Why can't this fandom just make good games?
>>27203017
Why can't you?
>>27203024
>I know you are, but what am I.
>>27203017
This fandom is too autistic
>>27203017
Because if i was gonna make a game it wouldn't be a pony game
Banned from equestria daily is a good game... i heard
>making a game of someone elses ip that can be C&D in seconds instead
>>27203017
Because zone is to much of a fagot to make a mlp game
>>27203036
That hardly applies here, you selfish child. You think games fall out of fucking trees or something?
>>27203084
Hasbro has been very nice about fandom works. Only reason they c&d fighting is magic is because they were concerned about it being mistaken for an official Hasbro work. Which is perfectly understandable since it was getting very popular. They're not like kike corporation such as Jew Enix who c&d fangames because they're scared someone will do a better job than them.
>>27203017
yeah... not a single good game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2rH6gQpHec
http://donitz.deviantart.com/art/Story-of-the-Blanks-216207954
http://www.dragon-mango.com/ponygame/
I want newfags to leave
>>27203017
There have been plenty of enjoyable little games, nothing big, but enjoyable. Flash game site level games.
Most of the stuff I liked like My Little Pony: Online and Fighting is Magic got hit by the C&D bat. Besides, it's my opinion that MLP just isn't that great of source material to base games off of, with the exception of graphic adventures
>>27203017
Do you realize how much time and effort it takes to create a "good" game - especially if you're trying to one-man-army it?
And then you have to also keep in mind that you're not going to make any money of your work because it's not your IP, you could be C&D at any time, and you're probably not even going to want to professionally associate yourself with your creation in the future because of powerlevel reasons.
>>27203017
You clearly mean "good free games". Everyone likes having things, no one likes paying for them.
You want a good fucking pony game? Pony up some dough. There will never be a good pony game so long as the people who make pony games are expected to do so for free.
Oh wait, you can't invest. I forgot, you're all NEETs living in your parents' basements.
>>27203017
People have trouble understanding that "professional quality" games take a loooong time to do.
If you do one as a hobby, it will take years.
If you do one as your main job, you will get hit by Hasbro C&D.
If you change the setting to "kinda pony" the fandom will reject it (cf Mane6).
It's just not worth doing anything more than a quick, hastily done game.
>>27203370
Exactly. Why not /mlp/ make our own game. Someone made pol.wad for doom, why not make our own mlp.wad
>>27203333
Your point is good.Your digits are better.
>>27203017
Because a good game would draw too much attention and get C&Ded
>>27203017
GOLDEN VERONICA
>>27203375
HA. I've been where that road leads. Laziness and infighting.
>>27203375
/mlp/ can't get together to make something beyond simple porn art and erotic greentext.
Didn't the VN thread taught you anything?
>>27203017
because making a game is hard, and clockwork stallion is proof people have no idea how difficulty and patterns work.
that game has nearly 2 unplayable difficulties, and checkpoints are often synonymous with game over.
>>27203283
These are much others
That's as good as you can get without getting a c&d
Is there anything at least promising being made at the moment? What happened to pic related? Anyone know about anything else? I heard Tiarawhy was making a dating sex sim.
>>27203751
I am but i'm starting to wonder if stand alone games are better. People keep pming me saying they want stand alone, and others want the sim. It's really conflicting.
>>27203769
We've had a ton of standalone porn games, but next to zero sims.
Go for the sim, those that don't want it can always look elsewhere.
>>27203017
We're all too busy masturbating to pastel ponies.
>>27203780
I'm making one too for Android, although it's all OCs to try and avoid a banhammer from the Play Store. Pic is, as ever, related.
>>27203780
That's what i thought as well, and there haven't been any pony VN really either (i can only think of the phoenix wright one. Are there others?)
>>27203932
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>>27203946
Only other I can think of is Starswirl Academy, and it's generic schoolgirl animu style.
>>27203769
You should just make what you want to make a stick with it. If you let other people get to you, you'll never get anywhere - look at Yandere Simulator Dev. He spends far too much time reading his email and then whining about having to read his email. Solution: Stop reading your email!
But stsly Tiara, do what you want to. That way you'll get it finished. If you're not doing what you want to do but what you think other people want you to, your heart won't be in it.
>>27203946
I started making one because I couldn't actually find any. 1 week after I started I found out about Tiara's and I do believe another Anon on a thread said he was doing something similar.
>>27203954
I'm pondering about the dazzles i had on the backburner as well. I was thinking of taking the dialogue system that i made for waifu sim and using it there to do a small game that's similar to MSA Round 2/1 thing. Maybe like: the dazzles are now running a bed/breakfast, and you pick which of the hosts you want to spend a night with and then there's the dialogue with the dazles talking to you with the sex loops i made.
