I’m not the guy responsible for the project. I’m just among this because both posts have been archived and I’m desperate to hear anything about this game. I NEED TO LIVE IN EQUESTRIAAnd remember don’t be a pedophile
>>43554916i am waiting for the anonponies and non vr version.
>>43554916Oh, thanks Anon. I'M the dev. Here's the home screen.
Here's autumn.
>>43555140>those headsPlease modelanon, save this game quick.
>>43502395 >>43541961 Previous threads (archived)
>>43555140>That stallionHOLY MINECRAFT STEVE GIGACHAD
I wish to be the little pony.
>>43555720Ooo, neat
>>43555720How will Ponyville manage when she steals the tendie supply?
>>43555720Is playing as the filly a flatscreen only thing? Wondering what that’d look like in VR.
>>43555812Yes. You need four hooves to stand, so having two controllable arms doesn't really work.
>>43555720>Find your feetI prefer my fillies without feet thanks
>>43555140Needs some leaves scattered around on the ground.
>>43556172Not sure how I'd do this in a way that doesn't rape performance but I agree and I'll try
I see that Big Mac cutiemark!!!Best boy confirmed!!!
>>43555817You could make it a unicorn and have magic hands or something.
>>43554916Will it be possible to eat the ponies whole?
The way I'm going about the upcoming release is basically using the playerbase as alpha testers. You guys will probably find a myriad of issues, I'm expecting dozens, that will need to be patched over the first few weeks or so, because of just how large and dynamic the game is. I couldn't playtest all of it, at least not efficiently, if only for the reason that I am but one man. When (not if) you find a bug, I'll have a public scrumboy to report them to. >>43556298That is actually a really good idea! I'll add that! I'll just make it so that Anon, as any race, can use "unicorn" levitation magic to hold shit in VR. It's a little off-canon, but it's a clever solution, and can be handwaved (hoofwaved) away by saying human magic shit is weird. I don't think constant magic visible hands would work since "Hands" aren't really a concept in Equestria, but it'll be little glowy indications of where your hands are and whatever you grab gets a magic sheen around it in sync with the color of your eyes. I'll try to have a function to switch between that and controlling the bones of your actual pony legs so you can boop a pony with your hoof.
>>43555136will there be a smaller map option for better performance? I don't think twice the size of Skyrim is totally necessary, personally.
>>43556574Tried it; gets around 5-10 FPS more. It's already a default option on Medium and Low settings, so if you need the extra FPS turn down the render distance.
>>43556794What are your specs?
I agree with this strongly, I’d love to have a fully realised Equestria the size of Skyrim.I would also love if this game had photorealistic graphics. I would also love if this game hired the voice actors from the show and also was co-directed by Faust.But I can have that. I think it would be best if anon dev just focuses on smaller things, like Ponyville. I mean most of us are probably going to stay in Ponyville longer than other places anyways.
>>43557008>I would also love if this game hired the voice actors from the show and also was co-directed by Faust.that's just a impossible pipe dream anon
>>43557012Impossible? There's a 0.000000001% chance. Never give up.
>>43557012Faust has been coming to cons so the chance is increasing
>>43557008>I would also love if this game hired the voice actors from the show and also was co-directed by Faust.Anon, this is a sandbox game where you create your own story in Equestria using AI. I imagine the "story" is going to be a short intro about you getting to Equestria. Everything after that is up to you and the AI.
>>43557012anything is possible with the power of friendship anon, you just need to hope!
>>43557442Basically this. >>43557008I am going to focus, essentially, on Canterlot, Ponyville and Cloudsdale exclusively for the first long while until those three places are fun to be in and go between and then add content for the rest at my leisure. Right now I am focusing exclusively on Ponyville for an alpha release.
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>>43555759Veggie tendies, you mean?
Anon we need more updates on the project, I wanna play it so bad.
Currently my favourite thing in life is figuring out if I’m going to kill myself before or after this game is released.Playing this game will probably delay my suicide as I would finally get to pretend the mane 6 are my friends, but I’d have to get to that point firstNo pressure on anon dev though
>>43554916I would be happy to contribute to the project if it was open source
Will there be villians like King Sombra, Queen Chryallsis, Tirek, etc.?
The mini-game for acting as a substitute teacher for Cheerilee will be disastrous
DEV:try this TTS model, I hear it's fast afhttps://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle
>>43559465oops I meant SPEECH-2-TEXT
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>>43560206Why is Pinkie looking at me like that?
>>43560267she's read your AI ERP chat logsshe knows
>>43560206Silly ponies don't know how doors work and they'd rather get into a traffic jam and clip into each other than just WALK INSIDE.
Making a game is really hard, actually!"Delay your game, or I'll delay your breathing."-Shigeru MiyamotoExpect ~3 more weeks.
