> Website Updated

http://www.mane6.com/2011/11/this-might-be-post-about-guihuds.html

... And Anu hasn't been heard of ever since.

And I was just about to post in the old thread to comment on the website update when out of nowhere Thread X. Well played.

It's nice to see another update. As much as I love video updates, reading about behind-the-scenes things is just as fine and dandy. It's wonderful to see how the project has developed and to hear the reasoning and thought process behind game elements ranging from art direction to HUD design and gameplay. You guys just put so much detail into every aspect of the game design. If I didn't know better I'd suspect you guys were professional game designers.

>>28714
Are you guys going to be posting vids from Bronycon?
For those of us not in NYC?

>>28714

I have one question (which may have already been answered): Is there advancing guard (aka push-blocking) or teching in this game?

Still no Fluttershy... but hell, dem 6 segments and slow filling magic meters! I think Applejack is gonna have the two segments, Rainbow dash the six segments and Rarity obviously gets the slow fillup one. Twilight's got the three. Now for Fluttershy and Pinkie, I think Fluttershy gets a slow filling and pinkie the 4 segments.

>>28734
There was teching in the stream footage and the Twilight reveal trailer. Did you even watch those?

My question is, will there be Guard Crush in this?

>>28738
Don't forget there are still 12 other characters coming after the game's initial release.

>>28722
Oh you...

>>28746
I did, but I guess I didn't notice it.

>>28718

We're trying to set up something, but we're still a bit sketchy on the details; Can't make any promises yet.

>>28746
11. 6+11= 17. 2+2= Fish.

>>28753
Don't worry. If you don't, somepony else surely will.

>>28753

>>28714
I love the amount of effort being put into this, it's already come a long way, you guys are doing an amazing job.

The current version of the HUD is absolutely fantastic. Two things I think it could do with are experimenting with hexagonal win icons, for a purely aesthetic purpose, and a super bar that fills up with different colours, to make it easier to see how much it's charged at a glance.

I look forward to seeing the next update. :3

I wake up to ponies only to wake to more ponies when I checked my email. ImOkayWithThis.jpg

Great update, I was about to ask if you were gonna have assign the magic indicator color to each pony's element, but you answered that question IN BOLD. :B

I like seeing a "behind the scenes" thing.

>>28769

Been there, done that; actually tried something a bit more complex at first, then hexas, and ended up in circles; They look better at the 640*480px game resolution.

Not shown in the article are the two dozen sketches and detail changes I went to between versions; Didn't want to overwhelm people with almost identical images on what it might seem already like an overly long article.

The multi-colored bar is something already on the works. As mentioned in the article, make it work before making it pretty.

>>28771
Well alright then, I guess it helps to not overwhelm the screen with too many hexagons too. Just something I was curious about.

Keep up the fantastic job. I'll go back to lurking around. :V

I lol'd at this

MLP: Fighting is Magic - Thread X DevTeam!.devteamGc Fri, Nov 25, 2011 11:55 PM No. 28713
>MLP: Fighting is Magic - Thread IX

Ctrl+c ctrl+v ftw.

(I only noticed it when I was bookmarking this thread and thought I was bookmarking thread IX).

>>28808
D'oh

Loved the update. It's always so interesting to see step by step and behind the scenes things like this. The GUI looks awesome, and even if it's subject to change i'm sure it'll be great when the game is released. Thanks for the update guys, keep up the great work!

Thanks for the write up, Anu. Its cool that you went ahead and did that.

Also KoFXIII is out! Did anypony else get it?

And Lunar Republic forever.

Oh, look! That moment finally reached!

That was a unespected, yet very interesting, update! The GUI looks smooth and clean, it will help to remain the combats as the center of attention. But I didn't get the thing about Magic: They will charge as you fight, charge with an attack, passive?

This is me, missing the new thread like a moron.

I thought the game ended because Elosande left.

>>28888
and because no updates

>>28888
Didn't they say in the very thing saying that he left that work on the game would continue?

>>28890
I must've missed that.

GUI/HUD post and no "Art of the GUI/HUD" joke? For shame Anu...for shame...

>>28894

Fun fact. I don't really consider m'self an artist =P. I've had the chance of personally knowing m'share of artists, (in which I count some of the devs, particularly Nappy and our former BG artist Elo), and realized I don't really count myself as an artist.

My work leans more to the technical side, with a bit of artistical-ness than the inverse.

Then again, somepony also said once that "Graphic design is for artists that Can't draw" (to save their lives). Probably true.

So while I wanted to make the AotD connection when I thought about doing the article first, a few threads ago, I didn't really feel it.

I also didn't remember to when I was writing it =P.

Chello! Excellent job all. Explosives.

How's things coming along? I'm seriously just wasting time right now. Hit me! I need to do work!

>>28897
I would, but that spot's reserved for Anu. He's a confirmed slacker.

>>28900
Crap so I can't get any? Heresy!

>>28900
Oi. I'm not a slacker. I'm a procastinator. =P

... and I work better with deadlines over my head.

>>28906
What's that behind you?! Ghost Nappa?!

So far we have heard music from only one of the composers: Rbc88. And they have been some of the best and highest production value music this community has produced.

So, with the other composer DH, will we see equal production? Not to get into the subjective aspects, just sound quality / use of live instruments. The most notable thing (imo) we have seen publicly is his Twilight theme (incidentally remixed by Rbc88).

--

Assuming each character will have an original theme, what other music will be in the game - menu, credits, variations for final rounds or special events?

From what I've seen of this game it looks awesome! And I really like the Twilight theme for it. I have to ask though, what kind of release date are yall trying to shoot for?

>>28922
I got the impression that RainbowCrash88 isn't that good at composing. Nothing on his youtube channel is an original composition. He just has a strong understanding of how to produce solid videogame music remixes. DJ Derpy Hooves on the other hand, has a large amount of original composition.

I had assumed from the beginning that DJ Derpy Hooves would be composing songs, in full instrumental electronica or whatever he wanted to use. And that RainbowCrash88 would take the song, and clean it down into a simpler more unified less instrumental song for a old-school videogame.

When Twilight's Sonata was rewritten to be used as Twilight Sparkle's Stage Theme in the last character trailer, I was pleasant to see that it appeared that my theory about the two musician's roles were confirmed.

>>28939

I'm certain that 0.00-0.50 of Twilight and 0.25-1.04/1.19-end of Applejack are original and by Rbc88. If not can you identify where you think they come from?

And (personal opinion only) those sections were better than the parts that remixed Ingram or DH.

>>28922

We let RC and DH pick what themes they'd like to give a go to and which ones they'd like to collaborate in; So far, What we've heard from both of them is incredible. Due to the order in which updates have been released, there's been two tracks by RC; The next one coming will probably be DH's.

>>28948

Thanks.

I'm going to give you credit Solar.

We're ten threads into this. And I thought every single possible question had been asked. For the past 8-9 threads, I've repeatedly answered questions which had already been answered in the FAQ, or were obviously unanswerable.

And you asked a new question.

I don't use this picture very lightly. Congratulations, you earned it.

>>28950

What >>28955 said.

>Website updated

http://www.mane6.com/2011/11/new-post.html

>>28972
Awesome. Finally we get some Fluttershy.

>>28972
I'm trying not to have an early choice for my main but... Must have animal assists!

>>28972
Be afraid.

>>28972
I assume the blacked out ones are her level 3s. I'm calling it now. :B

>>28972

>>28972
Heh, didn't notice the porcupine and skunk being blacked out at the time.

I know you guys must get variations of this question all the time, so I'm going to specify a little.