>>27203972
A real coincidence. Who else is working on a VN?
>>27203559
It taught us to have tighter control on staff and to not have too many people working in the same department.
>>27203333
>you're not going to make any money of your work because it's not your IP,
This is the primary reason. You can't resell copyrighted works.
>>27203983
>The Dazzles running a Bed and Breakfast
I lol'd.
>You enter the reception of a run-down British seaside Bed and Breakfast. A sour-faced girl with garish purple pigtails doesn't bother to look up.
"It's fifty a night, breakfast is between 6 - 6:30, you take it or leave it. No smoking in the rooms, no visitors, no pets, don't ask for a sea view because there isn't one. Sonata does out the rooms at 9:30, so be out by then. Adagio provides entertainment in the evenings singing along to a Bontempi organ, if you call that entertainment."
>You frown.
"Well, this sounds terrible. I came here because this place came highly recommended."
>Aria frowns back.
"It IS highly recommended."
"Well, I don't see why."
"You didn't let me finish. The one service we offer that our competitors do not is that we're three beautiful magical teenage girls and during the night one of us will turn up in your room, suck your cock and then fuck you."
"Oh. Well, that sounds better."
"Room 4. Up the stairs. Don't try and shut the window, it's fucked."
>You turn to go, then remember.
"Oh - can you loan me an iron?"
"Iron's fucked as well."
>>27204331
>iron is fucked
???
>>27204331
I like this, keep going.
>>27204374
That was about it, unless you want the sordid greasy details about Sonanta's attempt to cook a fried breakfast.
>>27204405
sure, i just really like this idea.
>>27203017
I enjoyed minty fresh adventures a lot.
>>27204324
>You can't resell copyrighted works.
But it's not all that difficult to avoid infringing Hasbro's copyright or trademarks. Legends of Equestria, for example, uses no canon characters, and features such locations as "Cantermore", "Ponydale", "the Evershade Forest", etc.
For an even better example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yotesgames.training&hl=en
You play as "Clover", apprentice to "Grand Swirllock the Bearded", and you adventure around "Equica" fighting monsters. No Hasbro/DHX assets, no canon names, so there's no problem - even though this guy is making ACTUAL MONEYprobably not much money, but stillselling the game.
I think the time/work required to make a game is the bigger issue here. There's plenty of people willing to >do it for free, it's just that games take a long time to make. Unicorn Training is "just" a top-down zelda clone, and only has 10 levels, but it took over a year to make according to the dev's blog.
Story of the Blanks and Minty Fresh Adventure come to mind as decent fanmade pone games.
mlpgamereviews.blogspot.ca
Hey teens and young adults. Who wants a free unpopular blog?
>>27203017
>>27203751
The gameplay in this is broken because you have no real attack moves and combos. You just run around, swing your sword and hope it hits. And if it isn't your sword then it's your shittily made abilities that don't seem to change the feel of the gameplay either.
Notice how in a hack n slash or an adventure game the combat is a series of abilities like slams, rolls, kicks, throwable weapons.
While in Horse Demo you could die from a few hits or get injured based on how unlucky you were.
>>27203059
Thank you. Perfect answer. Somebody give this man a cookie.
I'm sorry /mlp/, but most of you have genuine autism and it bleeds into your creative abilities. You lose any kind of common sense, tact, ability to judge for logic and aesthetics.
You need a special kind of dumb in order to create a half of a half-assed game.
Either you do it because you're inept at programming or because you're stubborn and dumb, aka autistic. Because let's face it; autism is a primitive genetical trait found in old races of humans.
>>27204532
I can firmly state that I dicked around in that alpha.
>>27203017
My Little Investigations is pretty good for what it wants to be, and the devs appear to still be chugging along at making case 2. I always wonder why it gets mentioned so rarely.
>>27204569
Funny how there's lots of good art, some amount of good music and fanfics, and zero good games. What an unfortunate coincidence that so many of the artists are normal but all the game devs are autistic.
>>27204459
He could have made a lot more money making his game free and ad-supported. Then offer people the option to buy an ad-free option for that dollar. Play store people will chuck money at a game, but not unless they get to try it first, not even a lousy dollar. Had he gone that route, that game would have way more downloads than 1,000.
>>27203017
MLP gamedev here. Because making games requires more man-hours than any other medium and we can't get paid to do it or risk drawing the attention and C&D of Hasbro.
>>27204928
This. As another mlp gamedev I can confirm most things on this thread. I'm working on a project where I have to compose the score, make the graphics, and code everything. It takes more time than anyone in their right minds could ever dream of. Speaking of which, what are you working on >>27204928 ?
