A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.
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Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM
Keg: Yep. In fact, the initial concept took a lot of cues from Fire Emblem. Revisions had changed it into something very different, though.
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiI remember my first post in the pony thread was a massive info dump on my ideas for a pony!Fire Emblem game. Sigh. Damn you, thread nuke!
I dream of the day I can use this.
edited 11th May '14 8:48:24 PM by Wryte
Well the games I made I wrote in C++ using SDL, but that is not a path I would recommend. I would say Py Game, but it seemed too slow to me.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayWryte: I was on a team that had gotten together to make a Pony Emblem, but it suffered bloat because the original ROM hack idea we had failed via the ROM crashing after we made initial modifications. Bloat created attrition and by the end of it, I was the last active member on the project. :/
EDIT: Note that Pony Emblem is completely separate from the SRPG I'm making for myself.
edited 11th May '14 9:11:41 PM by KuroiTsubasaTenshi
FE: New Mystery Only Feet 7PM PT Sun, Mon, Fri; Umamusume Haru Arima 7PM PT Wed, Thurs: http://www.twitch.tv/kuroitsubasatenshiI wanna see an "is this supposed to be humorous" pic where Tirek is gesturing toward a blank spot that says "your post."
http://h0useb0und.tumblr.com/My current project is to create a fangame for a contest that ends June 1st. I thought a week and a half would be more than enough time, but unfortunately it took me most of that time just to get my libraries set up and makefile working (I also spent 3 days reading Harry Potter And The Natural 20). Now I only have a few days left before I leave for vacation.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayAlright, time for me to watch the finale.
Why does everything important anymore happen in the Crystal Empire? The villain there's dead. It's not exactly a nexus of destiny anymore.
Dammit Spike, shut up. You're not going to steal the finale, and even Rainbow Dash is tired of your shit. Please come back next season with better writing.
Twilight invokes the Chinese Curse of an Interesting Life.
Facial assault — the only true morale booster.
Twilight, who wanted her princess role to be minor so she didn't lose her friends, is now complaining that her princess role is minor.
Flash Sentry gets a speaking role, and then probably runs off to play his douche-tar.
What the fuck is up with that dignitary's beard? It looks like he ate a ferret.
Spike fucked up his line badly enough that even Pinkie Pie is giving him the stink eye.
Something makes me giggle when I see the guy say "Your Highness" to a pony who's like a third his size.
"And all I do is smile and wave. Oh, and circumvent frequent apocalypsi, but who the hell cares about that."
ANGST SONG — oh wait, it's probably the best one all season. And then it turns into an awesome princess trio. That's pretty much the sort of thing I was hoping they'd do since the series started.
"Your time will come. And it will involve violently dispatching bad guys."
Tirek is a senile hobo who eats souls. Best villain already.
So Tia and Luna know about Tirek, and they really did bring Twilight under the pretense of bureaucracy so they could have her on hoof as Princess Death Ray.
Or they're ditching her and bringing in Discord. And not Fluttershy to keep him pointed in the right direction.
"There's a bad guy poking around. I'm going to go off alone to a dark, remote castle now."
Yes. Antagonize the chaos god who's supposed to be saving your plots from the lord of evil. Brilliant.
To be fair, I'd rather Discord be the one to smile and wave at overstuffed dignitaries. Because he'd probably use it as a distraction for whoopee cushions.
Seriously, if they'd all stop antagonizing each other long enough to figure it out, they'd know Discord a) is totally gunning for the trickster mentor role and b) would kick ass at it.
"There's only one way to find out — read every single book in the castle except the one Discord told us to and helpfully bookmarked."
Oh look. The ponies always being dicks to the chaos god is biting them in the plot. SURPRISED FACE -_-
Pinkie is unfairly profiling that rubber chicken.
So that's how the box opens. You just throw shit at it at high speeds.
Tirek has the Eye of Sauron as a hat.
So...the princesses' plan is to ditch their magic instead of fighting back. BRILLI-wait, no, that's silly.
TO BE CONTINUATED.
Princess Death Ray is best Princess.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.You seem to be forgetting Apples Together.