From what I can tell, you've been very vague about release dates. However, it seems like you want to release it sometime between March and July 2012. Is this accurate at all, or am I reading more into it than that? Also, will you release it in Alpha and update it semi-regularly a la Minecraft, or do you plan on finishing the whole thing before you release it?

>>28977

Oh hell yes.

Please tell me the Manticore assist has her pull the thorn out of its paw. :)

>>28972
It's... so... beautiful!

>>28972

HOLY CRAP!

I knoew she would fight with annimals, but those?! She will be kinda nice to play!

And we know something about all characters, so it is kinda close to finish, yeah?

>>28972
Well now...
That is pretty cool.
I'm expecting great things from this one...

Mic check- new comp, so no settings.

Let's face it, we all knew Fluttershy wouldn't be doing as much hooves on fighting as the rest and that she would be a beast master.

But that doesn't make this any less awesome.

Assuming Angel will accompany her for the entire time, the bird and otter will be level 1s with the bird being a projectile and the otter close range attack. The skunk and porcupine will be area of effect with a cloud of stink and a long range hail of spines respectively. Then the bear and Manticore will be the awesome level 3s that just beat the shit out of everything ever.

>>29012

For the sake of speculation...

They could be her regular attacks. So Angel and the ferret would be her light attacks, the skunk and porcupine are her medium attacks, and the Manticore and bear are her heavy attacks.

I noticed a few comments on the image on the main page thinking Fluttershy will only attack with animals. I could be wrong but despite being an assist character, I think Fluttershy will have a few moves that will have her hit the opponent. She'll just have light hits she's too scared to do (closing her eyes or hiding her face when trying to hit for example). Somewhat how Dizzy works in Guilty Gear. Dizzy holds back her hits.

That's how I originally pictured her fighting anyway.

>>28986
...but...what would that even do...I mean, offensively...

>>29016
I don't think they are her regular attacks, but I bet they are her special attacks.

Or rather, Angel is a heavy part of her regular attacks (but not all) and the rest of the animals, in the groups you said, are her light medium and heavy specials.

Not her supers.

Will Fluttershy's animals have different colour skins like the ponies?

>>29026
Most likely. Two Fluttershies with same colored animals wouldn't be right now would it?

>>28972

What are you going to do for 1,000,000 page views? :3
your getting close~

>>29017
Another possibility is that she'll work like Rachel in BlazBlue, where the animals do all the attacks and take all the hits and Fluttershy just chips in for a few specials.

>>29040
that would be a relief
I could never hit fluttershy! XD

Rachel does not loose. She simply get's tired of fighting.

>>28897

When I first saw the image, my first thought was Zappa. I thought it would be neat f her animal partner cycles, and it colors her attacks, or makes them attack for her.

> Website Updated

Is it a double update, or is it two parts of a single one?

http://www.mane6.com/2011/11/introductions.html

> Website Updated

http://www.mane6.com/2011/11/here-comes-new-challenger.html

>>29066
I love you guys.
And hello, new guy!

>>29066
Awesome! I was just playing that the other day. Nice to see the guy on the team. Game's got a lot of potential.

>>29066
Angel=Bada** Adorable.

>>29066

This is so glorious...

>>29066
Thank you guys, you have no idea how happy this update made me.

>>29066
Do you guys practice being vague?; Every question you answer brings me 10 more!

>>29095

>>29097

;)

> Important

Just a heads up.

We've been notified that a couple of twitter/facebook accounts posing as us have been offering "Beta" keys. We'd like to remark that they are NOT affiliated to us in any way, shape or form.

There is not a beta of Fighting is Magic running at the moment, and even if it were, we wouldn't be charging people to get in.

Mane6 doesn't have a twitter, facebook or other social media account; Some of our developers might possess personal accounts, but official info comes only from the website or our ponychan threads, posted by verified devteam members.

As a rule of thumb, if you see any information not confirmed or listed in our website (www.mane6.com) or posted in the threads by the verified DevTeam names, disregard it as rumors, unfounded claims, or in this case, as an attempt of scamming people.

We cannot be held responsible for the actions and behaviour of any of those accounts; As we've mentioned before, and we reiterate right now, The website is our central hub; All important info, including beta testing, when and if it happens, will be addressed through there.

Thanks for your suppport

Sort of sad this will be a Season 1 game only. So many new and cool things are being put into Season 2 already that would work great for this game. Not to mention what Season's 3-whatever would.

If this game went well, would you guys ever think about doing another one, say, at the end of the series when everything is out there? Would you even want to wait that long to do another game like this? Or is this going to be it?

>>29102

We don't have definite plans after Fighting is Magic reaches the full 17 characters Roster. We'd like to see this game through before thinking of any future possibilities.

As for the reason we are mainly S1 content, is to avoid feature creep. The full roster and their movesets have been planned since the start of the project, and been in development since. Re-doing months of work to add a small detail or tidbit every other week a new episode airs isn't a good practice when you want to release a game.

Hey! 1,000,000 pageviews on the mane site!

>>29098

Can you put a prominent link to the current ponychan thread on the right side nav of mane6.com? I was trying to find the current thread and kept getting directed to older threads and had a hard time finding this one.

So, my question was completely overlooked.
>>28746

Will there be Guard Crush in this?

>>29136
This. The fans must know!

>>29132

Each thread redirects to the new one at the end of its lifespan. You can also check the /collab/ main page. The new thread is usually on the first three in the first page.

You guys sure know how to tease. Jesus.

I am eagerly anticipating Fighting is Magic. The moment this releases I go online with it and show the world why Rainbow Dash is best pony.

Yellow! Checkin' in on everypony. How goes it?

Better be some cool awesome stuff man... I'm busy currently working on my MLP persuasion speech for my final in Speech class.

>>29182

Oh, come on, man! She looks like a rushdown character. Rarity and Fluttershy wrecks the shit out of her, and even Twilight can handle her well with projectile spam.

That is sad becasuse I kinda enjoy playing with that type of character, but OK.

>>29187
I demand a video, so we can hear your amazing, earth-shattering voice.

>>29187
Better have it recorded and put on EqD's Nightly. :P

>>29188
I actually see Rainbow Dash vs. Twilight as strongly in RD's favor, easily 7-3. From the Twilight video it looks like her specials are all ground-based and she has no anti-air, and I imagine Dash can just disrespect her traps and fireballs with high-priority air-to-ground attacks. As for Rarity, yeah, it'll probably take some good reads as I imagine most of Rarity's attacks are plus on block, and Pinkie Pie, forget about it, she has that anti-air launcher with (presumably) a hitbox the size of Texas.

>>28856
I plan to. It'll be my first KoF game. Are you on Xbox?

I'd really like to know if there will be Fyreflye and Surprise palettes for Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie, as well as Discorded palettes for everypony. Awesome read whoever it was who made Discorded Twilight before Season 2 was announced.

>>29182
Sorry, but type-wise, Pinkie and AJ would at least have a chance of winning against her. RD's most likely (assuming) going to have less than average defense, leaving her open to massive damage against strong attacks, in which Pinkie and Applejack would have in spades.

How elaborate is combo system gonna be? are you gonna include fixed combos with a list or are we going to have to make up our own combos like in mugen.

>>29198
From watching the footage, I did notice Twilight had a horn thrust attack that hits upper front (the hitbox didn't seem too long, though). Besides that, she has her traps, which, depending on where RD would land from a quick air rushdown, would break her combo. I don't know if the cooldown would be fast enough that she could set a trap and backdash out of an air-to-ground attack, but that would also be a viable option to shut down Dash.