>>27203017
this fandom can make good games but the game devs are too retarded and they don't host their website in france/romania and also often give out their real info so hasbro can c&d their ass
>>27204928
>we can't get paid to do it or risk drawing the attention and C&D of Hasbro.
>what is bitcoin
>>27204569
>>27204652
>some amount of good music and fanfics
are you 12?
Has anyone made a mod for Cities Skylines that replaces all the people with ponies yet?
>>27203017
> stolen Desktop Ponies pixel art
>>27203266
Really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7gQ9EamVfo
I was going to post an archive for pony flash games, but the site is dead.
http://arcade.equestriagaming.com/
>>27204532
I already played Fallout New Vegas
>>27204459
>it's on the app store
Yay! Thanks for the recommendation, anon! This looks really fun!
>>27205067
Legends of Equestria.
>>27203266
>Hasbro has been very nice about fandom works
Compared to other corporations? Definitely. The fact that there are ANY my little pony videos on youtube AT ALL is a testament to that. Try finding any clips of Family Guy or any Sony property on youtube.
>>27204485
>It's dead
I'll probably give it a read anyway
>>27205217
What did this guy do again?
I went to a con once that had some nice WIP pony games on a computer for demo. I guess they never got released because of JewsBro.
...When no one was looking I plugged in a USB stick and grabbed a few.
>>27205721
Insanely good pony videos.
>>27205741
Are they uploaded somewhere else or gone forever?
>>27205745
Yes. He was allowed to re-upload some, other ones are re-uploaded by fans on regular basis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIIuzXjEBLA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_TMtgjQuZI
The real bad thing is that he isn't allowed to make more.
>>27205730
You should upload them, unless you're some kind of pussy
>>27203769
People want stand-alone games because people get impatient when their faps are on the line. (See: pretty much every Patreon-supported porn game ever.) But they'll be mollified by the finished product, I think.
>>27205745
Still somewhat active.
But, no more animated pony for a long time I believe...
>>27206175
He's doing other projects, but is not allowed to make ponies. He said that he'd be willing to, but can't.
>>27206244
I'm sorry, but three month ago, he didn't say so.
>http://ask-thecrusaders.tumblr.com/post/137602864974/about-ask-thecrusaders
"This blog has basically been abandoned in the last months for various reasons. The C&D for my MLP animations being the main one; me wanting and having to focus on something else, having to start creating and thinking about original stuff (which I’m still doing), along with losing a good chunk of passion for MLP in general and the overall need to change things around and turn page."
>>27206371
Well yeah, my info is 5 months old. Lots of things could change.
>>27206371
That blog has a pretty good pony comic posted 2 months ago though.
>>27205130
No, there is definitely good music. I think you're just retarded.
>>27204652
Yeah, it's unthinkable that a project requiring sustained teamwork among multiple instances of all three would be a more massive undertaking than just one example of one of those aspects individually.
>>27203024
He can't help that he is a faggot, what is your excuse?
>>27203017
>implying that there aren't a shit ton of autists that make games to outnumber the actual good games
fegit
>>27205109
All niggers and mudslimes are autists.
But asians are the most commonly known type of autist.
3rdamateur thoughGamedev here.
Making a game is somewhat easy.
Want a tic-tac-toe? Let's go, it's a one day coding if lazy.
Making a good game is hard.
Even a short version of mario like or zelda like or more generaly speaking any GB / NES game is insanely long to make.
Not that much because of programming, your game engine will take a fourth of your time, but because of the content.
Making content is a fucking time eater.
Just a single spritesheet like pic related? Bim one hour left of your budget. Music? Forget it if you don't know how to make some. Story? Damned, are we supposed to do everything?
And then come Anon.
And Anon want some good game.
And Anon calls us autist.
And Anon whines.
But fuck Anon, when I ask you "what kind of game" you sage me.
But fuck you Anon, when we ask music or graphics, we either get nothing or just some asset and you leave.
But fuck you Anon, stop whining and help.
Want a good game?
Dream it.
Plan it.
Write it.
And then, only then, come back here and say, "here is the googledocs, this is the story, this anon make graphics, this one music, and I will do mapping and the writing. Any programmer interested?"
Then, you will have a shiton of autistic programmer ready to code for you.
Yes, I'm swearing.
>>27205083
Why having an host in France change anything?
>>27206921
Guess the sarcasm didn't come through as well as I'd hoped. But yeah, I ordered those examples by amount of effort, to point out the 'surprising' correlation between the rates of "autism" among content creators and the effort required to create that type of content.
