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Monday, 23 June 2025

Magic Project Friendship Final Version - Arena Mode

Magic Project Friendship — that one with the ponies and the guns, if you forgot — has received an update with the new Arena mode, taking place 2 years before the main story line and putting you in the metaphorical shoes of Bon Bon as she trains to become the leader of the new S.M.I.L.E. under Twilight's rule with her direct supervision.

Please stop looking at me like that. It gives me the feeling that you are really into this.

The story follows Bon Bon working her way up from the bottom to regain her skills as the rightful S.M.I.L.E. leader after losing them during her retirement. The gameplay consists of fighting off waves of enemies in Twilight's Combat Training Program which she stole from Morpheus from the Matrix, a pocket dimension where all enemies and fights and deaths are purely simulations. During these waves your combat skills are tested against increasingly more stacked enemies, and some familiar faces too. Inbetween waves you will go to the armoury to spend your skill points, buy new weapons and recruit ponies into your own squad.

Also the ponies have big funny hats now.

Thursday, 15 May 2025

Magic Project Friendship - Trixie Kills Twilight Sparkle

Play on the Arcade!

Download the SWF (if you have a flash player executable)

Magic Project Friendship is a new mod of Madness Project Nexus. The mod released... today! This is an Equestria Gaming original!

Don't know what Madness Combat is? That maybe is for the better considering the theme of this site. Basically it's like little gray flour sack-looking ""people"" murdering eachother gruesomely... but now it is ponies.

Anyways.

The plot of the game follows Starlight Glimmer breaking Trixie out of jail after being imprisoned by Twilight for the Alicorn Amulet incident—as all good friends would do, obviously. We follow the two quirky mares safely outside Twilight's chambers where they encounter... changelings? The Mane 6 take note of this and split off to investigate, revealing that numerous of their least favorite villains are back again—despite having been reformed like 12 times before or something—and want REVENGE, WOW THAT IS SO SCARY shivers. They have learned from their previous encounters that the Elements of Harmony aren't very good at shutting up villains, so now guns will do the talking.

It is amidst this chaos that the princess herself, in-between the slaughter, feels inclined to lore-dump—EXPLAIN to us about her new project to make ponies more friendly to eachother, the titular "Magic Project Friendship", a spell which she plans to cast on every creature in and outside Equestria. Surely this won't be a major plot element which we will learn the unpleasant details of later, right. Totally and absolutely, but unfortuntaly Trixie disagrees, as she goes on to investigate on her lonesome the intricacies of this Project, because she just cares oh-oh so much about Equestria (she just wants revenge on Twilight Sparkle).

You can watch our playthrough to get an idea of the game on the channel:

Petting EVERYPONY.

Pet Them ALL on the Arcade

I really can't make an exciting or verbose post about this. Go pet and play with them on the arcade.

Sunday, 14 July 2024

RoBorg's Pony Game Microsite

The site's main page used to have a menu for all the games, but it seems to have broken, so here are all the games listed out!

Derpy Silliness 1
Derpy Silliness 2
Derpy Silliness 3
Pinkie Pie Asteroids
Luna Lander
EPIC Starfield
Sweetie Belle... nothing weird here (EPILEPSY WARNING)
Boo Hoo - interactive music video

This is a wonderful gem of the past featuring 8 pony games and interactive experiences exuding raw 2012 energy. All of them are very short and sweet, but here is the rundown:

Arcade Spotlight: Mine Escape by CertaintyPrinciple

Play it now!

Welcome to the very first Arcade Spotlight, a series of weekly posts dedicated to giving a random arcade game a little time in the sun! I've noticed over the years that, with the sheer amount of titles we have, there are more than a few with... less-than-stellar view counts. Let's see if we can't fix that!

Mine Escape, the penultimate pony project of developer CertaintyPrinciple, was originally posted to DeviantArt on July 5th, 2012, making its way to our arcade that same day. A point-and-click puzzle game based on the events of A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2, it features Twilight Sparkle solving a series of puzzles in order to free herself and the real Princess Cadance from the depths of the Canterlot gem mines so they can put a stop to the impending Changeling invasion.

This is quite possibly my favorite game out of all of the ones we have, so I'm super stoked that it came up first. Give it a go and let us know what your final time is! I remember it taking me a... uh, little while to get through, my first time. Won't be hard for y'all to do better than me! i'm dumb and bad at puzzles lmao

Wednesday, 5 January 2022

My Little Pony: Harmony Eclipsed - Game Complete!

My Little Pony: Harmony Eclipsed is a highly enjoyable RPG that puts you in the horseshoes of Princess Luna, along with our other favorite colorful horse heroes, on a quest to rid Equestria of an ever-growing dark magic threat. It's a ton of fun, and there's a lot of content here, though it may be challenging at times (~~most likely~~ because I'm bad at games!) I'm around three hours into the game right now, and there's still so much to do!

