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July 2025 Update - Food Benefits, Detriments; and a Brand New Dialogue Compiler

Hello once again. As work on Milestone Build 2 continues, the village is getting just a little more robust. Apples and mushrooms will be freely available to pick, and now they actually affect the p...

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June 2025 Update - Snack Break

Hi! Got another progress update for you on the upcoming Milestone Build 2, which focuses on ponies' new ability to eat stuff; so bring your appetite!

As a reminder, this Patreon does ...

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May 2025 Update - O P T I M I Z A T I O N

Hello once again. I am back, and what better project to sink my teeth into with Tales From the Herd than perhaps one of the most boring and frustrating: optimizing the game. So if talking ...

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April 2025 Update – Fixes to Milestone Build 1, and the Road to Milestone Build 2

Well! Here we are: the first milestone build has been out for a little while now, and I'm glad to have seen so many fans enjoy their time in this little sneak peak of what Tales From the Herd will ...

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A Quick Update

Hey! I hope you've been enjoying Milestone Build 1, if you're a Wayfinder and have early access. I also appreciate all of the bug reports that have come in, and have already gotten around to fixing...

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WE'RE LIVE!



I've uploaded the latest version of Milestone Build 1 to itch.io just now, and you should be able...

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March 2025 Update – Milestone Build 1 Release

Wow! This was a long time coming. But the first milestone build, and your first chance to enter a proper village in Tales From the Herd, is finally here. 2025-03-30 17:20:38 +0000 UTC View Post

The First Game Alpha is Finally Releasing!

I have been hard at work on putting the finishing touches on Milestone Build 1 – Tales From the Herd’s first major alpha release – and you can still expect a regularly scheduled update on dev...

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February 2025 Update – Looking Sharp

Hi! Another month of progress for you here, and a pretty good deal of it at that – I'm glad things seem to be going at a steady pace again. And that may just be because finally, after over a year...

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January 2025 Update – Questing

Here's the first update of the new year, and I'm pretty happy with the momentum I've regained in the last month... especially after 2024 ending in a bit of a slump. No point in wasting more time ge...

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2024: Year In Review

Just over a year ago, I released the official reveal trailer of Tales From the Herd. Having extremely limit...

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December 2024 Update – Making a New Friend

Hello! We're just about in 2025 here, which means these posts have been happening regularly for over a year now. Sometime soon I would like to reflect back on everything that's been added and chang...

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November 2024 Update – Fancy Maps

Here we are again, another month gone by, and another update. Like I mentioned last month, I'm still in the process going through a bit of a change in my living situation, and so development has be...

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October 2024 Update – Getting Lost on Purpose

Hey! Sorry I'm a little late here, and unfortunately that's not the only complication that's occurred this month. First is that I took close to two weeks to visit family out of state; and second is...

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September 2024 Update - Good Morning, and Good Night

Another month gone by, another progress update I have to share with you. With the milestone village complete, I'm getting to focus more tightly on specific features and mechanics – which for Sept...

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August 2024 Update - The First Complete Village!

Hello! Here we are once more, with another update on Tales From the Herd – and this is exciting, because complete villages now generate in my development build! There are 20 unique acres of land ...

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July 2024 Update – World Persistence

Hey! Welcome back again.

This month I went ahead and added in a handful of spooky new forest tiles into the village generation, as well as a bunch of little improvements and additions to the ...

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June 2024 Update - Prologue 1.5 is Out Now

Back with another monthly update – and apologies for being a little late, I ended up busier than I was expecting to be last couple of days.

2024-07-02 17:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post

May 2024 Update - More Physics, Gravity Stuff, Sliding – and the Return of a Side Project

Here we are once again; I hope things have been well for you.

The overwhelming focus of work on the game this month has continued to be on gravity and jumping, which I'll have a note about in...

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April 2024 Update - New Village Sections, Randomization, and Jumping!

Hello once again. I'm happy to report that progress felt pretty solid this month, with lots of additions and improvements made on both the village as a whole, as well as the player's interactivity ...

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March 2024 Update - The First Village

Hey there! I hope you've had a good weekend, and hopefully had an opportunity to spend some time with family.

This month I actually spent a little over a week out of the state and away from m...

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February 2024 Update - Connecting the World(s)

Hey again. I hope you're doing well. I'll jump into the normal updates in a moment, but if you'll allow me to take a brief little detour before that...

When I first starting working on Tales ...

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January 2024 Update - Advanced Village Generation, Time, and Making a Video Game Inside of My Video Game

Hello again! Back with another quick little update. Up front, yeah, I am making the bold and perhaps somewhat odd claim that an entire game can now be created inside of a pony's dialogue window. Bu...

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December 2023 Update - Seeds, Villages, and Pony Brains

Hey there! I hope you've had a nice holiday, and are looking forward to the new year.  I've been pretty busy between the game, work, and trying to spend time with family, but have made some pr...

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A Quick Update

Hi! I know it hasn't been that long since the full Steam and 2023-11-30 01:56:10 +0000 UTC View Post

Addressing the Elephant in the Room

First of all, thank you for the support Tales From the Herd has already received. I'm just getting started, and to already see so many kind comments and excitement from people has been wonderful. I...

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Support & Rewards

I intend to always keep this Patreon as a free source of news about the development and upcoming plans for Tales From the Herd. And while I plan to work on the game for the foreseeable future regar...

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The Road Ahead

Tales From the Herd, a game where you can create your own character and befriend a colorful cast of ponies – some, who may feel quite familiar – is my dream project. With it, I aim to tell a la...

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