Moves like Wonder Bolt here are an example of the 2010s brony era DNA embedded into this game. ⚡

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.

It was important for us to have multiple save files per game.

One for a first playthrough.

One for experiments and self-imposed challenges.

One for letting someone else play without messing up your main file.

#gamedev #indiedev #monstertaming #rpg

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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.)

I AM NOT A MORON

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

You'll end up battling in all sorts of locations across Pinto. We made special battle scene backgrounds for each one. (These backgrounds will also appear as your current location on the File Select screen.)

Wahoo! This week's Fan Art Friday celebrates Mario! Accept the quest in your quest log to get started.

Apologies for the delay. But unforeseen life events have delayed the release of BGP's Alpha1 release by a couple days.