My Little Game Dev Marathon Pt. 2

Announcement & Rules

 Some of you may remember the My Little Game Dev Marathon which was held earlier this year, and I'm (would say "we're", but the others aren't here so...) happy to announce that they've recently launched another one. The requirements for entries are fairly simple: at least 1 level playable level, bare essentials, decent graphics, no R34 content, and finally the marathon logo should be present somewhere within the game. The deadline is December 30th: so if you're interested in participating then you should probably get started soon and have your project ready before then, where they'll pack all the games together and send them to various prominent fansites for reviewing.

More detailed information can be found on the thread at http://mylittlegamedev.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=1105&pid=5933

 Being the only active poster on this site makes me feel rather lonely sometimes. Wonder when Enigma Sage and Arctic Lux will come back...

My Little Game Jam has begun!

Competition Website

Why are you reading this? You're already behind! Yes, the first round of My Little Game Jam started four hours ago! You've only got until this weekend ends (midnight Sunday to Monday UTC, or 4:00 PM Pacific Time on the 7th, for all my Seattle bronies) to complete your game. It's certainly not too late to start - but you must have your chaos-themed My Little Pony fangame completed and submitted by the deadline. Here are the rules, shamelessly copied from their front page:

• All assets and game logic must be created during the weekend of competition. 
• The contest is individuals only. You have to work alone.
• The game must follow the theme announced at the beginning of the competition (chaos).
• Code and assets must be open-sourced and added to the submission.

Caught flat-footed? Never fear: you may miss the contest, but any 48 hours is a perfectly good time to make a pony fangame in my book. I'm thoroughly jazzed to see what you guys come up with, and I'm certainly looking forward to raving about the winners come next week!

My Little Game Dev Marathon Compilation

My Little Game Dev Marathon

 Our affiliates over at the My Little Game Dev forums recently held a marathon event, and the results just came in. 11 games in total were completed, along with 6 unfinished projects and 6 additional games just thrown in for the heck of it. That brings us to a total of 23 new games, most of which we will be reviewing in the nearby future.

 The entire compilation can be downloaded here, but below the break we have a list of the games along with descriptions, screenshots and whatnot.

Completed Projects

Cannonista

Platform: Flash/Windows

Creator: l3gionnaire

Description: You play as pinkie. getting shot out of a cannon, collecting cake.

Download

Equestria War Skirmish

Platform: Windows

Creator: Dark_X

Description: A demo for a simple RPG with only a Skirmish mode.

Download

Help Snowdrop

Platform: Windows

Creator: Vanni

Description: You are blind and need to do various things. Multiple endings. There's not much else to say.

Download

Luna Wander

Platform: Windows (Blender Game Engine)

Creator: jach-marsdonpony

Description: A 3d sandbox game where you play as Luna as she spends her 1000 years on the moon. 

Nothing but rocks, stars and a ball, but the moon isn't as empty as you first thought...

Download (x32) (x64)

My Little Pony Adventure (unnamed game)

Platform: Flash

Creator: SonicFFVII

Description: Ponyville has been hit by a spell casted by an unknown character causing everypony to vanish through portals scattered in ponyville going to weird areas of candy, fabric and more to save all the ponies who are captured in a stone prison and find who has been capturing all the ponies. Twilight and her friends were saved by twilight's protection bubble spell and didn't vanish and turn to stone but as they go through the ghost town of ponyville they find that the portals have been created by ponyville landmarks such as town hall or sugar cube corner.

Download

Pinkie or Not Pinkie

Platform: HTML5

Creator: shieldgenerator7

Description: Play as Twilight as you try to destroy all the fake Pinkies and save the real one.

Download

Pink Pone Action

Platform: Windows

Creator: Anna

Description: Oh no! Alligator has been kidnapped! Pinkpone must travel across the land to rescue friend!

Download

PONISU

Platform: Windows

Creator: Vanni

Description: It's NASU from Yume Nikki. With pony. If you have played it already, there's nothing to explain. If you don't, you jump and collect stuff. Simple. To understand everything else, you need to play Yume Nikki.

Download

Primaeval Threat

Platform: HTML

Creator: Oracions

Description: An HTML gamebook with about 120 pages. Walk the World Custodian Techna through the Ancient Pyramid, fighting traps and ultimately the big bad (unless you get him over to the good side, of course, as is common in MLP)

Download Play Online

Rare Adventures

Platform: Windows

Creator: manfartwish

Description: A exploring shooter, a parody and homage to old atari games like adventure.

Download

Shh (joke game)

Platform: Flash (Stencyl)

Creator: Vanni

Description: Just read the title.

Download

The Moon

Platform: Windows (although builds for other platforms are possible via the Source Code)

Creator: JunkerKun

Description: A short visual novel about Luna's time on the Moon. First episode (this one) has "Escape the room" game type elements.

Download

Unfinished Projects

Apple Party

Platform: Windows

Creator: Wishdream

Description: None provided, and I get errors when I try opening this in Wine so...yeah. Also, I'm not 100% sure if this screenshot is from this game or not. :/

Download

Mega Mare (cancelled by team)

Platform: Windows

Creator: Unknown

Description: Probably has something to do with Megaman.

Download (New) (Old)

My Little 1-Up

Platform: Probably Windows

Creator: Most likely Wishdream

Description: Could be anything.

Download

Pipsqueak's Thunder Plunder - The Pretend Game - The Game

Platform: Yup, Windows again

Creator: >Wishdream

Description: Some game with Pipsqueak and pirates. Looks really promising, but still a work in progress. Also, have more gameplay footage.

Download

Rainbow the Dash - Cupcake Pickup

Platform: A commonly-used Microsoft operating system.