>>27207632
You have a good point in general, although specifically on the subject of assets, it turns out there's a ton of decent quality free stuff (CC-licensed or similar) out there if you go looking for it. http://www.opengameart.org in particular has a ton of stuff, tilesets, music, sprites, etc. Nearly all the assets for my game are free stuff I found online, since I'm not that good at art and I'd rather spend most of my time programming anyway.
>Why having an host in France change anything?
Not sure about France in particular, but if you host the servers in Romania or somewhere like that, Hasbro will have a very hard time enforcing their copyrights against you (assuming you manage to remain anonymous).
>>27203017
*cough* Ambient.prologue *cough*
>>27207743
Yo, What's with Romania? We have 1 GB/s connection speed here (and extremely cheap: 5$/month at Digi Mobil)
>>27207747G O L D E NV E R O N I C A
>>27206921
Well that's autism for you. Nobody enjoys working together and commiting to a common project.
>>27207753
Lucky bastard, but I mean more in terms of copyright law and the court system than anything else. Outside of the US and its close allies, it's apparently very difficult for a US company to get copyright-infringing content taken down. Like how The Pirate Bay managed to stay up for years as the #1 destination for movie and music piracy on the internet, because they were hosted in Sweden. They even used to post copies of C&Ds they got from music/movie studios, along with their responses (typically along the lines of "fuck off").
>>27205730
The raycord demo? Or which one? Anyway upload them.
>>27206371
>>27206726
He's not done entirely, in any case.
>>27207743
>http://www.opengameart.org
Woot, they add quite a bit of data here. Last time I visit, there were only three pages of snes likish sprites...
But anyway, no pony content...
And even if deviant art has a full load of vector bases, I'm pretty sure no one want to see it's creation (or even it's pseudo) in an /mlp game.
Even a non-porn one.
But you mark a point here.
>France hosting
Ho, that. Well, we have here a pretty loose definition of using someone's art.
In theory, if it's a parody, you can do whatever you wish.
But sometime, it's not that easy.
>>27207747
Right on time, I see.
>>27207632
Are you an actual decent programmer? Or just a babby who didn't even script in CodeCombat.com
Here you have an actual entire ponygame already made with functioning content in it. Add enemies, more level design, make the running inputs easier, modify the toothbrush and boss fights, etc. Go wild, kid.
Download the decompiler.
https://www.free-decompiler.com/flash/
Right click each link, Save As the swf file then open it in decompiler and hit decompile, you'll get an fla file instead of the swf.
http://dragon-mango.com/ponygame/appletest9.swf
http://dragon-mango.com/ponygame/xmas-title3.swf
http://dragon-mango.com/ponygame/colgate.swf
http://dragon-mango.com/ponygame/Minty/intro.swf
http://dragon-mango.com/ponygame/tardy/PPP4.swf
I know there's more flash games like Fiends From Dream Valley, but I don't have the link to it.
There's also the flash games by Futzi on deviantart, but no one plays those.
>>27206964
I am very, very lazy.
>>27207964
Previous threads:
http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26946092 (April 1)
http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26878509 (March 26)
http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26823064 (March 21)
http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26780392 (March 17)
http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26732830 (March 12)
http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26725636 (March 11)
http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26721712 (March 10)
http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26706303 (March 9)
http://desustorage.org/mlp/thread/26685726 (March 7)
>>27207743
>http://www.opengameart.org
I always assumed that free online textures and sprites were going to be utter wank, so I never even bothered looking. But some of the stuff on there isn't half-bad looking. I imagine it would still be difficult to compile a lot of assets of a consistent style, but thanks for sharing.
>>27207964
>Using flash for real games
Nope, sorry, I do Game maker -for more than 10 years now- for computers games (and android now).
And I'm learning GB's assembly (previous pic somewhat related) and tried some javascript/HTML5 (got something working pretty fast in fact, but only spend 4-6hours on it, but it's very close to the way I use GM)
And for more serious program such as DIP or micro-controllers, it's plain old C.
Sometime Python or oldish VB6 for computer to hardware communication.
To sum up, I'm not up to date at all and neither is flash.
And I'm not ready to help on a huge project (else, I would have been coding procedural generation of everfree's map when they offers me to).
Sorry for faults, it's more than late here.
Will read answer tomorrow on the archive...
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/592328
All I want is a free-roam multiplayer game.
>>27208064
>I imagine it would still be difficult to compile a lot of assets of a consistent style
Search for "LPC" (Liberated Pixel Cup). A while back they made a decent sized base asset pack, then ran a contest where people had to make additional artwork that fit the same style. Then since there was so much LPC-compatible content already, people have kept adding to it even after the contest ended.
>>27208068
>Ditches Flash
>Uses Game Maker
Riiight. You ever tried Corona and Construct 2? They're also easy to learn, but more stable and less memory hungry.