If this seems like something you'd be interested in, visit the MLP Forums thread for additional information about the game and upcoming updates. We won't be linking to a static build again like we did in our previous article (whoops!), just in case the game changes again.

Sonic and the Elements of Harmony

Sonic and the Elements of Harmony is a 2D Sonic Fan-game that crosses over with the animated television series we all know and love. It focuses on both classic and modern gameplay elements of a Sonic game and was created in Game Maker Studio 2.3. Originally showed off at the 2021 Sonic Amateur Game Expo, this game has seen a number of improvements and additions, such a Twilight Sparkle as a new playable character, a new stage and some new In-Game dialogue.

Check it out here!

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Adventure Ponies Ported To Atari 8-Bit Computers!

AtariAge thread

Somehow, this seems to have slipped under pretty much everyone's collective radars and that honestly completely baffles me. We're absolutely fixing that right this instant, though.

To say this is a bit of a surprise is absolutely an understatement! We've got ourselves a genuine port of the official, old-timey Hubworld pony game Adventure Ponies to Atari 8-bit computer line coming to us courtesy of the developer Gibstov. It's super satisfying to see these 8-bit styled games actually working on the appropriate hardware!

All the relevant information, including screenshots and a video of the port in action, can be found at the game's thread at AtariAge. We've also provided these below the break as per usual if you're not interested in poking through the thread! You can also play both the original game and Adventure Ponies 2 on the arcade if you're looking to play the original games, just a heads up!

"Metal Gear Friendship" Animation

BrutalWeather's YouTube Channel

So, here's something a little bit different for a change! A wonderful, adorable Metal Gear inspired animated short from the rather talented animator BrutalWeather! Check out the short above, and maybe have a look through the remainder of their animations while you're at it if you have the time!

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Friendship is Epic - 1 Hour Gameplay Video

Friendship is Epic Developer's Website

Jyc Row, the composer and French translator for the stunning Japanese 2.5D beat-em-up Friendship is Epic, recently uploaded an hour-long video of a few members of their team playing an internal dev build of the game showing off some new character gameplay, poking around the game's skill tree, showing off the English and French translations of the game and generally putting the smackdown on more than a few changelings. This game's certainly looking like it's coming along pretty nicely, and I'll definitely be personally keeping an eye on this one!

Friday, 17 February 2017

Gem Hunting #2: Malicious Mansions, Silly Scribbles and Pursuing Pastries

I could've provided some context here, but that wouldn't be nearly as fun, would it?

While we're admittedly a bit light on the news front so far these past few days, I think another small, conveniently-timed batch of previously overlooked horsegames could make up for it a little bit, don't you? This time around, we're guiding our favorite technicolor horses through some assorted shenanigans including malicious mansions, silly scribbles and the endless pursuit of pastries! Check 'em out below the break!

okay yeah i did in fact work the subtitle into the intro paragraph to pad it out. fight me about it in real life why don't you okay gosh.

Gem Hunting: Bubbles, Road Trips and Aerial Stunts

While the site's been somewhat prone to...well, the odd total existence failure now and again, Equestria Gaming has nonetheless somehow managed to be around for quite a long time insofar as the fandom as a whole is concerned. Since it was founded in 2011, we've seen a lot of games and game makers come and go, some of which we've covered and some, sadly enough, we haven't. I personally believe it's more than high time that we rectify that! There's plenty of games, large and small, that we've skipped over the years that deserve a mention, and we're going to start rifling through them here and now !

Admittedly, I don't have any specific posting schedule in mind for these, but honestly, isn't that just part of the fun? Let's go!

Game: Cutie Mark Unmagic

Cutie Mark Unmagic

Hot on the nonexistent trails of the lack of news about season 5 of that one horse show, futzi01 has another one of those Flash games he always makes. This time, the concept is six minigames centered around one-upping each member of the main cast at some part of their special talents, sending them face-first into crushing show spoilers and the endless wait for more drips of information. If all six of the minigames are beaten in one sitting, your reward is a screen ranting about the excessive commercialization of a show designed primarily to sell toys.

- RedEnchilada

Friday, 13 June 2014

Card Game: Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder

Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder

This fandom has a lot of shipping. A ludicrous amount, actually. There are some problems with the shipping, however: it's not interactive, and has a tendency to take itself way too seriously. Fortunately, the shipping present here suffers neither of those problems. Instead, players are treated to a humorous card game with a surprisingly deep level of strategy

Review: My Little Investigations - True Blue Scootaloo

My Little Investigations - True Blue Scootaloo

After a long time in development, with almost no word on progress from the team until recently, Equestrian Dreamers finally released the first case in their point-and-click adventure game, My Little Investigations, titled True Blue Scootaloo. While the game has received its fair share of attention and hype, does the first substantial fruit of the team's labor live up to expectations? Well, that's what this post is for. Check out some rambling opinions on the game across the break.

