleGemPonies #gamedev #pixelart

Putting your opponent to sleep is a dirty trick, but an effective one.🥱😴

One of the most common lower level Status attacks in #BattleGemPonies is Death Glare.

It's pretty powerful too, especially early on when stats are all small numbers and GP is most precious. #pokemon #mlp #rpg

In the #BattleGemPonies Arrival Story, Alpha ponies will appear after you've caught their base form. Come back to these same spots in the postgame and you may find new Alphas of the other local species in the area.

(As well as Alphas of the 3 starters...)

Here's a mysterious bug that's persisted for years. Gotta figure out what tells the Tsunami particle effect to bounce off enemies like that. And why it only happens SOMETIMES. 🌊

(No other special move particle effect has this quirk.)

Got a whole handful of features done today. It's really nice when our second programmer soars overseas to us and we get to go HAM all weekend on the project. Feels like a real indie studio with the three of us giving it our all in the same room.

Getting particle systems like this to work was surprisingly tricky. Especially when it came to making it all flip properly when the opposite combatant uses the same attack.

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame #monstertaming #rpg

Each pony has DOZENS of expressive animations. That's why it takes so long to get each one from single concept sprite to finished in-game.

(Aseprite's the tool used to get these pixels moving around so nicely.)

The same attack can come in different colors depending on the pony using it. #pixelart #animation #mlp #indiegamedev

It's an interesting challenge getting ponies of varied size to fit onscreen together. #gamedevelopment