Equestria Gaming

Sunday, 3 March 2013

Updated Rise of the Clockwork Stallions Demo

Unfortunately most large fangame projects end up going nowhere or receive cease & desist notifications, but Darkera Studios has shown no signs of slowing down in the development of their second project, Rise of the Clockwork Stallions. Their October demo was somewhat out of date, so they decided to release an updated demo with more characters and levels. The game also uses less RAM than it did before, so it should run better for those of us who are still using older computers.

And before you ask, the team is planning on a Mac release at some point, although it would require a fair amount of reprogramming and would probably be uploaded a fair time after the official release at BUCK.

- Tuxxy

Saturday, 2 March 2013

MLP RPG:Fighting the Unknown Update + Exclusive Gift Code

Fighting the Unknown

It's been over a month since we last posted about Fighting the Unknown, and apparently a lot has been added since then. According to the developer there are 50 new skills with animations, along with 60 new passive skills and whatnot. It looks pretty impressive to me, but since it's such a massive download I'm probably going to have to wait 5 hours before I actually get to play it.

Also, apparently you can use the code EQGWOOT1 to earn a unique item ingame. It only works for the first twenty people to redeem it, so if I were you I would try and grab it immediately. Thanks to my slow rural ISP I probably won't even get to use this unique item myself, but I hope you all enjoy whatever it is that you unlock. Hopefully the game plays nice with Wine...

- Tuxxy

Lauren Faust to Help Make Mane 6's Next Game

Mane 6

Unsurprisingly, Mane 6's negotiations with Hasbro over the C&D of Fighting is Magic didn't go all that well, and as most folks have already heard about Lauren Faust's offering to design new characters for them it should come as no real shock that Mane 6 decided to take up the offer. This means that Fighting is Magic will no longer be a My Little Pony fangame, but take place in its own setting with unique characters and have pretty much the same stuff as Fighting is Magic (with the notable exception of colourful equines).

Also, a while back the dev team behind Skullgirls, Lab Zero Games, offered their engine to Mane 6, but there has been no official response as of yet. I believe that Mane 6 should accept the offer, as this would give them the opportunity to publish their game to consoles and use high definition sprites instead of being limited to 480p. It would mean that they would have to rewrite most of the characters, yes, but they could potentially end up with a higher-quality product by taking this route...

Sick of my rambling on the Skullgirls engine? Then visit Mane 6's original blog post for some more detailed information on the situation, along with a quote from Lauren Faust (and not a single mention of Skullgirls to boot).

- Tuxxy

Lyra's List #11

Welcome to Lyra's List, a great place for anyone interested in making a pony fangame who doesn't really know where to start. For instructions on how to submit, check out this page. The deadline for next Lyra's List is March 31, 2013. Check out this month's submissions after the break...

Play Where's Derpy? 2

In honor of Derpy Day, pepperpunk has released Where's Derpy 2, the sequel to the original point-and-click Derpy-finding adventure. The mechanics are almost exactly the same as the first time around - in each panel, find Derpy, 3 muffins, and Lyra (if she appears). However, there are a few more achievements this time around. Have at it!

- Arctic Lux

Friday, 1 March 2013

Questria Unponified (Sort of)

Questria

After I posted about Pony Civil War earlier today it occurred to me that we hadn't heard from Questria's development team for quite some time, and I decided to visit their website. Turns out that after Fighting is Magic went kaput the devteam was rather shaken (as were many other fangame developers), and today they announced that Questria would no longer be a My Little Pony fangame, but take place within its own universe. As to whether or not Questria will still have ponies remains to be seen, but I hope that they do decide to stick with ponies. Hasbro can't exactly sue everything that contains ponies, right? That's like Mattel suing Matchbox because both of them make die cast toy cars.

So...yeah. If Questria abandons ponies entirely, you won't be hearing anything more about their game from this website. Hopefully that is not the case, but until the developers make things clear we'll just have to sit around and speculate.

- Tuxxy

Pony Civil War

Multiplayer Online Battle Arena games have always been the bane of my existance, because no matter how hard I try I always end up screwing up and ruining the game for everybody else. Even if I'm not very good at MOBAs I know that many other Bronies are quite passionate about them, and I'm sure that you will all be happy to know that a pony MOBA named "Pony Civil War" is currently under development. It still lacks animations and appears to have only one hero (Twilight Sparkle), but I think that it looks fairly promising and could turn into something pretty big.

Also, I haven't been able to find anything about the game's engine, so I'm not sure if it'll work for Linux users like me. If the game is based off of Unity 3 as I suspect it should probably work for all of you Mac fanboys, but hopefully the developer has upgraded to Unity 4...

Update: a sharp-eyed reader confirmed that the game is based off of the Esenthel engine. This means that the game will probably work on OS X, but no Linux support.

If you want more information on Pony Civil War you can head on over to their blog, which has a bunch of screenshots and whatnot.

- Tuxxy