This is, of course, all speculative on Rainbow having fast air-to-ground attacks which, let's be honest, we can predict with 99% certainty.

Watch her combo at ~1:52 in the gameplay footage for her horn attack. You can see a good demonstration of its direction and air hit capabilities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uYnBcwd4Os&t=1m52s

Oh god I can't wait to actually start playing this game.

FLUTTERSHY IS TOP TIER! I'M CALLING IT NOW!

> Website Update

Help wanted: Pinkie Pie's VA

http://www.mane6.com/2011/12/help-wanted-voice-actress-pinkie-pie.html

you guys are too slow

>>29239

>>29239
Do not rush them. Good things come to those who wait.

Are you guys planning for Grappler character? because i can't picture anypony pulling off 720 piledrivers or even a supplex.

>>29256
Objection. Big Mac, Gilda, and Chief Thunderhooves

>>29261
I thought the posibility of Big Mac and Chief Thunderhooves being grapplers, but they can't grapple conventionally because hooves; something like the Juggernaut or Hulk moveset fits them better.

Gilda on the other hand looks like the perfect pick for a grappler.

>>29266
>Can't Grapple with hooves.
>Multiple occasions in the show where ponies were holding things with their hooves.

Nice try sir.

Oh it... is...on....

>>29278
Like Donkey Kong.

Please tell me that Pinkie Pie will be able to use her Party Cannon.

>>29278
>>29279

>>29280
I doubt it, since the game is season one only.

>>29278
ALL OF MY MONEY. TAKE IT.

BRB, selling one of my kidneys to be able to afford it.

>>29280

Feature Creep. It usually causes games to get postponed indefinitely. Keeping a strict restriction on what will be allowed in the game (IE Season 1 only), helps keep the game production moving at a reasonable pace, and helps them resist the urge to keep adding "one more thing" everytime a new episode comes out every week, leaving them eternally incapable of catching up..

>>29311
While it does suck balls that it's only S1 since S2 has brought a load of amazing things, it's easily for the best.

That's not to say they won't carry on after the 17 characters are added and do a 'Fighting is Magic: 2' with S2 and even S3 things.

>>29221
>Rainbow's countenance whereupon Twilight challenges her
The horn does look like it's her only anti-air option, but unless it dramatically shrinks her hurtbox like Dhalsim's knee, it'll take very precise timing to use it as an anti-air, probably 2-3 frames against RD dive-kick shenanigans, which is really rough for a reaction move. Even if it does shrink her hurtbox, an RD player with any concept of yomi will bait out the horn before diving.

You're right about the traps; Twilight is almost certainly going to have to use them defensively, but a single trap only covers one avenue which I doubt will be a problem for RD, plus some good pressure will prevent Twilight from building much magic meter.

No matter what scenario I picture, I see pretty much everything as being strongly in Rainbow Dash's favor for this match-up. I think it would take VERY strong fundamentals for Twilight to have a fighting chance: precisely placed traps, expertly timed fireballs, wise teleports, split-second yomi, and lots of patience. It'll take smart play from Dash too, she won't be able to just dive kick spam, but she should be able to out-zone T.Sparkle fairly easily.

I see this match-up as like Dhalsim vs. Rufus, except Dhalsim doesn't have his stretchy limbs and Rufus can fly. Clearly Twilight has options in this match-up, but Rainbow Dash has the mix-up on Twilight nearly all of the time - in order to get in a combo, Twilight will have to out-guess Rainbow Dash, not the other way around - and that makes this match-up strongly in Rainbow Dash's favor. Do you disagree?

>>29314
A magic attack where Rainbow Dash blazes across the ground, leaving a trail of rainbow flames? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utif-u3G2co&t=8m48s How about a Pinkie Pie counter-attack where she rubs chocolate cake in the offending pony's face? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peuwNeN81I8&t=20m18s

Now what we really need is another livestream.

>>29331
I'll be happy if they just do trailers.

>>29314
I don't know, I figured after they finish the game, just keep making updates for it. Fighting is Magic 2 would require them starting from scratch or more work. I rather them just add stuff after the game is done (and only after). I see it would be better to make an "Ultimate" or "Super" version rather than a sequel. That's just me though.

Whether this happens or not, I'll be happy either way with the one they are working on now. Season 1 was a great season after all.

>>29335

The way I was thinking was just keep the base that they're working on now and just changing movesets around. For example, Pinkie's cannon would probably need to remove another attack for balancing issues which in itself would alter the game enough to have two different versions and knowing the internet, two different camps (pro and anti-cannonpie).

Maybe not a whole new game with whole new mechanics, but just a new release so they can say "Right, that's FiM1 done and dusted. No more changes to that, instead if you wnat something different have this later season game with different movesets and new characters." Which is probably what you meant, so sorry if it wasn't clear at first.

If that made any sense then yay, I kind of got distracted by a new blanket half way through typing that. It was just soooo soft ;-;

See what you guys did to the site... I love it. Checkin' in while I get ready for my speech in a couple days. It'll be glorious. Though I doubt I'll record it seeing as I don't have the tools necessary...

>>29318
>A magic attack where Rainbow Dash blazes across the ground, leaving a trail of rainbow flames?
When this pony is going 88 miles an hour... you bet there'll be friendships... =P
I'm looking more forward to her tornado, lightning clouds, and rainboom. I hope they are all in, but it's hard to say for sure.

>Website: Small Update

Deadline announced for Pinkie Pie's VA castings

http://www.mane6.com/2011/12/help-wanted-voice-actress-pinkie-pie.html

>>29198
>>29221
>>29318

Heh. Gotta admit, I really enjoy seeing theory fighter being played. Warms my heart, seriously. I can't way to see more of it as characters gets shown off.

>>29468

I sent in my audition but I no idea if anypony received it since I didn't get a reply. Is there some way that I can find out for certain?

>>29495

Due to the big number of auditions we receive, it's really hard for us to reply to every one. Still, we receive most of the mails no problems.

The only cases where we've confirmed the mails don't get through are when people send attached files, due to our spam filters. It's also our policy not to open/read mails with attached files.

If you followed the instructions in the website, your e-mail should've arrived just fine.

>>29522

Oh, okay good. No attached files from me. And... I do not envy you guys with the prospect of picking a Pinkie. This will be a hard choice for you, I'm sure.

>>29536
Silly annons.
You will never be as pinkie as the PINK... IE PIE!!

Oh wow, just noticed you've already passed the one million page views mark. The site's nearly at 1.1kk now.

Belated congratulations on that I guess. Quite a feat if you ask me.

Is it me... or has it gotten quieter around here? =P
Everypony studying?
Cause I'm studying... for the first FIM Tournament, that is!

> Website Updated

Pinkie Pie VA Casting call - CLOSED}
http://www.mane6.com/2011/12/help-wanted-voice-actress-pinkie-pie.html

Pinkie Pie VA: Part 2 - The Judging
http://www.mane6.com/2011/12/pinkie-pie-va-part-2-judging.html

>>29643
Not much to talk about. I've been lurking.

>>29643
Well, for me it's Finals week. Sooo...yeah... That and the Brony Fighting Skype Group... Get in here dammit!

I have KOFXIII and BlazBlue, I'll post my gamer tag if anypony is interested

>>29490
Awww, shucks.

Anyway, that Anon totally ragequit. And I'm loving "theory fighter," so let's have another round: Pinkie Pie vs. Rarity.