Blind Final Fantasy 6 Let's PlayYes, good question. Why Twilight? Why not dump it into a princess with a bit more experience who can use all that magic to drop stellar objects on a bitch?
Tia, Tirek's been wandering dark alleyways since Season 2. I'm pretty sure he knows there's a new princess princessing around by now. I mean, there's been posters and little girls' toys, and he likes playing with the latter in secret when he thinks his underlings aren't watching.
So the plan is to turn Twilight into Magic Pony Batman. And then she teams up with Russian Martian Batman, Green Lantern Batman, and Regular-Ass Batman and they go batshit on Tirek.
"Uh...that looks big. I don't think it's going to OWCH, WATCH IT" (Brazzers)
HEY GUYS CELESTIA JUST SAID A JESUS LINE
Twilight accidentally crashes the sun into Equestria. BAD END.
Okay, that was the most badass way of opening a door I've ever seen. Ever.
Dat Trollestia face.
Twilight is going to King Kai's planet for a training montage.
Give your regards to Cerberus? And then sends them to Tartarus? Didn't the princesses employ Cerberus? They can just be all "yo dawg let us out" and he be all "yo ponies belly rubs plz". This is the least effective plan for incapacitating them ever.
Tirek just gave Discord the Triforce of Power. Obviously Twilight has Courage, and Celestia broke Wisdom into eight pieces but they're all in the box.
"I think we've warned everypony to stay inside. We miss anyone?" "Um...us."
Damn you Tirek. Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal. Also, Lord of Betrayal. He's still called that, right? Might've been a good thing for Tia to put in the briefing.
Twilight's doing a really bad job of running away.
Hey, at least she saved Owlbro from pulling a Hedwig.
"You can eat the souls of strangers. You can eat the souls of the princesses. You can even eat the souls of my friends. But NOBODY trashes my books!"
Okay, whoa. The Dragon Ball Z thing was just a joke. You don't have to...well, this episode was clearly written for bronies.
Jesus Christ, right down to the floating gravel and smashing each other through mountains.
Okay, I get that this is supposed to be her "difficult decision" about friendship and the key is probably the thing Tirek gave Discord. But it...kinda hinges on him actually letting them go. And y'know, Lord of Betrayal.
Okay, so we went from DBZ to Super Sentai. Really, really tacky Sentai. Rainbow Dash looks like Walt Disney shat on Freakazoid.
So the box was also a Town-In-A-Box.
Except instead of cool steampunk, it's a virus-tree. I name Twilight's new digs Herpes Tree.
"I believe I have the power to spread the magic of friendship across Equestria. NANOHA STYLE."
All of Ponyville is like, it's so hideous I can't stop looking at it.
And it wouldn't be complete without a Discolestia tease.
Okay, that was pretty awesome. A little boneheaded at times and Hasbro's sense of aesthetics in toys is as atrocious as always, but epic enough to forgive that.
edited 11th May '14 10:55:58 PM by Pykrete
Save the terrible but hilarious History Rap, those were all good runners-up too.
I feel like I would've enjoyed Music In You more if it wasn't the only song their group seemed to know and gone through like eight times. It was getting kinda like the Mos Eisley cantina band by the end of things there.
edited 11th May '14 10:59:55 PM by Pykrete
@Kyler: Iron Will wishes he had the swagger of Tirek. And unlike Iron Will, Tirek didn't skip Leg Day.
Visit my Tumblr! I may say things. The Bureau ProjectSo, on a whim I just watched all of EQUESTRIA GIRLS. Not the movie, the absurd youtube parody series that began before anyone knew anything about EQG beyond the leaked character designs. I think it killed some brain cells.

@Kuroi: Tactics engine... like, a strategy game kinda thing?
I remember working on a Fire Emblem esque strategy game in college... the guy who was programming that system got VERY little sleep.
The game was about a war between unicorns and Narwhals. That was a fun concept. We never got to introduce a larger story, but the whole war had been engineered by a rhinoceros scientist. It was called Monoceros. I'd like to work with the concept again some day.
Birthright: an original web novel about Dragons, the Burdens of Leadership, and Mangoes.