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Important Update from the Devs ⚠️

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:39:00 +0000

Due to the excessive amount of bugs found in the latest build that took many years to create, we have henceforth decided to abandon the Battle Gem Ponies project in favor of starting a new clean-slate project featuring cybernetic bumblebees at war. 🐝

We'll be utilizing the code stability of the Unreal Engine so that we never have to experience a backlog of 400+ errors again.⚙️

Thank you for your support and understanding. 💜

Building Battle Gem Ponies (2015 - 2025)

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:17:00 +0000

An article was posted chronicling the development of BGP up to now!📰

This editor (BGP superfan Shay Hobbs) did some deep research on this very blog! Neatly summing up the decade long development story (with details even I was beginning to forget!)

Give it a read to quickly catch up on the journey so far or enjoy a trip down memory lane.

Battle Gem Ponies Alpha Playtesting Begins Today! 🌟💎🌟

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:38:00 +0000

Gather around! It's finally playable! 🎉🎮 Battle Gem Ponies is coming along nicely and we're happy to announce we can finally conduct the first backers-only playtest of Act 1!

Go see the latest Patreon post to get your key to the download!

We know you guys have been waiting YEARS for this, right alongside us. It's time we pull back the curtain and let you guys see what we've been up to since launch day on mobile back in September 2024.

Now there's at least a dozen hours of new gameplay to enjoy!

Sound Fun? Then Join the Playtest! 🎮(details below▾)

🏮Happy New Year of the Fire Horse!🔥🐎🔥

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:07:00 +0000

🏮Happy New Year of the Fire Horse!🔥🐎🔥

(We have to mean it this time. This is our YEAR!)

💌 From YotesMark, with Love, Happy Valentine's Day ~💘

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:00:00 +0000

💘~ We're Feelin' the Love, Can't Thank You Enough for the Support ~💘

Progress Report: First of 2026! 🆕📅

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:13:00 +0000

Okay. A few weeks into the new year now. And how are we doing? Well, not bad. But also not finished. We charted out a schedule for the new year without taking into account all the magical random distractions personal life can deliver and all the bugs of features past rising up to haunt us once more.

The game is gaining new features fast but we really need to take time to play with them thoroughly because each time we do we discover some gaping flaw that could ruin a player's experience (usually via a softlock or game crash). The end results of this three-day weekend of crazy effort are nothing to scoff at.

I can't believe how quickly the game is springing to life lately. It looks so good and feels so snappy and awesome to play! There's still a lot of polishing we need to do before calling it a "Beta Test Build" but we're really getting there exponentially faster.

Get the full Progress Report on the YotesMark Patreon (it's free for all to read this time)!

BGP Progress Report (End of 2025🎄)

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 21:41:00 +0000

Got a big devlog to close out the year with. Tons of excitement to come with Act 1 right around the corner. Backer Playtesting begins soon, so get ready! 🎁

> Read the full thing on Patreon <

BGP's Fall 2025 Progress Report 🐴🗞️

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 04:04:00 +0000

We're sitting with a minigame prototype and a trailer with all but the last few tricky cutscenes in place. And after missing last month's Monster Taming Direct deadline, we'll be able to instead tailor this trailer more to the fans who've been waiting forever for the Mane Adventure to kick off!

You can get the full report and support further development over on our Patreon!

Happy BGP Launch Day Anniversary! 🎊🥳🎉

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:51:00 +0000

Thank you all so much. We really have come a long way since picking up the scraps of a corrupted and utterly destroyed Unity project back in 2020.

It's been a busy year and we haven't stopped working towards making the most incredible pony themed RPG the world has ever seen!

The game is really starting to look and feel like a full-scale RPG production now and we're excited to show it off as soon as we can.

Check out the full post on Patreon for a preview of what's to come in BGP Act 1!

⭐️Summer 2025 Progress Report⭐️ (New Animations Galore!)

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 19:14:00 +0000

Most of the Summer has been spent animating the expanded roster and dealing with distracting sidequests.

Take a look to see how the new ponies move!

On Our Patreon Report!

Progress Report: Start of Q2 2025 🕰️(Lookin' Pretty! ✨)

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 18:14:00 +0000

Artwork is nearly complete, overworld is populated and explorable, things are looking good, but not "release by End of June" good.

Take a look at this month's #BattleGemPonies DevLog!

Progress Report March 2025: Act 1 Incoming🎬

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:46:00 +0000

A New Progress Report has Appeared!

Q1 is already almost officially OVER!! And sadly, there's still no Act 1 Alpha demo yet...

However, big important tasks have been done like putting NPCs on every map with movement behaviors, battle teams, and placeholder dialogue. It's starting to look and feel like a real Adventure Mode now, but it's not really "a thing" until there's cutscenes tying it all together, ya know? And that'll take at least another month.

Progress Report January 2025: This is OUR Year! 🗣️🔥 (for real this time)

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 18:10:00 +0000

We're excited to say we've finally reached the year that BGP (and possibly it's DX Edition) will both finally be fully released! Complete with all 3 story Acts and everything!

And knowing that the newly announced Switch 2 is backwards compatible takes a lot of worries about porting difficulty away. We can't WAIT to get BGP DX running on that thing!