From what we've seen of Pinkie Pie, she has an anti-air launcher with a huge hitbox and slow startup, an air attack where she inflates like a balloon which hits behind and below her and I'm guessing has high priority, a quick and powerful flank-slam (standing heavy?) and a rekka that is sort of slow to start up (about 8 frames) that looks like it's neutral on block. It looks like Pinkie is a mix-up character, with safe options for inflicting small amounts of damage.

We've seen two of Rarity's attacks, her standing two-hit medium and her launcher. I'm sure the extra hit helps her get a little bit more damage out of her magic series than the other ponies (except probably Applejack). But given the amazingly slow start-up of her launcher, it really doesn't look like she'll be able to chain it off of her magic series. We're also told by Leedin that she will have "a few of her most fan-popular moments." Assuming that the whining fit will be a super, I'm guessing her tail-whip from S1E2 will be her standing heavy, and it too will probably have high start-up but will almost surely chain from her standing medium. Who knows what the properties of her fashion-fabulous specials will be, but I'm guessing that Rarity's moves will mostly be high start-up, high damage, low combo potential and plus on block, which would make her a bait-and-punish type of character.

So, the way I see this match-up going is: Pinkie Pie pesters Rarity with safe pokes, and Rarity looks for whiffs that she can punish. Rarity uses her plus-on-block attacks to create frametraps, and Pinkie just has to be patient and block.

I'd say it's pretty even. Pinkie may be on the offensive more often, but she does less damage. This match-up will probably involve a lot of footsies and is one of the most likely match-ups to end in a timeout.

Does anypony have any different ideas about these ponies' fighting styles and how this match-up would go?

>>29684
I think Pinkie will be more of a tank. Slow moves, terrible sprint, but she'll hit like a truck when she gets through. Of course she'll also high health and tons of super armor.

>>29696
Let me propose a question.

Twilight is a trap character
Applejack is grounded rushdown
Fluttershy has a summons gimmick
Rainbow Dash we don't know, but will obviously be aerial based

That leaves us with Pinkie Pie and Rarity.

Will Rarity or Pinkie Pie be the mandatory "Jack of All Trades, Master of None?" character that every fighting game must have?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/JackOfAllStats

>>29684
>pic

>>29698
Pinkie Pie = Taokaka(Blazblue)
Rarity = Rose(Street Fighter)

>>29724
I've been maining Rose lately ... so I'm not really sure how I'd feel about that if it were true.

>>29698
Twilight = Trish from Marvel vs Capcom 3
Appejack = Spencer without the arm (but I'm sure some people figured that out, pic related)

>>29749
>Twilight = Trish from Marvel vs Capcom 3

Nope. Doesn't have a lock down trap like Trish's Scythe and Twi doesn't seem to be able to fire Air Hadoukens.

>>29753
So give or take a few moves. Instead of paper falling down, Trish has high and low traps. Air fireballs don't fit here. This game isn't combo heavy like MvC3.

>>29753
We're not making characters exactly the same, just judging what we think they most likely are similar to.

>>29776
We wouldn't want them to play exactly the same anyway. We want to be unique as possible so the game stands out. :B

Besides Trish has a sword, there's no place for weapons in MLP.

>>29801
We all know applejack is packing the deadliest weapons: Bucky McGillicuddy and Kicks McGee

>>29805
I hear that.

>>29805

And, in sort of weird way, Pinkie's party stuff and Rarity's patters are considered to be weapons. Not like guns, but improvisated(like frying pans!)

>>29807
And thus a Dead Rising crossover.

So, does Twilight have any anti-air move to use against Rainbow Dash?

>Website Updated

Pinkie Pie VA: Part 3 - The selection.

http://www.mane6.com/2011/12/pinkie-pie-va-part-3-selection.html

>>29829

not bad... not bad at all

>>29829

>>29829

Yay! She sounds awesome. I'm glad y'all found somepony so good. I'm not even the teensiest bit sad that I didn't get picked. :3

>>29829
Well now...
That is some awesome voice acting there.
Good for you, Emily!
...................................
So, will Pinkie's cannon launch a cannon ball so hard that it breaks through a cinder block wall, bounce of a rock pile, bounce off a sidewalk, break through somepony's front door, sail up a staircase, break out the other-side of the house, fly across a six lane freeway, bounce off the top of another house before brutally mauling a cart a la Mythbusters? =D

Ugh, that's the worst voice actor I've ever heard. Clearly the devs do not put amazing amount of efforts into this game. Fighting is Magic will obviously be horrible, and I totally will not be playing it when it comes out.

>>29842
No.

How much dialog is there actually going to be in this game? O_o

Is it just going to be little phrases like "Take that!" or are they going to be talking to eachother some between fights?

>>29844
Aww... =P

>>29842
There's a little detail you missed there... It smashes through a kitchen sink after it sails up the stairs.

>>29855
Why is the kitchen located on the second floor of the house? Seems like odd interior design.

I would <3 this so much if Pinkie uttered the words "STAAAAGE DIIIIVE!!!" when performing an aerial attack.

>>29698

Rarity could probably be the token high-health "counter" / "block and punish" type of character. I could also see her as having a "hyper-armor" super (Gala Dress Rarity?)

Pinkie Pie is looking to be the all-rounder of the game. She has an amazing AA (confetti launcher has mad hitbox), good close-range with nice pokes, good crossup options (inflatable baloon thing stated earlier looking pretty safe) and being Pinkie, I think it'll be safe to assume that she'll have a projectile of sorts.

Having said that, I think Pinkie is poised to wreck RBD (with her best moves probably being air-to-ground attacks).

>>29870
Our kitchen is on the second floor and at the top of a staircase, too. (But the second floor of my house is technically the ground floor, though) =P

>>29870
See
>>29930
Going upstairs doesn't always mean you're going to the second floor...

>>29890
After thinking about it a bit more, I don't really think that the RD vs Pinkie match-up is really that much in Pinkie's favor. Take a look at the startup (the time it takes before the move actually hits) of her anti-air launcher - it's VERY long, and the recovery (the time it takes after the move hits or misses for the character to be able to do another move or block) on it is also very slow. Its hitbox (the area that it actually hits) is probably huge, so if RD is anywhere in the air when it goes off, she'll get hit. But the trouble is that it has to be done at just the right time, or else Pinkie Pie will either A.) get hit before the explosion or B.) get hit after it misses because RD wasn't in the air above Pinkie when it goes off.

While the cannon looks like a great tool for controlling space, throwing it out willy-nilly will get Pinkie Pie into a lot of trouble. Rainbow Dash will have ground-based normal attacks just like everypony else and she'll probably be pretty quick, able to capitalize on the whiffed (missed) cannon from a considerable distance.

So, Pinkie Pie *thinks* Rainbow is going to jump, and throws out a pre-emptive cannon to catch her, but she doesn't jump - Rainbow gets a free combo. Rainbow jumps teasingly just barely into the space where Pinkie can get her with the cannon, Pinkie fires the cannon, and Dash air dashes backward (assuming she can air dash). Rainbow gets a free air-to-ground attack.

Once Rainbow Dash has Pinkie scared to use the cannon, she starts to jump in with attacks that could be easily destroyed by the cannon, but Pinkie doesn't use the cannon because it has been getting her into trouble. Rainbow gets a couple attacks in or maybe just some chip damage.

So Pinkie goes back to using the cannon, but Rainbow anticipates this and goes back to baiting it (trying to get her to use it when it will miss). Rainbow Dash gets another combo and wins the round.

So this doesn't seem like such an uneven match-up to me. If the Rainbow goes in with HURR I'M RAINBOW I'MA JUMP AT U and Pinkie goes in with HURR I'M PINKIE I'M FIRIN' MAH CANNON then yeah, Pinkie will win every time. Other than that, it will take smart play from both players.

