Equestria Gaming

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Pinkie's Balloon Trip

Considering what's plastered across her flanks, putting Pinkie Pie in a game about balloons seems like a no-brainer. This game from Brian Bullock (which is listed as a beta, despite feeling quite complete) is basically a clone of the NES's Balloon Trip, but with ponies and an online scoreboard. The latter does wonders for replayability of the game, even if the mechanics of lower scores on a name overriding older, higher scores is a bit irritating. Regardless, the game is well-built for a clone game, and like the original, is a fantastic way to spend a few moments if you don't mind dying a lot.

- RedEnchilada

Wednesday, 12 March 2014

Raycord Legends Teaser

Raycord Legends

Some might question why the pony fandom needs yet another 2D platformer when it already has a truckload of them, but this one has an art style reminiscent of the more recent Rayman games and features Discord as its protagonist, a rather intriguing decision to say the least. Hopefully it manages to meet its projected release date of "somewhere in 2014" and isn't just a glorified "scroll past pretty backgrounds" program with minimal gameplay, but eh. The fandom's pulled off some pretty ridiculous things in the past, so why not this?

In case you're wondering why this post is a couple hours late, let's just say that I was somewhat distracted by one Fluffy Wolf Vinyl.

Yet Another Legends of Equestria Open Server Weekend

Legends of Equestria

The open server weekends for Legends of Equestria are fun and all, but have you ever wished they came around just a bit more often? If so, you're in luck; the development team has just announced another one, only a few months after the last.

This time, it corresponds with their appearance at BABSCon, running from April 18th to the 20th. That leaves you with just over a month to get ready for the weekend of getting hopelessly lost in the ~~Everfree~~ Evershade Forest or whatever you play this game to do. Logging in will hopefully be much easier this time, since they fixed an issue relating to that toward the end of the previous open server weekend. See you guys there!

- RedEnchilada

Monday, 3 March 2014

Where's Derpy? 3

Effectively a gamification of the fandom's favourite pastime (aside from participating in drama), Where's Derpy? 3's title practically explains itself, and in an entirely unsurprising manner it's pretty much exactly the same as its predecessors except with new screenshots to examine. Not that this is a bad thing, of course: there isn't really much that one could add to the formula anyways aside from recreating each scene from scratch in Flash and animating it (which would probably make things even more difficult).

- Tuxxy

Friday, 28 February 2014

A My Little Pony Platformer Game

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the next Fighting is Magic™.

- Tuxxy

Monday, 24 February 2014

Review: Stop the Bats!

Stop the Bats!

The pony fangaming scene has a good share of games inspired by particular episodes. Stop the Bats! is one of them, created by Versimer in a mere 8 days using C++ and the SFML library. That's fairly impressive in itself, considering that some fangames use premade engines and still take longer to complete.

But just how good is the game itself? Well, you're gonna have to hit the page break to find out.

Ponykart is Recruiting

Ponykart

I've been waiting for an opportunity to give Ponykart's unofficial revival project some more exposure for a while now, and now the time has finally come. You see, they're looking for some C++ programmers who also have some experience in C# to help them with the port, along with the usual graphics designers, musicians, and even writers (although I still have no idea why a kart racer would need people dedicated to the latter, especially since characters in said games rarely speak).

Interested? Check out their announcement for details on the requirements and how to submit an application, or just read the copypasted version below the break. You might also want to check out their Google Group and GitHub repo.