Can't remember if I showed this already. Dashie's cloudiminium.
Sugarcube Corner.
Hanging out with Lyra.
>>43560474Looks great
SHOW TRIXIE!!!
I really hope BonBon is an absolute bitch to us and Lyra constantly gushes about the human and asks us random questions about our biology “Do humans lay eggs?”
>>43560474>>43560477>>43560490Holy shit. You're making these environments look great. One thing about the head, is it possible to just shrink the X axis a tad? That might help them look better and less wide. Hopefully not too much that it looks weird.
>>43560474>>43560477>>43560490Just asking for the future, once you're near done with the game and polish things up could I use your mlp assets to make a Left 4 Dead 2 campaign? Thanks.
>>43560628Yes. Everything is free.
>>43560490these environments look great, but you need to show the great and powerful trixie.
>>43560626Thoughts?
>>43560650Not good, but less worse.Guess this kind of tweak will have to do until some Anon make an actually good head.
>>43560652What would make more gooder?
>>43560650Hmm, I'd say leave the stallions as they were before, but personally I do think that looks better, especially on the fillies. Might look better in game too.
>>43560477Get off the table you fat, sexy bitch
>>43554916 I bought a VR for this. Anon, I believe in you and this project - PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF MARES don't give up on it.
>>43560729Actually??
>>43560729Guess you will have to play PonyVRville or Besti in the meantime.
>>43560736Yeah, Oculus Quest 3s, my first VR experience. My vestibular system is still out of whack.
>>43560743Didn't know these projects existed, thanks for the tip.
>>43560729I was planning on doing this exact same thing lol.
>>43560747>an anon actually spent upwards of $300 to play MY GAME Well, fuck. I owe it to (You). Even if I give up on developing more features and fleshing out the game even further, I will still release the game as it is, which is entirely playable right now as just cute AI ponies doing cute stuff, with quite a lot to do. So rest assured that the game is already 'done' and has a 0% chance of not being put out there in any capacity. I cross my heart hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye, that I won't just vanish. Right now it's just being refined, polished, and further featured before initial release.
>>43560754Man, ponies are worth it.>>43560762Dev, there are definitely enthusiasts out there willing to support the project with donations (I remember I wanted to contribute another 10, but the project page on Kofi wasn't accepting donations anymore). So I can only wish you luck and patience as you work on the project -there are Anons who are really interested in it. And thanks for what you've ALREADY done.
>>43560753>Didn't know these projects existedGonna shill Ramage too then, although it's 99.9% porn and 0.01% booping & rewatching the show next to Luna on the Moon.Clopician also made a bunch of VR videos, F95Zone has an archive.
>>43560747Protip for when you're still getting your VR legs: take a travel sickness pill before playing. And if you do get sick, ginger helps. It won't take long for your brain to get used to it after a while.
>>43560650Eh. Based on this pic I like the old ones more. Pony heads are supposed to be round, and the narrower ones look more oval.
>>43560784A movie with Luna? That sounds nice. Thanks.>>43560792I've already tried out Boneworks, not bad as i thought. It's a bit unusual, but my main enemy so far is the IRL walls, kek.
>>43560722>"Get off the table you fat, sexy bitch">>"But Nonny, if I'm not on the table I won't be high enough for the people outside to see me!"https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2023/11/12/3239186.webmNow you all know why the dev insist on houses having actual interiors.
>>43560871>Pony heads are supposed to be round, and the narrower ones look more oval.
We’re all so excited for this game, it’s basically our dream come trueWhen this is released I can’t wait to live 24/7 in equestria until the headset causes my eyes to bleed and I starve to death from only eating AJ’s virtual apple pies
>>43560650>>43560890I think somewhere between 1-3% narrower is probably the answer.
>>43561113The problem with that direct comparison is the entire face proportions, not just the skull outline.Current heads have way fatter muzzle/jaw and way smaller eyes.
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Do you have plans of adding make up for the characters? Idk if it was discussed before. But it would be cool to be able to choose a pony's make up, like rarity's eyeshadows.
>>43560474Pretty!
>>43561792the ability to draw on things and ponies. make up on mares at day, dicks on walls at night
>>43562267KEK this is a good idea shit. I should add painting I think
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I would murder my parents to play this game
>>43562929Hey anon so, I don't think that's a good idea.
>>43562929I'm afraid you'll have to... snow them no pity
>>43557008>I would also love if this game had photorealistic graphics.
>>43562929This game is going to be as good as AI model being used and how good the promping is. If those fail you'd kill your parents for a game that feel hollow with the most uninteresting NPCs to interact with
To the dev, as a future transport option I really hope you'll be able to use the train to travel around Equestria in real time. One of my favorite VR experiences was the VRChat Friendship Express map, just sightseeing with the show accurate landscape and landmark locations in the distance, listening to the chugging of the train while instrumental songs from the show play, it was unbelievably soulful. It's one of the few times VR has made me feel emotional.