>>29934

of course in the end mind games / player skill will (hopefully if balanced enough) be the deciding factor.

Pinkie could easily use mind games throwing out her projectiles (please be pink pies), which one could assume that dash would have no counter to forcing her to come closer, and with her fearing t3h cannonz, tries to play it safe, and wait for an opening I think pinkie has an edge when it comes to ground normals. Her 2A (hoof swipe), and 2B(or C? the low buck move) look pretty fast and safe. Due to this RBD will have to hold back, create some space which leads her to be pelted by moar "Pinkie Pies," and come in from the ground (where she'll have the advantage), try to punish Pinkie's relatively safe ground normals, or to risk going in for a high priority dive attack, where she can get cannoned.

Overall I see it as a sort of Jin-ish, eh maybe?, not really? (Pinkie Pie) vs Taokaka (RBD) matchup.

But I digress, theoryfighting a character that got less than 10 seconds of shown gameplay, to

>>29934

of course in the end mind games / player skill will (hopefully if balanced enough) be the deciding factor.

Pinkie could easily use mind games throwing out her projectiles (please be pink pies), which one could assume that dash would have no counter to forcing her to come closer, and with her fearing t3h cannonz, tries to play it safe, and wait for an opening I think pinkie has an edge when it comes to ground normals. Her 2A (hoof swipe), and 2B(or C? the low buck move) look pretty fast and safe. Due to this RBD will have to hold back, create some space which leads her to be pelted by moar "Pinkie Pies," and come in from the ground (where she'll have the advantage), try to punish Pinkie's relatively safe ground normals, or to risk going in for a high priority dive attack, where she can get cannoned.

Overall I see it as a sort of Jin-ish, eh maybe?, not really? (Pinkie Pie) vs Taokaka (RBD) matchup.

But I digress, theoryfighting a character that got less than 10 seconds of shown gameplay, to a character that got 0 seconds of gameplay is kinda well...hard.

There's a thread on /pony/ talking about this game. Just thought you'd guys like to know.

>>29980

yeah, but this is the main thread where the developers post in.

>>29982
Indeed it is. I was only pointing out that there's a thread there.

Could you explain the damage scaling? Twi looks like an amazing juggler/aerial rave so i was wondering what the damage scaling would be like

>>29996
Damage scaling doesn't appear to be in the game yet. Also of note, that was Twilight's trailer, so of course she's going to be shown dominating. When Pinkie Pie gets a trailer, all the clips will be of her dominating as well (I'm pretty sure Pinkie Pie is next)

>>29997
And then will be Crashie, then Rarity, saving the best for last, yes?

>>30012
How dare you forget Fluttershy?

>>30013
I didn't.

>>30021
O.k., then.
As you were, soldier.

>>30040
Roger, roger.

>>29979
The only thing about either of these characters that we can say conclusively is that Pinkie Pie's cannon is very, VERY unsafe. It also doesn't look like it hits very far in front so with proper zoning Dash might be able to get a safe dive kick.

In other news, my tablet should be arriving in the mail either tomorrow or the day after, and I'm thinking of making a humorous ask-pony tumblr inspired by and loosely (keyword) based on Fighting is Magic. What do you guys think?

>>30050
>>I'm thinking of making a humorous ask-pony tumblr inspired by and loosely (keyword) based on Fighting is Magic. What do you guys think?

I'm game. Pun intended.

>>30050
Do it filly! But if you're going to do it, do it good.

>>30050
Well, Tumblr's are pretty popular right now...
But I must admit that I don't look at many of them. Mainly because of two unrelated reasons:
1. "Dude, that's creepy."
2. "Is this really necessary?"
=P

... I blame insomnia.

Idea thought up between Cam (TSB), Sunset, and myself late at night. I believe we were discussing RD's playstyle.

So yeah.

Just an FYI, Skype's been down for me. I thought it was just Skype servers, but for some reason I don't seem to be able to log in. Miss ya'll.

There's probably some way to fix it, I just have to figure it out.

>>30221
That explains it. I was wondering as to your absence.

>>30234
I didn't realize it was was localized until it was down for like two days in a row.

Strange thing is, I'm signed in. It just shows every single person except me offline. I'll figure it out later.

FYI, a little bonus to nightmare fuel up today's episode:

Spoilers obviously, but some people in Skype might find it interesting.

http://www.ponychan.net/chan/pony/res/36091023.html

>Website Updated - Minor Update

Twitter: We can now has it.

http://www.mane6.com/2011/12/twitter-we-can-has-it.html

(See this from Twitter)

Ok, I had to cut it down, due to the strict character limit.
Say you have character X. For the sake of convenience, character X is the 17th character- who I'm assuming no actual work has been done on.
In season one, character X got some characterization- but not much. Since then, there's ben a bunch more, that could give you a very different feel of the character.

What I'm asking is, from the moment you begin drawing up conceptual moves, are you going to limit yourself to everything up to that point, and nothing that ay come past that, or are you going to still limit yourself to knowledge of them as of Season 1?

>>30322
They said this is a season 1 only project so that they have a definitive time frame to work from. If they took into consideration S2+ then they would keep adding things that pop up and there would be no end point in sight.

That said, as far as I'm aware that's just their stance for the current work (mane 6 stuff, maybe first extra character, idk, I'm not working with them). But as they said that for their current work I think it's safe to assume it will hold true for all of it.

>>30322

The Devil is in the details. We can't give you an specific answer, since that'd be spoiling the roster, but it really depends. We're mainly S1, and we're trying to stick to canon as closely as possible.

There are some ideas that we've noticed and liked from S2, but we're not using.

People'll be wondering the reason. Mainly, it is to avoid feature creep. Delaying the game to include something new every time something strikes our fancy isn't a good policy, specially if we've already something planned that we can work with from S1. Reworking or rebalancing the entire moveset to include a S2 reference we can do without is something we'd like to stay away from.

That said, minor stuff might still leak a bit into the game, if it helps us stick closer to canon and doesn't disrupt the flow of development.

Fluttershy's bear companion, for example, had been in the moveset list for fluttershy far before S2 started to air, but hadn't been sprited for use in engine at the moment Lesson Zero (S2E3) debuted; Since the episode provided us with a "canon" bear design, we decided to go with it.

TL;DR: Minor details might get in, but no big stuff.

>>30309
Twitter? Why? I didn't realize that actual internet users used that site. I thought that was like Facebook and Myspace, for all those pop culture people that think they are computer folks.

That being said, I love The Hellawhack Shiznit That Happens Inside Your Brizzle Button, and I thank Anu thoroughly for his contributions to the game.

incoming worst idea ever here

I was listening to One Winged Angel (Sephiroths theme tune from FF7) And was scrolling past this thread. And thought that changing the word Sephiroth to Celestia .. ha, no i kid (actually it would be awesome as a final boss theme if she was the final boss but lol. no)

So i only skimmed because im lazy, but does this mean no Discord ?
Also, its looking fantastic every update, its a pity ill never have the means to play the damn thing not having a pc/laptop and all, but ill be watching the vids, keep up the godly work

>>30423
I use Twitter, but I also use Facebook as well (and Tumblr), but no one uses Myspace anymore.

>>30309
You'll update your Twitter with webpage updates too, right?

>>30423
Why Twitter?