>>27208091
RPG sprites aren't relevant to what I'm doing right now, but I'll definitely remember this for the future. Thanks again.
>>27203017
Well, unlike you guys probably do, I don't have a massive build. Hell, I'm too poor for a desktop. I've been working in the new quad-core pentium (Which is frankly, quite beastly for a mobile processor.) Is there any software that'll be good for this light product? Since I can only grab about 2.16 GHz out of her all the time
>>27203017
Lazyness because of said autism, OP.
If they weren't autistic then they could form teams easier and find their own fucking resources or creatively edit them to fit the bill. But they don't because Gen-Z autists are idiots. But then this wouldn't be the brony fandom if it wasn't full of retards.
>>27208102
Yes, cause I'm a dizzy goat.
But, as far as I know, not that much people can do what I do with GM (3D, network and so on).
Anyway, that was not the point.
If I wanted to create a game today, I would probably learn C++/C# and use some pre-made engine (source, idtech, whatever).
But doing a huge game in C with SDL / OpenGl is probably plain stupid nowadays.
Even multiplatform engine are better than flash for a serious game (don't miss my point, flash can still be used for small games, but keep in mind that it will not work on phones and will very likely be a pain to run in 5 years.
And being crazy didn't mean that I'm wrong...
>>27203017
Because most fandoms don't even get this far.
>>27203017
>>27203024
The scene from I, Robot came to mind immediately.
>>27203017
Because they don't got good programmers like me making them.
because we're not /a/
>>27207632
>why does hosting in France change anything?
Because the laws of the United States don't apply to other countries, although if you really want to get away with murder, host your copyright-infringing content in Russia or China. The developers of Raycord Legends are in Russia, so they couldn't give less of a fuck about a C&D from Hasbro.
>>27204339
The woszit you use to flatten your clothes. Pointed at one end.
>>27203017
well I was planning A FEW games.
Do you want to hear about them?
I doubt ill actually go through with it since it takes 1-2 years and the fandom might be kill by then. But if I do, will you buy it?
>>27209837
Do not seek attention. Merely do, and attention will come - if it deserves it.
>>27209837
You can do a kickstarter+patreon if you want to know what you're working for.
But do take note that we absolutely ignore any kind of crossovers like Raycord, Megapony, Ponyvania, we ignore 8-bit, 16-bit, we ignore Flash, Unity, and we absolutely hate bad graphics paired with bad voice actors.
Your world design needs to be top notch, as well as the story. We've had so many autistic games that we don't want to hear about them anymore.
That is why the video game scene in our fandom is dead and had always been dead.
>>27208064
That guy.
Why did he have to be such a faggot.
Not only is he a hardcore tumblrina SJW dishing bronies all the time (inb4 it's true, he's more the "but they have convention with porn art on display and pedos and kids go there!" kind)
but he actually want to redo the SLHRPG game... Only with his own characters. TWO of the three MC being trans. Yup.
>>27203017
>mfw My Little Investigations is slowy being worked on
>>27204532
thhe demo for that is fun to play, aye
>>27203017
AAAutism is a hell of a condition to have, OP.
http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/forum/2
http://armorgames.com/community/forum/47/flash-games/
https://www.kongregate.com/forums/4-game-programming
>>27203017
Why can't the gaming industry just make good games?
It's called faggotry, OP.
>>27211166
You took the words right out of my mouth. I fucking hate crossover games in the fandom. What is so fucking hard about taking a week to plan out and create an original idea for something like this? And it doesn't have to be said and done with the idea of your game, I've seen projects that have changed 3 times over the course of development.
>You can do a kickstarter+patreon if you want to know what you're working for.
that's a great option for getting a project booted up... just for the love of god please don't sell your pony game in the end. its just going to create a shit storm of negativity with players and hasjew.
>we absolutely hate bad graphics
yes and no... Yes it can't just be 2 frames of animation for walking and stuff, but at the end of the day its about core mechanics. Think about old game consoles. Sega master system vs. NES... Sega MS had major advantage with hardware, but NES sold over 8x as many units.
>>27203017
> Using other people's IP
> Using other people's pony sprites
> Using other people's graphics
> using other people's game engine
"YAAAH WE IS MAKING OUR ORIYINAL GAME DONUT STEEL OR ELSE!!111"
>>27213646
>Being so bad at originality that you have to use Hasbro's specific ponies.
>Being so cheap that you can't hire some deviantart artists to do custom animations and assets for you
>Being so lazy that you can't modify the assets to suit your needs.
>>27214680
Bump?
>>27203932
So it's basically Dark Skyes but not a scam? Where do I follow this?
Still waiting for pic related to be finished
here the demo
https://www.mediafire.com/?4kouv6y3rcvvvga
I am actually working on MLP version of Hearthstone but having problems with some coding.
