Ohhh, it's coming... FINALLY after months of delays, the Combat Demo is nearly complete!
You'll be playing the new and improved #BattleGemPonies within a week!
Come bask in the pre-launch hype with us on this ...
2021-05-31 21:04:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's a little something extra for ya'll! We put up all the songs we've been working on for the game up on Soundcloud so you can give it a listen and get hyped about the final version of this game where you'll get to hear it in context.
First big piece of news is that the Yotes Games team is planning to attend Everfree Northwest in a few months as vendors to promote the BGP Kickstarter that will be going on throughout that entire month! How cool is the timing on that?
A det...
2021-05-15 23:31:43 +0000 UTC View Post
This is it! The home stretch! We're basically in like, the Beta of our Pre-Alpha if that inception makes sense. The biggest mysteries and implementation challenges are behind us as far as the scope of this demo is concerned. All that's left is to ...
2021-05-03 19:12:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This past week we've welcomed a new member to the scrappy Yotes Games team!
ConfidentCow will be helping...
2021-04-17 23:17:04 +0000 UTC View Post
After some heartbreak, debate, accounting, re-planning, and interviewing new potential team members, we have officially decided to delay Battle Gem Ponies one more time.
Stretching our personal budgets to the absolute limit and hold...
2021-04-10 06:20:13 +0000 UTC View Post
We're in the final bug fixing and polishing stage of development of the Battle Gem Ponies Combat Demo! This little PvE prototype shows off the basic mechanics of the game and gives players a taste of the gameplay we want to ...
2021-03-18 21:59:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We're in the final stages of development for the Combat Demo! We're implementing as many attack & effect animations as possible to make a good first impression, and we're balancing the more complex gameplay mechanics we've finally got working....
2021-02-28 21:59:17 +0000 UTC View Post
We're chipping away at it still, one feature at a time. Goal is to get the updated combat build in your hands next month. Now, it may not be done in time for the beginning of the month, but it should be fully functional &...
2021-02-18 04:14:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Battle Gem Ponies is gearing up for making a HUGE commotion all year long! We have some cleanup to do, but afterwards we're off to the races polishing things up.
Kickstarter Drafts, Patreon makeovers, YouTuber contacts, batt...
2021-02-02 00:58:21 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's main priority has been an overhaul of the battle system on the code architecture side of things as we come up with better ways to implement something that lets us have fine-tuned customization over each of the 100 general effects/calc...
2021-01-17 04:36:06 +0000 UTC View Post
This year sure has been one big heck... But looking back, I'm proud of what we've managed to build since January. This game is miles further along than I ever could've reached on my own trying to solo dev.
It's exciting to think about how mu...
2021-01-02 00:21:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Download the Battle Gem Ponies Christmas Demo on Itch.io using your Patreon login to get a download key for Window...
2020-12-25 00:18:59 +0000 UTC View Post
You're looking at an all-new Yotes Games as of this month. A full-time indie team speeding ahead towards one milestone after the other!
Progress is super speedy compared to how it was before and every day we cross off multip...
2020-12-02 01:28:54 +0000 UTC View Post
We're still polishing up the VS menu as of this week, and it seems like we'll be diving back into the battle scene to work on those features more starting this Friday.
Biggest To-Dos on our plate this November:
We're entering November with an all-new team setup, changed plans (for the better), a miles long checklist of finished tasks, a new potential source of funding, and cute little pony sprites you have to come see!
Time to show off what a coupl...
2020-11-02 03:04:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Today marks the end of the two-week colossal crunchtime of three of us here at Yotes Games working around the clock on BGP! And great googly moogly did we get a LOT done.
A more detailed post is coming at the end of the month, but in s...
2020-10-20 01:20:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Wild leaps in progress and productivity as we're settling into the flow of being a team. All just in time for the biggest game dev session yet. Next month is going to feel like half a year's worth of work done in just a couple weeks compared to ra...
2020-10-01 17:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Been a sorta quiet month so far as I'm diving into some repetitive placeholder animation tasks and file organization while once a week the programmers come together and bust out major progress on the next feature on our list.
We've got a few...
2020-09-15 21:39:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Been quite the busy month over here at Yotes Games. A whole feast of features to show to you about this fine August of progress. ...
2020-08-31 00:00:44 +0000 UTC View Post
We're getting pretty good at this teamwork thing. Splitting up duties between 3 developers and focusing hard on implementing features.
For example...
Chroma Ponies
My entire past few weeks have been d...
2020-08-22 06:11:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Nice to have a crunchy month to work on this day after day. Things are really starting to shape up around here. Visions of running a full-fledged indie studio get clearer all the time now that I'm enjoying a taste.
This month's major milesto...
2020-08-01 23:33:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Big month so far. Getting a new programmer up to speed, hosted the first in-person meeting since January to get the team acquainted and unravel the backend workings of the game. We'll be meeting like this every Friday and having Discord checkups e...
2020-07-18 01:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post
If you're curious about the header, that's us playing with the super saiyan style arua Ultra form ponies should have. We're thinkin' the top leftmost Vinerva has the look we're going for.
STATUS
Unemployment checks ar...
2020-06-16 01:39:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Download the Battle Gem Pon...
2020-05-21 00:27:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Doing my very own EDM fueled crunch night after night over here to get things ready for initial launch JUST 3 DAYS FROM NOW!
As an example, all yesterday (9am to 3am) was spent making sprites for ALL 360 moves<...
2020-05-17 21:14:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Doing a soft launch of a merch store this weekend, opens for real on the 20th but if you really want some official BGP stuff ASAP you can order some RIGHT NOW!
2020-05-08 01:58:08 +0000 UTC View Post
We're mid-apocalypse as showtime approaches! I'm sure April 2020 has been rough for pretty much everyone. And the team here at Yotes Games is no exception.
Spritework, cut budgets, major losses, and hard lessons finally learned. It's ...
The T-Shirt design is complete! I commissioned the services of renowned brony & pokemon fandom artist Dawnfire (who I've been a fan of for years) to get a cool-lookin shirt mad...
2020-04-17 21:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Some crazy new decade we're having, huh? Should come as no surprise now that delays and scrapped plans are happening left and right, even here at little ol' Yotes Games, thanks to ya homeboy COVID-19.
Get so...
2020-04-01 03:52:08 +0000 UTC View Post