- It reduces the number of people asking the same question in our mail inbox
- People are more given to read a small tweet than look in the FAQ for the answer, apparently
- People use it. It's easier to spread news through it; It's actually remained a consistent source of pageviews to our site even before we got the acct, due to the retweet function
- It's not as social-media driven as Facebook.
- We can post links to site updates (that also answers >>30434

Hey, does anypony know where/how to get in contact with the Lunaport developer? If so, it'd be REALLY great if somepony could help us out with reaching them.

>>30429
Amazing!

CELESTIA!

Okay, I made some other threads about this, but this seems as good a place as any to post this.

I'm working on a Mane6-inspired fightstick right now, and could use some help. I've got an idea for the stick, and know all the parts I'm using to put it together, but I need some help with the artwork.

I've got some artwork I threw together made, but I'm not exactly thrilled with my work. I'm not much of an artist.

So if anypony out there has any suggestions, can offer help, or hell, even make some artwork for it themselves I'd be very grateful. I'd even be willing to offer some compensation for art that's of decent quality.

Here's a floor-plan I've got so far.

The box itself will be from Art's Hobbies, and the buttons will be lit up with LCD lights that have transparencies of the mane 6's cutie marks, as seen in the picture.

Thanks in advance for any help!

>>30534
Huh... most sticks these days are 8 buttons.

>>30550
But most games only use 4, 5, or 6 anyways. I can't even think of a game that legitimately uses 8 besides remapping an input to multiple button presses, such as the 3P and 3K buttons.

Blurry pic somewhat related. I'm not going to waste money on buttons that I only sometimes use to navigate menus. So, the last two white buttons are stock Mad Catz, while everything else in the stick has been replaced with Sanwa parts.

>>30557

Yep, that and the fact that there are 6 mane cast ponies is why I went with 6 buttons. Somepony in another thread tried to argue that it should only have 4 buttons, since MLP:Fighting is Magic will be a 4-button fighter, but why would anypony want a stick with only 4 buttons? There's NO versatility!

And might I say that's a nice looking stick! Very simple, in a good way! Too much just looks cluttered.

>>30557
>>30558
True, but do you have a 6 button stick? If you have an 8, then are you gonna just leave the buttons blank? (heh, blank flanks)

I vote for Luna and Celestia's cutie marks on 7th and 8th

>the buttons will be lit up with LCD lights that have transparencies of the mane 6's cutie marks, as seen in the picture.

Mother of Celestia that sounds amazing...

>>30575

Sweet Moly Brown... THAT IS GENIOUS!

Anyway, the hype on this game comes higher as the January 7th's stream comes closer.

They're having a January 7th stream? They're gonna stream during BroNYcon?

Funny, my birthday is a day before that.

>>30579
>>30580

Woah there. Where did confirmed information we're making a stream come from?

We're trying to get some recordings of Mane6 presentation at BroNYCon, but we're quite sure we never promised a stream.

>>30586
Indeed we did NOT.

Check your facts- if it didn't come from one of the approved sources (Us in this thread, Twitter, our website) don't consider it the truth.

>>30586

Sorry, I deducted it.


well, at least we will see the characters in action, right?

>>30586
I figured, that's why I asked.

:)

>Website Updated - Minor Update

http://www.mane6.com/2011/12/happy-holidays.html

>>30660
hope there a demo in there lol just kidding
happy holiday to you and the crew too

>>30660
And you, DevTeam.
Happy Decemberween.

>>30660

Narift. Typo'd on that. :c - I'd redo it, but photoshop crashed right after saving, and I need to be up in... five hours.

>>30558

Fairly certain that was me lol
KoF, VF and Tekken, technically BlazGreen, but that layout isn't conducive to a traditional box layout.
Though you could go Neo Geo 4 button and get KoF, Blaz and VF, as well as FiM.

That being said, then, very much like now, I'm being snarky for the sake of being snarky.

For serious though, you're building a custom stick, by the virtue of you knowing Arts exists, this probably won't be your only stick, I'm still more or less playing devil's advocate here, but why not go nuts?

Entirely unrelated: January 7th needs to hurry up and get here already.

I was making up win quotes so here they are

RD General
"You've just been dashed... *groan*"
"I win again with flying colours"
"You missed it? Must have blinked."
"And that's RainbowCRASH!"

RD rivals
"I guess I /light/ your /fire/... wait a sec that came out wrong" Versus Spitfire
"Can't you fight with out pets Fluttershy?" vs FS
"Hey squirt, leave your toys out of the ring.. those wheels hurt." Vs Scootaloo
"You've been flipped and flopped." vs Gilda
" I reckon that makes me the iron pony" vs Aj
Fluttershy General
"Angel, we really shouldn't cheer for hurting others."
"We did it Angel! I mean good luck next time."
"Did we hit you to hard? I promise to ease up next time."
"I'm not really a I fighter. I just have good friends."

Fluttershy Rival
"You were so graceful Rar- uh.. your face is in the dirt" vs Rarity
"Dash.. did you-did you let me win... Dash?" Vs RD

Twilight general
"Knowledge brings the dawn of vicotory"
"Sleep, Dusk has already set on you."
"Maybe you should read more"
"I read that one in the strategy guide!"

Twilight Rival
"Wait a second. I thought you were fire proof!" vs Spike
"Please please please don't send me to magic kindergarten." Vs Celestia
"Good night moon indeed." Vs Luna
"Silly pony, magic isn't for the uneducated" Vs Trixie

Trixie general
"Theres no such thing as a pony stronger than Trixie."
"Sorry, there's no trying against Trixie"
"Who dares to stand up to the great and powerful Trixie"
"Putting down neigh-sayers is in my job description"

Trixie Rival
"Just an insigificant sparkle in the sunset" Vs Twilight Sparkle
"The most powerful use their magic, cheaters with potions are just tragic." vs Zecora
"Trixie is the new queen of Fireworks" Vs Celestia

Derpy General
"I can see everything."
"So where do I ship you to now?"
"Dail Melivered"
"Don't ever make fun of my eyes again!"

on the execution level how hard are you guys planning on making it?

>>30777
On a scale from 1 to 10? Ninja Gaiden and Battletoad's had a child. That is this game.

The difficulty of both of those games is greatly exaggerated]

I know I should have asked this a while ago, but here it is anyways.

When you guys released the whole thing about the evolution of the GUI, you mentioned that another game, Pokemon Type Wild, also ran on the same engine. Being a Mac user, I thought that it would be a great way to see if it would work on Crossover.

And it did! However, I'm not sure if it's just my computer or not, but it ran a bit sluggish. It was playable in-game, but the menus were almost unbearable.

I know that it has some flashy menu stuff (I can call it that, right?) like sparkles and lights, but when it comes down to it, I only have one thing to ask you.

Will there be a way to change the quality of the game in order for it to be easier on some lower-end computers?

And PTW is in japanese so I'm not sure if there already is an option for this, but it would really be a huge relief if I could actually play it.

>>30782
There is no quality setting I'm afraid. The game should run on most windows computers from about 2002 onwards super smoothly. If it was just the menus that were screwed up then at least you'll be able to play the fighting parts ok!

>>30778

On a serious note, I hope it's somewhere near Blazblue, which my little sister has been hogging for the past 2 hrs trying to beat Arcade mode (the rage is delicious).

On the topic of difficulty: Will normal people be able to beat the game? I try to get some friends into games like Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter, but they usually are turned off by having to learn so much about each character. Guilty Gear I remember had neigh-impossible combos and missions the game expected from the player, it was to the point I do not think it could be fun to casual players.

I am sure the difficulty of this will not effect my opinion on the game, but I am really hoping basically everypony who plays the game can beat arcade mode at least.