I'll fix it to a beta test for you guys soon.
>>27217281
Oh god same. I'm honestly thinking this will be the best pony game we can have.
The solution is mods on existing games
The challenge is changing characters from anthro to pony
Did everyone forget about Silent Ponyville?
http://silentponyville.blogspot.com/p/demo-christmas-special.html
>>27217747
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxziAXSuqNg
>>27203017
You have a shitty taste
http://stabyourself.net/orderoftwilight/
>>27203242
No we don't.
However being hard to make doesn't excuse the fact that the games that get made are fucking shit and deserve to be insulted.
>>27203333
>Do you realize how much time and effort it takes to create a "good" game
If you aren't going to make a good game then don't make a fucking game at all you talentless shit.
Yes it is hard, boo hoo, if you aren't going to try to make something good then don't make anything and stop trying to pull the "its hard so accept my shit" bullshit.
>>27211166
>Triple Dubs
I'm going to argue with you regardless.
Kickstarter and patreon are good options but with no publicity at all (being a literal who) you're probably not going to get any backers anytime soon (without a demo/trailer). That and doing so is probably going to have Hasbro breathing down your neck.
>ignoring crossovers/emulated styles of another series
I can somewhat understand this to a point.
>ignore 8-bit, 16-bit, Flash, Unity
Well that pretty much fucks over any small man/solo teams trying to make a pony game within a few months - a year. Seeing how you're asking for 3D(+ a custom engine probably), that would take AT LEAST 2 years for something decent but pretty short (if one had a good sized team).
>Bad Graphics paired with bad voice actors
This one I can understand to a point to but see it this way.
Good Voice Actors aint cheap, and sometimes may be difficult to work with.
>Top Notch World design/story
If one were building/modeling their world after equestria, they wouldn't have much creative vision to expand out (lest they be cursed for not sticking closely to the show's canon)
>Top Notch Story
This one at best is feasible. It would have to be different/new tho. Something willing to push boundaries. Because I have the feeling Anon in Equestria/New Evil entity aint gon cut it for anyone.
But with these standards set, at best, 2-3 years a good game could POSSIBLY come out and not get shut down by Hasbro.
Tell me Anon, would anyone wait that long?
>>27217834
You've been spoiled by AAA wankery. Nothing is going to please you.
That said, I'm still waiting for this, for the music alone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NirFyHS-Guk
So I had a thought the other day. What's stopping Hasbro from putting out special fan-work licenses to those projects it deems worthy? Gather it all under some umbrella label, like "My Little Pony Affilly-ates" -- and rather than being forced to Do It For Free® and risk a C&D anyway, they get to monetize it and Hasbro takes a substantial slice of the pie. (Probably most of the pie if we're being honest; it would have to be more beneficial to Hasbro than an outright IP license.)
It would require a few hires in the way of QA and community manager types, but on the whole, I think they'd stand to benefit.
>>27217977
Someone email this to whoever it in charge of whatever this falls under.
>>27217977
It'll never happen, even though it's a good idea. Shapeways managed to wangle an agreement with 3D pony prints though, so that shows it CAN be done.
>>27213551
Spot on about core mechanics, Anon. I recently had a blast playing "Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt". It's free on Steam, pic related. It was made in a 3-day game competition I think.
You can't call those graphics AAA, nor is it long. You can play through it in a hour, easy. Point is, it was great fun, it stuck in my memory fondly remembered, and every now and then I play it again - all this because the gameplay works.
I'm not saying everyone would like the same game as much as me, but it has positive reviews on Steam. If your core game is fun, winrar. Anything else is gravy.
>>27211166
>hate bad graphics
But Banned From Equestria Daily is awesome despite this.
>>27218498
Chiming in, bfeqd is overrated. It was only amazing back in the day because it was the first time anyone made a pony porn "game", using the word as loosely as possible.
Sure it might still be enjoyable now to most oldfags. But those are some heavily tinted nostalgia goggles to be peering through when you revisit it.
>>27217816
Are you retarded? What is this Atari garbage?
>>27217977
Kind of an idea would scare the third partyformers a bit. Hasbro has already approved of the third party Transformers with very little C&D given out. This is similar to third party plushies and other merch like 3D printed ponies. When it comes to fan works for video games or animation, I assume it's because unlike Transformers which is for all ages, MLP is still there "for kids" series and they're stricter for it in the Vidya scene.
>>27217816
Man that game was cool
>>27217977
>>27218542
My suspicion is that Hasbro does not easily hand out licenses because My Little Pony is a brand marketet to little girls, while mlp video games would probably be more focused on a male, older audience.
