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Mid June Progress Report (Let's Get These Ponies in a Row)

Things are finally back to normal here at Yotes Games as of last weekend, and the team is back to whipping these pixel horses into shape! Unfortunately there's not much to show visually this time around since it's mostly been paperwork, code, and business conversations getting done lately. 

We planned on stalling things out with a video release yesterday to go alongside the Summer Games Fe...

Late May Progress Report (DevLog Delay, Development Continues)

Some family situations involving visiting parents, an overseas wedding, and other irl distractions for different team members at different times have cut into BGP time quite a bit this month. So things are a little delayed, but still moving. Because there's always at least one of us chipping away at this project around the clock.

We intended to have the long overdue DevLog out by now, but it's ...

Mid May Progress Report (Leaps and Bounds in Quality!)

This game just gets cooler by the day! We're more jazzed up to work on this than ever now that we're working on things that can be seen and played with on real devices instead of just test scenes, spreadsheets, and whiteboard doodles.

Every Saturday the team gets together and we basically game jam out a bunch of small tasks all in one night, so those tend to be the most satisfying workdays.

And there are so many little improvements to talk about, that perhaps it's bes...

We'll Be Vending at Everfree Northwest 2022!!

Just got the news that BGP will be vending once again at Everfree Northwest!

We're bringing back the demo booth in full-force with a much more polished build to show just how far we've come in the past year!

https://everfreenw.com/

We're so, so HYPED to see people's re...

Late April Progress Report (Rapidly Adding Features!)

We implemented 3 major core features within the last 2 weeks! 

We've got leveling up animations, the Paper Mario style upgrade select, and an intuitive way to customize these new stats in VS Mode.

We've also got pony capture mechanics!

2022-04-22 22:37:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Pinto Isle Overworld Demo Available Now for Patrons!

The Battle Gem Ponies Revamped Overworld Gameplay Demo is FINALLY here!

We want to thank all our supporters for the immense patience that's been afforded to the Yotes Games Dev Team. We've finally reached that precious milestone where entire features are each being added and polished within a week so things are getting much spicier as far as stuff we can show off and let people play!

Game's still on track for a late 2022 release, and you ca...

The Pinto Overworld Demo is Here!

Backers, rejoice!

The overworld demo is finally here for you all to enjoy! Feel free to play it, tell us what you think, or even stream it on Twitch and YouTube. At this point, more than anything, we want to know what you think of the improvements so far. This here is the foundational overworld we will be building the rest of the game off of after all.

You can find download links to Play over here: 2022-04-05 17:42:43 +0000 UTC View Post

New Demo Coming VERY Soon...

The Yotes Team has been hard at work pulling 10 to 16 hour work sessions daily since the start of March to get this Overworld foundation up and running. (Our lead programmer Psyaryu especially, since he's in charge of resolving most of the bugs we find.) 💻

Last night we finally got to a point where all the features we promised back in January were implemented and everything seemed ready to go. But after running our computers overnight to get the builds rendered out i...

February Progress Report (Backer Demo Finishing Touches)

A new backer demo will arrive next week!

We're putting the finishing touches on all the foundational overworld features developed so far. With the intent to deliver all the things promised back when the Kickstarter was wrapping up.

Features such as:

Even with all that, there's still much to do before releasing the next big open public demo. There's entire m...

January Progress Report (Some Cleanup Required)

We've been working especially hard on a level editor tool (any of you with access to our Daily Neigh posts can see we've been chipping away at this for a long while now) and getting things to a point where we can smoothly, quickly get things placed where we want them and customized to exact specification. 

Hard part is making it not just work, but also be clean enough to comb through for bugs. It...

BGP Devlog #4 (Hotfix TARTARUS!)

New Devlog Hotfix TARTARUS! is now on YouTube, check it out!

After chipping away at development tools and setup behind the scenes, the Yotes Games team is back with an (admittedly late) update on what we've been up to! 

In short, things like new scenery, a debugged overworld, and more videos breaking down specific mechanics can be expected as we charge full-speed ahea...

December Progress Report (Tools & Foundations)

To get the overworld stuff working we've been chipping away at some Unity editor scripts to make setting up the game objects you interact with a lot more streamlined than before. 

Default settings that can fill themselves in to save time, foolproof settings so we can't enter data that'll lead to bugs, and Dropdown Box/Drag n' Drop entry fields wherever we can to make certain we can see how each and every piece of the game is connected from a distance and at a glance.

Here's a...

November Progress Report (Leveling Up All Over)

After TONS of revisions, I think we're finally getting the hang of this video production thing. And once we start a pipeline churning those things out we can keep you guys informed on what's going on in a more visually interesting way. (cuz who has time to read, right?)

(I'm telling ya, we're going next level with the effects in these videos. 👀)

You can watch our latest creati...

Making Our Own RPG Combat Formula | Breakdown

See what's up with the numbers behind our Combat System in our new Breakdown series video! ⭐

October Progress Report (Surveying & Planning)

Surveys & Paperwork

A lot of dev time has been spent on the paperwork side of things this month. Especially when it comes to charting out who gets what rewards and marking down customization answers from the surveys.

Heck, even making the surveys took longer than expected. On the Kickstarter side of things we literally had to recreate each question and selectable option for every reward tier then do it all again for the ones with Add-Ons enabled. After that th...

BGP Patreon Rewards Survey!! 💎

Thanks for all the patience you guys. Getting all the backer rewards sorted has been eating up a lot of dev time this past month, but it's nothing we weren't prepared to take on. Now all that's left is to gather a few answers to questions we've been meaning to ask you.

Fill this out at your earliest convenience and we can get the ball rolling on all that reward stuff! (If you backed us on Kickstarter, you will have gotten a more detailed version of this questionnaire by...

BGP Devlog #3 (Combat Update & Crowdfunding Surveys)

Progress we've made since the Kickstarter ended!

Glad to have this huge game feel update out into the world, and looking forward to something even more awesome next month.

BGP October Update: New Combat Overhaul Demo on GameJolt!

BGP demos just got a second home over on GameJolt! Give it a look, play the newest 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!

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