>>30782
In theory I'll have a working wrapper for Fighting is Magic ready after it comes out, though I'm not part of the staff, so don't go telling people they said they were going to have a wrapper ready.

I'm going to hold you guys to "2002 onwards" lol

I have a machine that was middle of the road when I bought it in 04. Was planning on getting a new PC this year, but being a broke flank college student is not conducive to such expences.

>>30815
You can test it now by downloading "Vanguard Princess". It's the same engine as Fighting is Magic.

If that works fine, you should have no problem.

>>30816

Thanks, I didn't think of that.

My prediction for lines in a future trailer.

Rarity fights for generosity.
Apple Jack fights for honesty.
Rainbow Dash fights for loyalty.
Fluttershy fights for kindness.
Pinkie Pie fights for laughter.
Twilight Sparkle fights for magic.

What will you fight for?

http://inthegame.nl/videos/my-little-pony-fighting-is-magic-2d-fighter-op-komst/

Found this. Anypony care to translate it? I don't even know what language it is.

>>30839
It's Dutch. Here's a (very rough) translation, provided by google. The English is broken, but you can still understand the gist.

Title: MY LITTLE PONY: FIGHTING, MAGIC - 2D FIGHTER ON THE WAY?

Article: Who does not know of the past? My Little Pony. The series now has a makeover and show a wide group of fans have varying between 13 and 30 years old. Anime-style in a complete My Little Pony has been a new series and the fans will not get enough of. The fans are working on a 2D fighter with the title "My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic" . The first gameplay are all on the world wide web to find and it remains a pre-alpha build. Below is the video.

Below the video: There is (still) no further information on My Little Pony: Fighting, Magic. The only rumor going round that is now at is that the game will be offered free of charge and is expected to be only for the PC, even for mobile gaming.

Somepony out there could probably give you a better one.

>>30841
>Below the video: There is (still) no further information on My Little Pony: Fighting, Magic. The only rumor going round that is now at is that the game will be offered free of charge and is expected to be only for the PC, even for mobile gaming.

Ouch. Talk about a poorly researched article. That being said, I can almost forgive them since most of the information is in English, and I guess they just don't have a good English translator on staff.

I'm starting to think that Anu should change it to a more cynical Frequently Unread Answers to Frequently Asked Questions

Then put it in a flashing rainbow text with Rainbow Dash saluting next to it.

Then you might actually get at least one person reading them per month!

>>30855
Rumor has it that this will be a game that you can play.
Rumor also has it that this game will have ponies.

Only time will tell!

>>30855
Frequently-Answered-Questions-Everypony-Already-Asked just didn't give the same ring to it.

>>30855
FUA!

On reply to twitterposts on a particular person repeated applications to the team:

We've stated multiple times that we don't really accept unsolicited submissions applying for membership to Mane6; We've also mentioned multiple times that when and if a position opens, we'll make a post on our site.

This particular person has applied (and had gotten several people to apply on his behalf) on more than one ocassion. In previous attempts, he's been told the same thing we mention to every other unsolicited applicant: That we're not accepting submissions out of the specified times when we do a call on the site, and that spamming us, or getting people to spam us (to the point we've received messages saying "x told me to come here and say y"), with repeated messages AFTER getting told we're not accepting new people into the team at the moment isn't doing good to his cause.

Now, we're not wanting to make people feel bad when they get rejected; We've gotten applications from really talented people -case in point- that we still have had to reject, because there were no openings available. We are a very small team, and this is still a small fan project, despite the attention it's gotten. We are mostly new to the project management side of things and want to keep things simple and manageable with regards to recruitment.

That said, once again, We don't accept unsolicited submissions for applications to join the team, without exceptions for name or popularity until help is required; If we need a hand, we'll let you guys know in the site, and give everypony the opportunity to tryout, on equal footing, based solely on their talent and desire to join the team through the proper methods.

We're just not sure how to make it more clear.

If people can't follow the proper procedure, when and if the positions open, and instead prefer to campaign via repeated attempts to poke their way into the team, we'll be less inclined to have them in, regardless of their talent. Asking one time is understandable. Twice is stretching it. Three times are more than enough.

>>30887
I've only got one thing to say about people like that, and it's not a very nice thing to say, but I'm going to say it anyway:
Idiots.

>>30894
I would've gone with the word "unprofessional" personally.

And do you really want a coworker who's unprofessional, regardless of their skill?

>>30895
>And do you really want a coworker who's unprofessional, regardless of their skill?

That's the problem with all great projects, they -always- end up attracting attention seekers who feel like they MUST join the group to bask in the infinite E-Praise and stuff.
So yeah, some people never understand that there's no "I" in "Team"

>>30916
What's kind of annoying about is that they start to claim we are getting "big heads", ie, getting big egos, when the whole reason they want to join in the first place is (as they admitted) to fuel their ego and popularity. It's absurd!

>>30919
OMG, Monkeyjay! Man, how have you been?

And more than absurd, it's hypocrite as they claim that anypony who doesn't go out of their way to fuel their egos is automatically a selfish person with a big, evil ego.

>>30920
Unfortunately, hypocrisy seems to be synonymous with humanity.

Is there going to be a playable demo at BroNYcon?

Heya folks! Just dropping in to say hurry your bums up! What's going on here? Don't tell me you're playing games and sitting around! Let's get moving!

I mean how long has this been going on? A long freakin' time! I know it takes a long time but really! I'm not raging at ya, I'm providing that message that you get when you're halfway through a project to activate that little voice in your head that makes you more motivated to make something happen.

Plus I haven't been here in a while so make of this message as you will XD How are you guys doing?

Can somepony give me a confirmation date for it's release? If not that at least a speculation release date? I've searched countless websites, including the mane 6 website and I always come up with nothing.

>>31022
"soon"

>>31022
When it's done.

Has the official tier list for the announced characters been released yet, or are you waiting until the game is closer to release? Really hoping Rarity is low-tier. I hate feeling cheap for just wanting to play my favorite character.

>>31029
Tiers are generally something that emerge through extensive playing and it will likely take much more than the development team's testing to come up with an even remotely reliable list. I guarantee you there will be combos and strategies the developers haven't thought of and will not discover before launch when the game is released to the masses. The goal of any game should be to make it balanced, and as such, planning tier lists in advance would be completely silly. I wouldn't expect an official tier list from the developers ever: it's more likely that the community will compile one once there's some data to base it on.

Of course that's just my view on it so I may be completely wrong.

>>31029
Play whoever you like, tier lists aren't written law and should be taken with a grain of salt.

As >>31031 said, tier lists take time and players putting effort into learning every intricacy of a character and all their matchups. Week 1 stuff is generally not indicative of how the game will balance out in the long run. So, if something seems overpowered or broken at first, odds are it isn't.

>>31029

>>31034
Agreed. What?

>>31029

>Site Updated

On BroNYCon (Just a small reminder + Mane6 Schedule)

http://www.mane6.com/2011/12/mane6-at-bronycon-part-ii.html

>>31031
>The goal of any game should be to make it balanced, and as such, planning tier lists in advance would be completely silly.

>>31032
>if something seems overpowered or broken at first, odds are it isn't.

But I was just foalin' around, anyhoof.

>>31047

Ohh, this is going to be good!

I will catch the popcorn to see THE WHOLE THING(All of then, but specially AJ/Dash dulbator[which I can't record her name, but I know it is the lead vocal in the something Wave band] and YOU GUYS).

Also, I know you couldn't aswner this question, but as a fan of Gummy: Is it going to appear in Pinkie'attack? Any Attack?