Note: This review contains spoilers for the case. Read on with caution if you want to experience the game blind.

My Little Investigations Case 1 Released

My Little Investigations

That's right. After almost three years in development, My Little Investigations - the fandom's premier Phoenix Wright-inspired adventure game, from Equestrian Dreamers - has finally released its first case, True Blue Scootaloo. They also have the soundtrack, as well as the source code for both the current version and the previous Java-based version, available for download.

This case has been a long time coming, and I could go on about how excited I've been, but I think I'll save that for a review. For now, I'm just going to point you guys over to their Downloads page to get it for yourself. See their announcement below the break. (Or just read it on their site...)

Neverfree

Neverfree

After playing around with Neverfree for a bit I've come to the conclusion that its creator must be quite the Cave Story fan, as this game's mechanics are highly reminiscent of the indie classic (yes, you can use the rapid-firing weapon as a makeshift jetpack). It could honestly make for a really great game if one were to expand upon it and add some more levels, maybe some more varied enemies/bosses that do more than just pace from one end of the room to the other as well. There was also a particularly crowded spot near the final boss that could lead to the player clipping through the wall if they were repeatedly jostled about by enemies, which one should be cautious of if one attempts to play this.

Oh yeah, the game would really benefit from some music/sound effects. I was also quite pleased to see someone using LÖVE for once; it's probably my overall favourite 2D engine and it feels like there's never enough people who actually use it.

Demo: TWALAGHT SPARKUHLZ REVEHNSHE 2

TWALAGHT SPARKUHLZ REVEHNSHE 2

Coming from Penta Studios, of Waiting is Magic fame, TWALAGHT SPARKUHLZ REVEHNSHE 2 is the sequel to the first game about defending Ponyville from parasprites and other assorted creatures of the forest. The demo released for the MLGD competition contains an introductory sequence, three levels (allegedly; I keep messing up and dying halfway through the second) and five upgrades. Not a ton of content, but certainly enough to discuss a bit, yes?

Ponyventure Demo

Ponyventure

From what I've seen, this is a fairly generic pony platformer with multiple characters and, surprisingly enough, local multiplayer (although I haven't really gotten the chance to try it out yet, as usual). Dunno if this'll go anywhere or not, but Hopeabandoner's other main fangame project looks much more promising so I'll be posting about it next.

He also made this creepypasta named BENT.EXE, but I dunno if I'll ever get around to posting it.

- Tuxxy

Sunday, 26 January 2014

Super Ethical Shipping Climax Demo

Super Ethical Shipping Climax

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Billing itself as a SFW-ish parody of shipping-centric visual novels, the Super Ethical Shipping Climax demo is an awkward jumble of borrowed vectors, annoying placeholder music and plenty of fourth wall-breaking dialogue. This might sound bad, and from several perspectives it leaves a lot to be desired, but to be honest I rather enjoyed this weird little MLGD Marathon entry in spite of (or perhaps partially because of) its shortcomings. Perhaps that's what the developers intended in the first place?

Since this is only a demo there are several missing endings and whatnot, although I hope they leave in several of the blank scenes in which the narrator laments their lack of a visual artist.

- Tuxxy

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Monday, 23 June 2025

Magic Project Friendship Final Version - Arena Mode

Thursday, 15 May 2025

Magic Project Friendship - Trixie Kills Twilight Sparkle

Wednesday, 19 February 2025

Petting EVERYPONY.

Sunday, 14 July 2024

RoBorg's Pony Game Microsite

Sunday, 3 March 2024

Arcade Spotlight: Mine Escape by CertaintyPrinciple

Wednesday, 5 January 2022

My Little Pony: Harmony Eclipsed - Game Complete!

Sonic and the Elements of Harmony

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

Adventure Ponies Ported To Atari 8-Bit Computers!

Friday, 24 February 2017

"Metal Gear Friendship" Animation

Tuesday, 21 February 2017

Friendship is Epic - 1 Hour Gameplay Video

Friday, 17 February 2017

Gem Hunting #2: Malicious Mansions, Silly Scribbles and Pursuing Pastries

Saturday, 28 January 2017

Gem Hunting: Bubbles, Road Trips and Aerial Stunts

Wednesday, 25 February 2015

Game: Cutie Mark Unmagic

Friday, 13 June 2014

Card Game: Twilight Sparkle's Secret Shipfic Folder

Sunday, 13 April 2014

Review: My Little Investigations - True Blue Scootaloo

Thursday, 10 April 2014

My Little Investigations Case 1 Released

Sunday, 9 February 2014

Neverfree

Tuesday, 4 February 2014

Demo: TWALAGHT SPARKUHLZ REVEHNSHE 2

Thursday, 30 January 2014

Ponyventure Demo

Sunday, 26 January 2014

Super Ethical Shipping Climax Demo