Considering the huge amount of sexualisation happening in the pony fandom I can understand why Hasbto wouldn't want to mix their brand with that.
>>27218604
I can laugh at the thought of old gray-haired executives baffled at the surge of pornography concerning their show in the recent years.
>>27217842
>"its hard so accept my shit"
What the fuck are you talking about? And who are you even addressing? Because that's not at all what my post said.
Making a good, polished game is a massive undertaking. Putting together a reliable team to make ANY game isn't something you just do on the fly, and trying to build a team around a niche-subject will doubtfully be any easier. And if you're working alone, you're looking at such an ocean of work that it'd seem unlikely for you to dedicate that effort to a pony game rather than an original idea.
>>27217870
>>27218627
Pinkiefags truly are retarded.
Story of the Blanks was pretty good. There is a story someone made based on it that makes it even better
>>27219019
So you like the Ponk is what you're saying?
>>27203017
I'm happy that Lauren Faust made fighting the herds
>>27219052
>pretty good
I'd say average. The idea wasn't half bad, but it ended up being your run-of-the-mill retro-wannabe creepy game.
There wasn't enough 'game' in that to sustain it. Still a good idea, don't get me wrong, but it could have been much better
>>27218604
It's not sexual projects that get C&D'd, though. Hasbro would rather not be involved with those in any way, I think, because "Hasbro Sues Over My Little Pony Porn" doesn't make for great representation in the media.
Besides, this is why you'd get QA and community manager types to go over the assets with a fine-toothed comb, to make sure it adheres to the terms of the license and meets the licensor's quality standards.
>>27217842
>If you aren't going to make a good game then don't make a fucking game at all you talentless shit.
Do you actually think that having no games at all is better than having a crappy or mediocre game? I don't see how anyone would be better off if, say, LOE didn't exist.
>Yes it is hard, boo hoo, if you aren't going to try to make something good then don't make anything and stop trying to pull the "its hard so accept my shit" bullshit.
"Waah, it's haaaard" is not a valid excuse for game devs to ignore all criticism. But also, you are not entitled to free stuff. If someone makes a game and you think it's shit, tell them why, and maybe they'll fix it. But if they don't, don't get all pissy that they aren't spending their own time and energy making the free stuff that YOU think they should make.
>>27219903
You're banned. For being an obnoxious stubborn, annoying, idiotic and asshole pinkiefaggot.
>megapony
There's absolutely nothing novel about this one. The artist did a nice job animating megapony's walk cycle and shootan' n' all that, and the Get Weapon sequence looked great, but the rest is just a basic Mega Man fangame. The only thing pony about it is the art and music, which still borrows heavily from Mega Man. Oh, and the shitty backstory. Couldn't even have Dr. Light as a pony, or Roll? Do you realize how fucking QT a pony Roll would be? Naw, let's just replace them and Wily with Celestia and Discord. YAWN.
That aside, it was challenging for someone playing on keyboard, and I did enjoy beating Purple Smart and getting her power, but this fan game still didn't blow me away or anything. It's just Mega Man with a coat of pony paint, that's it. The only thing that would bring me back to it is the core Mega Man challenge, but props to the designers for having the shop and save functions.
>ponyvania
I'm going to gather you mean Ponyvania: Order of Equestria, and not the tiarawhy game. If so, same deal as Megapony, only worse. Rather than choosing to make a decent pony parody of some of the original Castlevanias, or even Symphony of the Night, the devs choose one of the more recent and boring titles in the franchise: Order of Ecclesia. Now, I played this game and did enjoy it for what it was, but nowhere near enough for me to want to play a fangame of it, let alone a pony fangame. Hell, the original's not enough good enough for a replay. Story's also shit, pass.
>>27221196
STOP DISAGREEING WITH ME
MY OPINION IS THE TRUTH
>>27221252
>legacy of the ponies
Goddamn. I didn't think learning how to ZXAS would be that difficult, but the game is so punishing you'd probably have a much better time just playing with a gamepad. This level design in this one starts out really simplistic, so you wouldn't think much of it from watching the trailer, but it gets more clever and devious as you go on. So devious it made me wanna quit at the "Honesty" level which is filled with so many fucking invisible blocks. It's basically a big bouncy platforming dungeon; not as claustrophobic as insanely Metroid, but with similar obstacles to it and as hard as Mega Man. Plus all the enemies are from Adventure of Link. With some piranha plants taken from Mario. It's simple, not amazing, would play again. But if you hate obstacle dungeons then you're going to hate it.
![rainbow_dash_attack_by_chiefwrigley-d3g8zrg[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/3y2V55R.jpg "rainbow_dash_attack_by_chiefwrigley-d3g8zrg[1].jpg")
>>27203017
I like pic related, even though it's just a re-skin of Robot Unicorn Attack.
