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 busine...
2022-06-13 23:26:58 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2022-05-29 16:25:53 +0000 UTC
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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 ni...
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!
2022-04-23 01:39:29 +0000 UTC
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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.
2022-04-22 22:37:44 +0000 UTC
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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 thin...
2022-04-10 13:31:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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...
2022-04-05 17:42:43 +0000 UTC View Post
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 p...
2022-04-03 17:51:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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:
2022-02-22 00:00:17 +0000 UTC
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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 wa...
2022-01-20 01:39:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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, ...
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 ent...
2021-12-20 23:12:20 +0000 UTC View Post
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?)
2021-11-20 16:22:48 +0000 UTC
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See what's up with the numbers behind our Combat System in our new Breakdown series video! ⭐
2021-11-20 16:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post
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 lit...
2021-10-19 18:20:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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 roll...
2021-10-14 21:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2021-10-07 14:30:36 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
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In case 75 minutes is a bit much and you just want the news and celebration! 🎊
2021-09-06 14:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostGot a fresh new demo up, with a smotherin' of Bug Fixes for ya!
Every glitch and error we could find since vending at Everfree Northwest.
And you can 2021-09-06 02:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post
The Battle Gem Ponies Kickstarter has ended with 414 Backers that pledged $34,695.50!!
We couldn't be any happier with how this turned out. Flew past every Launch Day ...
The Yotes Games Team will be hosting a livestream on our YouTube channel today to celebrate and countdown the final hour of the Kickstarter Campaign!
Kickstarter's timer is counting down the minutes, and we're bouncing off the walls with excitement and gratitude!
Come join us for chit-chat, cheering, Q&A, crowdfunding reflection,...
2021-09-03 21:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The long overdue June/July Devlog is here! (And in video form!)
From now on we'll be doing these instead of the usual monthly writeups on the Yotes Games blog since its more fun & ea...
2021-08-31 14:22:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Sweet relief!
We made it out alive after all! $25K was definitely a big ask for an unfinished & unknown indie game but after tons of work put in by the entire Yotes Games team and efforts to spread the word through our little community, BGP is set for another year!
One last year to get the game out on digital stores so everyone...
2021-08-29 21:35:12 +0000 UTC View Post
This progress report is a super late one, but also pretty short & simple.
This entire month has been focused around getting this game in front of as many brony eyeballs as possible and it's been working out pretty well, all things considered.
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Hopefully anyone who's been keeping an eye on BGP's development will want to give it a looksee. We're offering all kinds of rewards like getting your own pony drawn, creating a canon character, and all kinds of other stuff only the earliest of you Patrons ever got! (But at a very marked up price)
And this crowdfunding campaign comes with a...
2021-08-05 01:32:11 +0000 UTC View Post
The excitement is boiling over here at Yotes Games! The Kickstarter Preview is up and there's no going back now! In exactly 7 days we lock-in the numbers and content, submit for final review, t...
2021-07-20 06:25:33 +0000 UTC View Post
The Kickstarter is coming up in a couple weeks, and to ensure it's success we've been working hard slapping images of the Battle Gem Ponies up all over social media (in hopefully the least annoying way possible) to get some "Whoa, what's that from?" reactions that lead to an occasional new follower.
The plan is to have them added to ...
2021-07-20 06:18:40 +0000 UTC View Post
The demo has finally been set loose and it's up to us to steer it towards popularity! We managed to get over ten thousand players before, we can do it again!
400+ downloads so far, and counting!
Social media game has stepped up, there's even an official 2021-06-18 03:04:50 +0000 UTC View Post
If you aren't incredibly hyped right now, you really should be. This is a monumental occasion after all! After YEARS of behind-the-scenes struggle, TENS of THOUSANDS of dollars drained from life savings, MONTHS of delays, and an incomprehensible amount of time s...
2021-06-05 19:39:30 +0000 UTC View Post