Battle Gem Ponies (May DevLog): Demo Drop Date!
Ohhh, it's coming... FINALLY after months of delays, the Combat Demo is nearly complete!
You'll be playing the new and improved #BattleGemPonies within a week!
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Battle Gem Ponies Official Soundtrack (WIP Preview)
Here's a little something extra for ya'll! We put up all the songs we've been working on for the game up on Soundcloud so you can give it a listen and get hyped about the final version of this game...
2021-05-25 23:34:35 +0000 UTC View PostMay Progress Report (Conventions are BACK ON!)
First big piece of news is that the Yotes Games team is planning to attend Everfree Northwest in a few months as vendors to promote the BGP Kickstarter that will be going on throughout that entire ...
2021-05-15 23:31:43 +0000 UTC View PostApril DevLog: Animating Attacks
This is it! The home stretch! We're basically in like, the Beta of our Pre-Alpha if that inception makes sense. The biggest mysteries and implementation challenges are behind us as far as the scope...
2021-05-03 19:12:17 +0000 UTC View PostApril Progress Report (Growth & Prep)
This past week we've welcomed a new member to the scrappy Yotes Games team!
2021-04-17 23:17:04 +0000 UTC View PostA Major Change of Plans
After some heartbreak, debate, accounting, re-planning, and interviewing new potential team members, we have officially decided to delay Battle Gem Ponies one more time.
Stretching o...
2021-04-10 06:20:13 +0000 UTC View PostMarch Progress Report (Almost There...)
We're in the final bug fixing and polishing stage of development of the Battle Gem Ponies Combat Demo! This little PvE prototype shows off the basic mechanics of the game and...
2021-03-18 21:59:07 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary DevLog: Animating Attacks
We're in the final stages of development for the Combat Demo! We're implementing as many attack & effect animations as possible to make a good first impression, and we're balancing the more com...
2021-02-28 21:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostFebruary Progress Report (Don't Hold Back!)
We're chipping away at it still, one feature at a time. Goal is to get the updated combat build in your hands next month. Now, it may not be done in time for the beginning...
2021-02-18 04:14:04 +0000 UTC View PostBGP (2021 DevLog): Headfirst Into a the New Year!
Battle Gem Ponies is gearing up for making a HUGE commotion all year long! We have some cleanup to do, but afterwards we're off to the races polishing things up.
Kickstarter ...
2021-02-02 00:58:21 +0000 UTC View PostJanuary Progress Report (Battle Code Revamp)
This month's main priority has been an overhaul of the battle system on the code architecture side of things as we come up with better ways to implement something that lets us have fine-tuned custo...
2021-01-17 04:36:06 +0000 UTC View PostBattle Gem Ponies (December DevLog): Sayonara, 2020!
This year sure has been one big heck... But looking back, I'm proud of what we've managed to build since January. This game is miles further along than I ever could've reached on my own trying to s...
2021-01-02 00:21:14 +0000 UTC View PostBattle Gem Ponies Christmas Demo! (Available Now!!)
Download the Battle Gem Ponies Christmas Demo on Itch.io using y...
2020-12-25 00:18:59 +0000 UTC View PostBattle Gem Ponies (November DevLog): The New Order
You're looking at an all-new Yotes Games as of this month. A full-time indie team speeding ahead towards one milestone after the other!
Progress is super speedy compared to h...
2020-12-02 01:28:54 +0000 UTC View PostNovember Progress Report (Architecture Construction)
We're still polishing up the VS menu as of this week, and it seems like we'll be diving back into the battle scene to work on those features more starting this Friday.
Biggest To-D...
2020-11-15 22:21:06 +0000 UTC View PostBattle Gem Ponies (October DevLog): A New Frontier!
We're entering November with an all-new team setup, changed plans (for the better), a miles long checklist of finished tasks, a new potential source of funding, and cute little pony sprites you hav...
2020-11-02 03:04:48 +0000 UTC View PostOctober Progress Report (Colossal Crunch)
Today marks the end of the two-week colossal crunchtime of three of us here at Yotes Games working around the clock on BGP! And great googly moogly did we get a LOT done.
A more detaile...
2020-10-20 01:20:46 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember DevLog: Major Buildup
Wild leaps in progress and productivity as we're settling into the flow of being a team. All just in time for the biggest game dev session yet. Next month is going to feel like half a year's worth ...
2020-10-01 17:55:17 +0000 UTC View PostSeptember Progress Report (Look at Us Grow!)
Been a sorta quiet month so far as I'm diving into some repetitive placeholder animation tasks and file organization while once a week the programmers come together and bust out major progress on t...
2020-09-15 21:39:45 +0000 UTC View PostAugust DevLog: Gettin' Stuff DONE!!
Been quite the busy month over here at Yotes Games. A whole feast of features t...
2020-08-31 00:00:44 +0000 UTC View PostAugust Progress Report (VS Match Teams)
We're getting pretty good at this teamwork thing. Splitting up duties between 3 developers and focusing hard on implementing features.
For example...
Chroma Ponies 2020-08-22 06:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post
July DevLog: Yotes Games Team
Nice to have a crunchy month to work on this day after day. Things are really starting to shape up around here. Visions of running a full-fledged indie studio get clearer all the time now that I'm ...
2020-08-01 23:33:04 +0000 UTC View PostJuly Progress Report (Create All Humans!)
Big month so far. Getting a new programmer up to speed, hosted the first in-person meeting since January to get the team acquainted and unravel the backend workings of the game. We'll be meeting li...
2020-07-18 01:54:01 +0000 UTC View PostJune Progress Report (Art Focus)
If you're curious about the header, that's us playing with the super saiyan style arua Ultra form ponies should have. We're thinkin' the top leftmost Vinerva has the look we're going for.<...
2020-06-16 01:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post
May Progress Report (Anticipation)
Doing my very own EDM fueled crunch night after night over here to get things ready for initial launch JUST 3 DAYS FROM NOW!
As an example, all yesterday (9am to 3am) w...
2020-05-17 21:14:11 +0000 UTC View PostYotes Games Merch Store!
Doing a soft launch of a merch store this weekend, opens for real on the 20th but if you really want some official BGP stuff ASAP you can order some RIGHT NOW!
2020-05-08 01:58:08 +0000 UTC View PostApril DevLog: The World is on FIRE!!
We're mid-apocalypse as showtime approaches! I'm sure April 2020 has been rough for pretty much everyone. And the team here at Yotes Games is no exception.
Spritework, cut budgets, maj...
April Progress Report (Recovery & Hope)
The T-Shirt design is complete! I commissioned the services of renowned brony & pokemon fandom artist Dawnfire (who I've been ...
2020-04-17 21:17:27 +0000 UTC View PostMarch DevLog: Corona Con Cancellation Craze
Some crazy new decade we're having, huh? Should come as no surprise now that delays and scrapped plans are happening left and right, even here at little ol' Yotes Games, thanks to ...
2020-04-01 03:52:08 +0000 UTC View Post