>>27221280
>clockwork stallions
Playing as Twilight is okay, playing as Rainbow Dash reminds me of Bubsy, and I hate this game the most because of the voice clips and sound effects. The difficulty is faked, you can either get hit randomly or not get hit at all if you constantly shoot your projectiles before the clockwork robots enter the screen. The easter eggs were fun, but ultimately shallow because of the lack of good mechanics, no triggered events, crappy level design. There's more to this game, but what little I played just doesn't encourage me to keep going.
I've... never seen a game where you can jump 7 times in a row, but each jump only means 1 foot higher. Plus you can't jump out of the water more than once.
You can't crouch to duck from the bullets.
You can only shoot horizontally for some reason, not diagonal or vertical... at least you can shoot whole moving, i guess.
The enemies only move from left to right and randomly shoot a fast moving projectile without warning. They don't have any melee attacks, special moves, animations. They just run into you.
There's 75 levels, but they all feel the same because of the horrible gameplay mechanics.
Overall shit story, awful gameplay, lots of content which I can't feel happy unlocking. Don't play more than 10 levels of it.
>>27221358
It's better if you just unlock one of alicorns and play as them
>Octavia in the underworld's cello
A horror puzzle point & click game happening inside a haunted mansion. This could have been good if it copied Story of the Blanks and expanded on the story and content. Because SoTB was at least original, probably the only game we ever had not based on something.
The 8-bit animation is decent. The voice acting and dialogue is kinda jarring. The puzzles are.... doable, at most.
But the content is eh and eh. It doesn't count as an adventure explorable point and click because 1) The action happens in one setting, a mansion. 2) It's a heavily-oriented puzzle point and clicker. You will die a lot from trying every nook and cranny in the mansion. Which you need to in order to advance the game.
Plus the idea isn't original, it's heavily based on the NES games like Sweet Home.
Just like Legacy of the Pony was based on Legacy of the Wizard.
But at least they aren't direct crossovers like Megapony and Ponyvania are.
Still, would it be too much to ask of them if they based their games on locations from the cartoon show or tried to stay in spirit of the show via fitting genres? A fun easy explorable game about making friends and adventuring with them would be what people have in mind when thinking about the cartoon show.
>Legends of equestria
Where is the content? This is just Second Life with ponies 2.0
http://ketrindarkdragon.deviantart.com/art/My-Little-Pony-Sprites-476202043
Who wants a decent Applejack sprite sheet in 16-bit?
>>27219052
Not much of a game though. "Press X for action" just isn't enough of a mechanic to constitute interaction. The game needed more mechanics and then more content.
As it is now Derp Till Dawn(Derpy Slenderman game) is more of a video game than *Story* of the Blanks.
>>27203017
They did. It's called
Banned From Equestria (Daily).
>>27221606
That is actually really good.don't click his gallery it's full of donut steel tier sonic OCs
>>27221606
Does he have more? Like the boar enemy? I know that he used to have a game in he making, but every recruit he got was a lazy do-nothing.
https://youtu.be/pNOwINX45QE
Legenda of equestria
It a mmo game
And look good
>>27217620
there are some fun youtube vids of pony mods that dd replay value to old games, some better than others, but agreed, the community should focus on mods
Wolrld of Tanks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhPMfp5hJHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX38rQXpiS4
skyrim
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d573a_gMm2g
GTA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfMpHy-AweI
and of course Minecraft
we should search for more and make a list
>>27222140
you should see this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrR9G9Vmq
>>27204485
Is it gluten-free ;)?
>>27203017
We had Fighting is magic
The problem with this fandom and games is the corporation behind it, if you make a good game, it will become popular, the more popular a game becomes, the more likely you are to get a good dose of C&D
Man, hasbro sucks dick
>>27222128
>looks good
And that's the only thing about it that's good. There's hardly any quests or anything to do, or at least I couldn't find much. Last time I played I started on a quest, and gave up after an hour of fetch-questing. I heard from other people that that particular quest takes about six hours to finish, just running all over the map from one NPC to another, and the only reward is a cosmetic item for your character.
Uhhh guys why does it say that Equestria Gaming's domain has expired?
>>27222651
It's been that way for like a week now. RIP
>>27222651
>>27222675
It'll be back
>>27222651
And why didn't Equestria Daily make a post about it?
Europe time here we go
>>27222651
Someone send this to eqd
>>27222651
Oooh does that mean that any random anon can claim the site with all of its content?
>>27226135
That's not really how it works, but they can claim the name and put their own content on it. There's a lot more to it than just buying it right now though, there's some weird protocols for expired domains.