>>43563395This is a planned future feature. I have already implemented reading with in-world books, those books being hundreds of imported fimfics. I'll look up that VRChat world and see what I can learn from how it looks.
a guy in a discord server i'm in said he was "making out" with his own plushies after watching the "kissing and booping mares" videoprepare for unimaginable consequences, anon
>>43563395And you're the one who has to drive the train!You'll be thrown into an involved, high-stakes steam locomotive conductor mini-game!And if you don't, then the trains won't ever go anywhere!
>>43563553>he hasn't been making out with his plushies for years
>>43563553So? At least he doesn't make out with his plushy's ass. That would be crazy.
>>43563570yooo this is no cap like dead rails fr fr
>>43563570This should be optional so you can either enjoy the scenery, or earn bits or something for doing the mini game.
>>43563674>>43563570VRChat has a looping ponyville train map.It's rather comfy, if you need something to take inspiration from.
>>43563395>train to travel around Equestriahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6qBCFgSgrsKino.....
https://scrumboy.com/uwhospmqIf you'd like to watch how progress is developing here's a scrumboy of most things that are planned. Still quite a bit missing. After project release, this will also serve as bug reports.
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>>43564820This is really nice to see, hope you don't get overwhelmed with your project.
>>43564820>Call a pony from anywhereHow about a flare gun and having multicolored flares in inventory Shooting one into the sky calls upon a ponyAre you thinking about spawning it in the vicinity, like RDR2 does? Or having it more complex, like making a pony travel from wherever they are?Could also be a system that compares how much a pony likes you vs distance. If one is unlikely to follow you around town, why would they bother going anywhere when you call. Or I guess AI will handle deciding it if the call is just a prompt for it to find you
I think a whistle would be better. I feel like a flare gun would just leave such an ugly trail in the sky. I think a whistle, with a wheel selection for a pony, would be a quicker and more lore friendly way of doing so.It also allows ALL ponies to be summoned. Flares would be restricted by colours. For example a purple flare might signify Twilight or Cheerilee. A whistle could be preloaded with the mane 6 and then if you want, you could tag a pony and then whistle for them later.Whistles are also just more intuitive, being something you would use on an actual horse.
I also feel like having a flaregun in a mlp game like this out be a little out of place. Why not instead having a letter item where you specify which pony you want to meet, then derpy comes right away, takes the letter and then the pony you wanted to see shows up?
>>43565214>>43565259>>43565271>MLP>flare
>>43565271>you ask Derpy for a pony>after a moment she comes back and drops a crate with the pony inside shipping and handling
>>43564820>More clothes for AnonMake it so you'll have to go to Rarity's boutique for the outfit change. https://u.pone.rs/esotwgmm.webm
>>43566134That is the intended feature, yes
Breaking news!!!Derpy Hooves, beloved mailmare, was secretly organising a equine trafficking ring in Ponyville Pinkie Pie commented on the controversy “Ain’t no party like a Derpy party”
>>43566457that's complex, I just want a paddlepop
>>43566457Add a Trixie suit. Purple with stars like her cape.
>>43565420mareflare
>>43566663Cute. I will. >>43566460>>43565720Kek>>43565259Whistle is a good idea; it'll be an option exclusively to ponies who are 1. In the same town/city as you, and 2. have become one of your Close Friends. Either that, or the AI can trigger it once you become a Close Friend. I capitalize "Close Friend" to emphasize that it's the relationship scorer feature like the PPP impressions mod rather than a nebulous concept of deep kinship
>>43567073I like you anon. You're receptive to my possibly shite ideas.I like the idea of "unlocking" more stuff depending on how friendly you are with a pony. Being able to call them is a good start.
>>43567270This is a board project. The board has as much input as me, its creator, who will add nonsense with impunity until I run out of breath or money.
>>43566134>a generalismo outfit that displays badges for achievements/friends madestrive to be the top friendship general
>>43556566Honestly I love the idea for a unicorn but it sounds immersion breaking for anyone else. Ponies lean back on their hind legs to hold stuff or raise their forelegs all of the time; maybe some optional way to toggle raising your hooves would work so it doesn't look super jank with your hooves up constantly?
Directing, programming, modelling and writing a game is very hard.Doing all of that while also taking requests from weirdos on the internet makes you a godamn saintHuge respects
>>43567405Maybe make it so the hooves only raise when you are holding something. Then have "ghost" hands when not holding something so you know where your hands are. Don't know if that would be possible or if it would look strange.
Where is the video of Dash's ass getting slapped? I never got to see it
Will we be able to get some kind of video player for our home that can play locally stored videos? Something like how Voices of the Void or Besti VR does it. I wanna cuddle ponies while working through my backlog
>>43568658>Voices of the VoidWait, this is a thing in there? Friend of mine that I watch play it must've never unlocked a TV or I never noticed it in the buy list.