Take a look on Patreon (even as a Free Member) at how the game is coming along so far and how we intend on delivering the first Act by the end of Spring 2025. 🌸

First Patreon Progress Report of 2025

End of 2024 Progress Report (Winter Wrap Up🎄🥂)

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 05:43:00 +0000

A new development update is here! Last one of the year.

Lots to celebrate as the year of BGP's launch comes to a close. But there's so much content yet to come that we feel like things have only just started!

Head on over to Patreon to get the details on progress as of December 2024, plans for 2025, and screenshots of the lovely places you'll get to explore in Act 1 a few months from now.

Battle Gem Ponies | Month One Patch 🩹🕹️⚙️

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:53:00 +0000

Another big bug fixing patch for Battle Gem Ponies has arrived!
And you can still find the game and all its social media channels on the YotesMark Linktree!

This one finally addresses the biggest issue with the mobile build noted in many reviews. Those darn touch controls! You can now reposition, resize, and adjust the sensitivity of the virtual joystick to make overworld movement more comfortable. 📱

New BGP Music Channel on YouTube! 🎵

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 02:52:00 +0000

Starting today, you can listen to the Battle Gem Ponies soundtrack as often as you like on YouTube! 🎶

Check out the brand new YotesMusic channel and Subscribe for more surprise music drops on your Home page ~ 🎵

https://www.youtube.com/@YotesMusic

Battle Gem Ponies | Week One 🥳📅

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 23:24:00 +0000

It's been a week since launch and a new Week One Patch [1.0.3] is set to soon go live everywhere! (As of this post it's up on Windows already!)

And as for how sales are going? Amazing. Our best release yet, beating both of Unicorn Training's launches (2014 & 2024) by a mile. We've closed out Day 7 with 1000+ copies of BGP being played by folks out there! (And still ticking upwards by the hour ⬆️👀)

That's just over a thousand people across Mobile App Stores and PC's Itch.io after being in the Top 50 charts across the board for a few consecutive days.

More details on this whirlwind of a week below.

🗣️📢 Battle Gem Ponies is Now Available on Google Play!! 🤩📲 | (Sorry for the Delay!)

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Android users, rejoice! The holdup has ended and Battle Gem Ponies is yours to download.

📲 Go and get BGP on the Google Play Store!! 🎮

And be sure to leave your thoughts in the reviews after playing! (We get to see your feedback and the game gets boosted in the store when you do.)

Battle Gem Ponies | Day One 🩹😀📈🎊

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:00:00 +0000

If you haven't heard, Battle Gem Ponies finally came out yesterday!
And you can find every link ever for it on the BGP Linktree!

Players quickly let us know about some brutal bugs that snuck their way into release. But now we've SQUASHED the biggest ones and still have the rest already on our radar.

Get details on how launch is going below.

Launch Day! 🎊 Battle Gem Ponies has been Released!! 🎉🦄

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

It's finally out, guys. You can download the long awaited Battle Gem Ponies on Windows, iOS, Android, Mac, Linux, and even Amazon Tablets!

You can check out the Launch Trailer on YouTube (it premiered in the 2024 Monster Taming Direct this morning) if you wanna hype yourself up even more!

Every backer has been sent the download keys ordered since the Kickstarter began 3 years ago. (And if ANY of you are having trouble redeeming them, reach out to Tony Yotes!)

I won't bog things down with paragraphs today, just get to playing! And leave your thoughts in comments and reviews, we want to read every single one!

BGP at EFNW 2024 🌲 (+ Official CONFIRMED Release Date 🌟)

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Big thanks to everyone who came by our booth this year. Feels great to share the release date of the project you guys made happen.

On September 2nd you guys will be able to download Battle Gem Ponies right off the App Store, Google Play, Itch, and even Amazon Apps. 📦

Pre-Orders for Google Play and iOS are live!

Sign up to be there on Day One!

And we had a blast sharing our new BGP trading game with Everfree Northwest! 🌲
Every con gets more magical. 🌟 (So we really can't wait for the next!)

The Arrival Story's Beta 5 Update 📲 (and Marketing/Release Plans ⭐)

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 03:29:00 +0000

Check out Patreon for Beta Update #5!

We've got big plans for marketing efforts and look forward to announcing a definitive release date soon.

Game's just about done cookin' but we can't just push it out without rolling out the red carpet first. Get more details on the Patreon community post or hit us up on the BGP Discord with any and all burning questions!

Fresh-Baked Beta 3 Update! 🍪📲

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Sun, 21 Jul 2024 18:51:00 +0000

Check out Itch for Backer Beta Update #3!

Approaching the final few issues between this demo and launch day...
Play the Early Access Beta!

Beta 2 Update Has Arrived! (Plus, New Merch!)📲

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 18:48:00 +0000

#BattleGemPonies Sunday Beta Update, as promised! 🎮 (And some new goodies too! 🛍️)

Read for free on our Patreon!

Battle Gem Ponies Beta 1 Has Arrived! 🚅🚉

noreply@blogger.com (YotesMark, Ltd.) — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 03:24:00 +0000

The Battle Gem Ponies Beta is here!! 🤩🎆

And you can play it on Itch.io right now! (Password for access is on the locked Patreon post if you're a $10+ donor and wanna claim your key.)

Or just take a gander at the update highlights below.