YotesMark
@yotesmark.bsky.social
Black-Owned Indie GameDev Studio creating #BattleGemPonies Check us out: http://patreon.com/YotesMark
#UnicornTraining Freshly Patched (as of 2026) We got the game to a state where it'll be easier to patch it up from now on. We can make no promises on the matter while BGP is taking up so much of the plate, but there's a laundry list of minor tweaks that we'd like to make.
Happy 2nd Anniversary BGP! 🎊💎🎉 What a wild couple years it's been... Thank you all for following this game's journey from fever dream to pipe dream to dream game. Check out the Latest Patreon Post to see how it's going and play the Act 1 Alpha! www.patreon.com/YotesMark/po...
Happy 2nd Anniversary BGP! 🎊💎🎉 | YotesMark
It's been 2 wild years since Battle Gem Ponies first launched on Mobile! (And we still remember what a roller coaster of emotions that first
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Alpha3 Build Now Available for All Backers Version 1.0.15 (same password as before, found in devlogs) - A much less buggy build of Act 1 - Revamped battle calculations system - Rebalanced battles, catch rates, and wild spawns #indiegame #mlp #brony #pokemon yotesmark.itch.io/battle-gem-p...
It's not a competition, obviously - but it's absolutely bananas that GMTK Game Jam 2026 actually received more submissions than this year's Global Game Jam. That makes GMTK the biggest game jam in existence. (Maybe GGJ allowing AI-generated submissions put some devs off... who knows?)
New ponies on the horizon? Sounds magical 💗🌈 #mlp #mylittlepony #battlegemponies #mlpG6 #foreverfriendship
Last time I was at the store with my parents, we were looking at novelty socks and my mom picked these up and said quietly, "Undertale?"
New mechanics, equipment, maps, and a minigame are all playable in #BattleGemPonies Act1's Alpha in a more polished state than ever. This #pony game is shaping up real nice! #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart
Sorry to keep you waiting! DELTARUNE Chapter 5 will be released on June 24th at 11:00AM EDT. Here's the trailer if you missed it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5y2...
DELTARUNE – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026
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#BattleGemPonies is still in Alpha, but shaping up nicely thanks to all the help we've been getting from bug hunters and our programmer's nonstop technomancy spree. 🤖 Get the Summer Progress Report on Patreon! 📰 www.patreon.com/YotesMark/po... #gamedev #summergamesfest #indiegame
The Paragon Cartel wants that pony of yours. You'll end up getting into trouble right away in BGP Act 1. ("I JUST left the hometown lab, man!") #screenshotsaturday #battlegemponies #monstertaming #indiegame
Felt pretty clever making "Frost Bite" a move in this game. #BattleGemPonies #IndieGame #ScreenshotSaturday
[Alpha2 Backer Playtest is Now Available] | All Backers can get it on Itch! - Fixed some game breaking bugs and prettied things up a bit. - And there's an Android version this time. - Lots more to come in a few weeks! #BattleGemPonies
The player characters are looking so lively today thanks to some new animations! #BattleGemPonies #PixelArt #ScreenshotSaturday
This is what we're talking about when we say "we need time to polish"! ✨ We're at the stage where placeholders get gorgeous makeovers and the world starts to look and feel official. #pixelart #monstertaming #indiegame
It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.
I love these popcorn bucket Lumas too much! I got the orange one and my roommate got the green and a Yoshi 🥚🌟#MarioGalaxyMovie
A message for my fans in Latin America. (plain text is in the image alt-text if you need it for translation.)
Due to the excessive amount of bugs found in the latest build that took many years to create, we have henceforth decided to abandon the Battle Gem Ponies project in favor of starting a new clean-slate project featuring cybernetic bumblebees at war. 🐝
Someone wrote an article chronicling the development of my ponymon game #BattleGemPonies! 📰 Such a strange nostalgic feeling to see the past #gamedev decade summed up like this. totalapexentertainment.com/gaming/battl...
Battle Gem Ponies (BGP) Making Waves, Networking, And Building Community - Total Apex Entertainment
Looking over a decade of development as Tony Yotes aspired to make Battle Gem Ponies, a Pokémon meets My Little Pony game, a reality.
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Route Quartz is by far the laggiest map in the Unity editor. Some chunks of it refuse to load for a minute. Which is weird, since it's not even one of our biggest & busiest maps! We'll need to determine the verdict on how it runs on a variety of devices during the ongoing Alpha playtest right now.
2015 Overworld Dreams: This is the PowerPoint slide I made to hype myself up when dreaming about turning my little #BattleGemPonies fangame prototype into a fully explorable world. Looking back, I can confirm, the game has all those biomes in a playable state right now.
Can't believe I drew this Pokémon fangame map on graph paper in high school instead of paying attention in class... And now, over a decade later, it's the region for my indie game #BattleGemPonies with actual players running around on their own adventures!
Gather around, everyone! 💎 The #BattleGemPonies Act1 Alpha Playtest Build is LIVE on Itch! So if you're a Patreon member and a fan of playing early builds of games full of fun new places to explore (and bugs) then there's a new build with your name on it! 🌟
There's a developer debate over what color the decorative rim around the Crystal Stable interiors should be. Which color for the background border looks best? #monstertamer #gamedev #pixelart #feedback
Hope my game's trio lives up to the standards being set today. 🔥💧🌿 #BattleGemPonies #pokemon #pixelart #ocdesign #animation