Release is taking longer than I'd like. This shit is really hard... Some part of me is telling me I'm running out of time! But for what? I do not know. >checks post date of first threadIt's been around 2 months since I had the idea. Am I making good pace? The larger it gets, the harder it becomes to make new features, and working backwadds to previous features reveals the issues of how they intermingle. At some point, I have to call it done, so I'm not gonna add any MORE features and just work on refining what is already here.
>>43569161I'll be a bit harsh, but know I'm 100% supportive of the project and appreciate what you're doing. It's really cool.>Release is taking longer than I'd like.>It's been around 2 months since I had the idea. Am I making good pace?You were a bit too optimistic with the first estimation, IMO. It's the classic 90/10 rule; the last few optimizations and bug fixes will take way more time than you expect.The more you advance, the more difficult it gets for the models too due to the size and complexity of the project. You'll need to test things yourself, and adding a feature can break others you've already done, so testing compounds the further along you go.There's also the motivation/morale factor. You're excited at the start because cool stuff is getting implemented, but the more you work on fixes and small things, the more that excitement fades. It's normal, but it's why a lot of hobby projects die in the "almost done" phase.I'm really glad another anon pushed you to focus only on Ponyville and the bare system first, because you were really scope creeping. I still think you are to some extent, but less so now.Still, at the end of the day, you're doing a hobby fan project, so don't sweat it if you need more time. I would've said you're free of expectations, but you did take donations, so still focus on delivering something. Just take your time. Better to release something solid late than something broken early. Everyone expects bugs in a first release, but if it's totally broken, you'll have more difficulty regaining anons' interest in the future or having them have faith in the project.
>>43569186I'm testing right now. Playing the game as I would an end user, having fun, and it's going quite well, if not for a few minor things. I have all I need to ship a delivered, mostly functional game, where you talk to AI ponies that come up and hang out with you. After the release I'm sure I'll be... flooded, with bug reports, but after the v1.1 patch all will be fine, probably. I only have one game tester besides for myself. >I agree that the ponyville focus was very, very necessary. I still think that, 2 months from "basic idea and walking simulator with no ponies" to what I have now is making pretty good time. And I'm well aware of the 90/10 rule... My most problematic area is AI control over the ponies and navigation. I'm working on it and it's getting better, but because there are so many infinite edge cases, it will never be perfect. There are just some things it can't do. Getting a good navigation system is really hard, as well. Dynamic pathing is a fucking nightmare.You don't fuck with people's money, though, so I'm working really hard on getting the game to be up to snuff with what was promised.
>>43569161Bruh, it's a full VR experience. This shit is far further than we would've seen by now. Quit worrying about how much time it's taking and worry about getting down the basics. Then worry about the things you want in it in an order you designate. Checklist that shit to keep yourself in line. Brick by brick baby.
>>43569161You're being more transparent than a lot of people would be, and are pretty damn quick all things considered. I don't think anyone would've expected even a third of this done by now. Stop stressing out.
>>43569388>>43569220Thanks, Anons. That makes me feel better.On an unrelated note;Drawfags, we need (You)! /r/equesting a logo/icon for Home: Equestria!
>>43569396Anon you should take as much time as you possibly can so the game turns out perfect, also you are genuinely really fast compared to any big company or even indie game studios nowadays.
WE BELIEVE IN YOUWE BELIEVE IN EQUESTRIACELESTIA PROTECTS
>>43569396yooi'm going to try doing something
>>43569396An attempt was made
>>43570093Holy sovl...
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>>43570093That is really nice, anon!
>>43570093We're done here. Good job, Anon, it's soulful as fuck.
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>>43570176awesome! glad you liked it!
>>43570176>>43570093blessedeven if u ignore my shitposts, dev (probably for the best)
>>43568819It's one of the most fun features, that and the 3d printerhttps://u.pone.rs/cfogjkny.webm>>43570093This is great anon!
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>>43570176"But dev," I hear you cry. "Wouldn't that logo be too detailed for the taskbar's 32x32 image?" Fret not. Witness my creative genius
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>>43570805beautiful as always
>>43570093>>43570176Vgh...Eqvestria, home...
Mare Gear Solid V The Phantom Pony
Will my marefriend sit on my face if I ask?
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Give us a sign anon, give us an update please.
>>43578507I'm working on a new youtube video.
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>>43555140Winter will be kino, everypony in scarves and coats, retiring inside at night to a lit fireplace with some hot cocoa, maybe a pony to cuddle by it too...
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>>43570093I think the “Equestria” text is a bit too small compared to the rest of the logo and won’t look good against some backgrounds. Other than that it’s great