So... will Rainbow have Wave DASHing?

>>31199

She will be Waving Dashing in Style.

will there be a "destroy the barn" minigame?

guess the reference ;)

i know there won't , but i couldn't resist

Just caught the BroNYCon stream, and all I gotta say is... DAMN! That was intense! Pinkie and Rarity reveal, plenty of gameplay, and even letting some fans play. Just the whole thing was awesome. Thanks for the wonderful job you guys are doing, and I can't wait for the release :D

Saw the stream! And here are my toughts!

1: Twilight is looking like your typical Ryu Character. She has some raps, but sh is mainly focused on Ground to Air combos and her specials.

2: AJ is badass! Her Magic system is nice and gosh, she is playing wonderfuly! She WILL be my main.

3: Rarity is a zoner. I guessed right. Her Magic system will be using gems to create fabolus effects on her projectiles. I will try to play with her, but I can't see very potential(I suck at zoning)

4: Pinkie got beaten like a dog down there! But she has wonderful mechanics. A quick combo, multi hit Charger? I can't think on any fighting game that has it(at least not right now, thanks to the hype).

5: Rarity's theme is magical. Even I prefering AJ's theme, Rarity's make you want to fight in the most glamorous way.

Total: That was a BADASS stream! Hop to see more of then soon!

Is there going to be a recording put up anywhere? I missed most of it.

For those of you who watched the stream, post your thoughts/summaries here! Some of us missed it. :<

Bah, I forgot it was the 7th today. I hope recordings will pop up sooner or later. I can't believe I missed the stream.

>>31322

I'm a bit disappointed in myself. How did I not know there was a stream?! Either way I'm so looking forward to this, I know it'll be well worth the wait.

http://www.justin.tv/everfreemedia/b/304803236

TINY part of VOD.

The rest will likely be up in a few hours. It's the automatic 4-hourly VOD capture from the Justin TV stream, and the next chunk will have all of the rest of the Fighting Is Magic content.

>>31322
>Twilight is a Ryu character

I... uh... what?

>Teleports
>Traps
>Fragile with low HP
>No Shoryuken
>No Hurricane kick

I mean, to be fair she does have a Hadouken, but still. She's clearly an extreme zoner, and I doubt a stronger zoner will be added to the game out of all 17 characters (If there is one, I'd be truly scared)

>>31327

http://www.justin.tv/everfreemedia/b/304803236
http://www.justin.tv/everfreemedia/b/304813594

VOD up.

Rarity kicks flank as expected. I like what I'm seeing. Are there any plans on releasing a high quality version of Rarity's stage theme? It's difficult to make the music out from the off-screen footage.

>>31334

Mane6's twitter: "Rarity's theme, by DJ Derpy Hooves, on youtube: Soon!. Real soon. Keep tuned ;)"

Presumably http://www.youtube.com/user/EveryPonyVideos
but not up yet.

>>31336
Great! Thank you.

Will there be a better video of that going up somewhere? I find some of it hard to hear. Also, what are the timestamps for different landmark points? Like Part 2, about 2:45 is where the AJ/Twi fight starts.

I was expecting Rarity to be a zoning character of some sort. I never would have thought she'd do anything else, but by the discriptions and what I was able to see she looks like she'll be playing similar to Mu.

Rarity Mu 12, I was expecting something closer to Rachel or whatever it is that Bridget does, but this is a pleasant surprise.

At the same time Applejack reminded me of Hakumen and Hazama. She has the counter and the lasso works similarly to Hazama's ourboros or Spencer's bionic arm. Calling her Apple Hazamen.

Then with Twilight the charging reminds me of Tsubaki Yayoi but the way she plays seems to be similar to Aoka from Melty Blood.

And Pinkie reminded me just a bit of Taokaka and Platinum the Trinity.

This is probably going to be real easy to pick up for players of Blaz Blue and Guilty Gear.

>mfw bionic apples

definitely maneing Rarity now.

Good work guys

Will you be able to disable each of these ?
-Music
-Sound Effects
-Voices

Let's say i only want the sound effects, and i wanna play a different song while i'm playing the game. Will i be able to do that ?

Is there going to be an option to set the time limit for a match?

Oh lawd...
I had a big stupid grin on my face the whole time. I don't know any crazy fighter lingo, so I'll just say that this is my favorite fan-made anything ever. I am so excited for this. My brony friends and I are planning a little tournament. Considering you guys already have 4 characters mostly done, with only 2 to go until the first release, and have been working for about 8 months now, I'm guessing we might have it by... Mid Summer - Early Fall? Hopefully-maybe?

>>31342
Is she similar to Nu at all? I haven't seen the videos yet, but Lambda is the character I have the most fun with in BB, so I'm hoping for somepony like that in FiM. And Rarity is my favorite of the Mane 6, so if she turned out like my favorite BB character, well, it'd be perfect.

Oh Applejack, we're gonna destroy so many ponies when this is released. There's nothing I love more than a rushdown character with command grabs.

>>31353
Well it's running on the Fighter Maker Engine, and Mane6 said before that these are a hard coded aspects of the engine. So you know, it's pretty easy to check Vanguard Princess or Type Wild or something, and you see that you can mute music. From Vanguard Princess, it seems like voices are just fancy sound effects, they aren't grouped separately. So if you mute sound effects, you mute voices too.

inb4 I'm wrong as I'm only loosely certain on this one.

>31356
OOOH but I totally got this one. Remember that a huge portion of the development time was learning the engine, learning how to program, and just setting up the base code of the game. I had estimated before that it would take about 1 month per character once they got all the base stuff down. And it's been about 2 months since Twilight Sparkle's trailer, and we've now seen Pinkie and Rarity. So it looks like my estimate was pretty correct (Damn I'm good at foreseeing development time).

That doesn't mean you should expect to see the game released in March. There will likely be another month or so of polishing and bug testing before release. So my estimate is mid-April

DISCLAIMER: I am not affiliated with Mane6 so any quoting of this time frame as factual will result in the swift decapitation of the person who quoted me.

>>31360
Suffice to say though that the results will be fabulous regardless of the wait. Though if your prediction is true, it will be hell for me since that would be just a few weeks before my finals.

>>31360

I don't think it's like that. All the characters seem to be developing in parallel. Applejack isn't completed today, but they had graphics for Rarity up even at the time of the livestream months ago.

They also have the single player mode to do, and if they want that as polished as MP it will take months by itself. That will have near-full characters to program and animate other than the six.

I'd say Summer is optimistic.

>>31363
Well shit.

I kinda wonder how much influence the comments have on the game, it seems like they read all the comments I'm just curious as to if any of them have sparked new ideas or influenced the game's development (since they started production that is)

>>31391
I'm sure some have! Some comments we love the idea but it's just practically not viable to implement or would go in the wrong direction for a character or what have you.

To be completely honest though, most of the ideas we see in the comments we ourselves have come up with at some point. I mean there are quiet a few of us and we spent a lot of time thinking of things. Since most ideas are based on stuff in the show + fighting game mechanics, and collectively the team knows an awful lot about both of those categories, it's only natural that a few similar ideas float up to lots of peoples minds.

What this tells us is that we are probably on the right track about a lot of things. We don't want to ignore peoples expectations just to be contrary and original. There are also things we have done/are going to do that no one has even come close to commenting about. And we do take a bit of pride in that :)

The game continues to excite us as we hope it does you guys when you get to see it :)

Will all the stages be flat, or will some of them have platforms?

>>31398
This is a traditional fighter so in all probability, every stage will be exactly the same except for the aesthetics.