Creator: Chances are, it's probably Wishdream.

Description: Sweet Celestia I'm so bored...

Download

Winter Make-Up

Platform: Windows. What else would it be? AmigaOS?

Creator: Somebody.

Description: This game most likely involves Rarity.

Download (regular) (GMS build)

Special Additives

AttorneyOnline: My Little Mercs Full Build

Platform: Windows?

Creator: Not sure.

Description: Folks on the Cloudsdale group tell me that it's basically an online version of Phoenix Wright with ponies, so I'll have to take their word for it.

Big Fat Download

Princess Civilization

Platform: Windows again.

Creator: I forgot his name 3:

Description: Some 4X strategy game that we reviewed earlier.

Download

Equestrian Crisis

Platform: I'm getting kind of sick of writing "Windows" all the time.

Creator: Dark_X

Description: A 2D platform adventure/sandbox using various MLP:FiM characters. Use Shift+C then type in 'mylittlegamedev.com' to unlock some things. Recommended to play with a friend!

Download

The Unknown

Platform: Windows (Blender Game Engine)

Creator: jach-marsdonpony

Description: You wake up in a dark forest. This can't end well...

Download

Rainbow Dash in Sonic 2's Emerald Hill

Platform: You should know by now.

Creator: Some Sonic fanboy

Description: Ew, Sonic.

Download

...And it's over. Finally.

My Little Game Dev Marathon

My Little Game Dev Marathon

 The friendly folks over at the My Little Game Dev forums figured that they should hold their own game development marathon, and unlike the more well-known My Little Game Jam this event lasts for two whole weeks starting today, giving you plenty of time to work on your dream fangame. There isn't a required theme in this event: you just need to show up with a completed game by the end of the event that does not feature R34 (although creepypasta is allowed, thankfully). Shame I probably won't have my pet project fangame finished in time...ah well, at least it should be out sometime this year.

Want more details on the contest? You can find them here, and once you've created a game you can submit it to this thread: http://www.mylittlegamedev.com/thread-768.html. Have fun!

LIVE:Legends of Equestria 24 Hour Livestream Challenge

Update: the event is now over, and it seems that they got most of their work done. Thanks for watching everypony!

The Legends of Equestria 24 Hour Livestream Challenge is now LIVE! In this amazing event you will get to see the creators strive to recreate the entire Everfree Forest in 24 hours. Do you think they will succeed? Personally, I think they shall fail, but if you want to be optimistic you can go and cheer them on.

Hope you enjoy the stream!

Legends of Equestria 24 Hour Livestream Challenge!

The team behind Legends of Equestria (and the original Equestria Online before the team split) recently sent out an announcement for their "24 Hour Livestream Challenge". They intend on creating the entire Everfree Forest area for the game during that event, which includes "buildings, plants, NPCs, creatures, and the map layout." This must-see event will start at 2PM EST on April 14, and will end at the same time on the 15th, all which will be shown live at http://www.livestream.com/legendsofequestria.

For more information about Legends of Equestria please see their website at http://www.legendsofequestria.com/ or their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/legendsofequestria. Hope to see you there!

24 Hour Spring Break Marathon is LIVE!

The 24 hour spring break marathon is live now, and will be until 12 pm EST tomorrow. Since they're apparently showing an unreleased trailer for MLP:Rise of Vicis at some point during the livestream I would advise watching at some point if you're interested in their project. So get on down there and watch at http://www.livestream.com/gypzsepiclivestream, or just use the embedded player on our website!

24 Hour Spring Break Marathon

From sometime in the afternoon April 6th at 12 pm EST to April 7th at somewhere else in the afternoon 12 pm EST a couple of fellas are holding a 24-ish hour gaming marathon. Now, these happen all the time and without getting posted, so why are you putting this up, you might ask. Well, the thing is at some unspecified point during the livestream they will air an unreleased trailer for MLP: Rise of Vicis. So even if just for the sake of watching that new trailer I encourage you to visit their livestream around noon on April 6th, and watch until your eyeballs fall out of your head from staring at your screen for so long (unless you've got matchstick eyes, or have a bladder of steel).

Xtux, out!

My Little Game Jam: Mini Game Jam

Mini Game Jam

 The folks over at My Little Game Jam have decided to hold monthly contests called "Mini Game Jams", and unlike the main events there is no requirement for the entries to include their source code (although the game must still be made from scratch). Apparently one started earlier today, and it lasts for 48 hours. If you have an awesome idea for a fangame, now is the perfect time to create it (unless you want to wait for the next full-sized game jam that will  start later on this year). Shame I wasn't already busy with my own fangame, or I would participate in the event myself.

 Oh yeah, and on a somewhat unrelated note it seems that the My Little Game Dev forums are going to stay down for a couple days while its creator sets something up (think it was a new domain name or something).

MLGD Marathon Compiliation (Or Not)

 When Wishdream announced Part 2 of the My Little Game Dev Marathon, he said that sites would have to wait a couple days after the event's end to post things while he whipped up a compilation video. Thing is, "a couple days" turned into two bloody weeks, and the video purposefully leaves out several key games to make room for ones that were either a part of the previous marathon or not even entries at all, but separate games that he just decided to throw in there. I'd say that's more than a tad dishonest: kind of makes me wish that I'd never agreed to wait for this in the first place (especially since it comes out on Sunday, which of all days is supposed to be my day off).

Given how poorly things were handled I'm not even going to bother posting the video, so I'll just post the games separately and give them the attention they deserve instead of shoving them all into one big compilation post.


Edit: slight change of heart, I'll put the video down here anyways.