Budding Friendships is a currently-in-progress Harvest Moon style game involving ponies. Assuming the role of a famer pony (I think that's actually the character pictured above), you take over a rundown ranch at the edge of the Everfree Forest, and through a lot of hard work and by forming lasting bonds of friendship with the ponies of Ponyville, turn it into something you can be proud of.
So far, the team of ponies in charge of this project have put together most of the underlying framework and core mechanics. Movement's possible, and time passes, as marked by a nifty little night-and-day wheel. You can see some screenshots after the break. They were even ambitious enough to set a tentative release date for a fully finished and super playable version, but I know enough about development cycles that I'm not going to shackle them to that. But if you're interested in commenting and following along more closely, check out their Canterlot forum thread here. Additionally, they are looking for a vector artist and a sprite artist to help out. If you're interested in providing these services, drop a line to [email protected]
36 comments:
Looks nice
ReplyDeleteLooks like it's coming along pretty well, I hope they're going to add an actual clock though.
ReplyDeleteoh, how I love harvest moon 83
ReplyDeletethis will be EPIC!
if this was a offical hasbro pony game ah'd die from so much joy!!! harvest moon+pony= <3<3<3
ReplyDeleteI might actually make it through a Harvest Moon game... This should be interesting.
ReplyDeleteHarvest moon "usually" has you get a husband/wife so will this one let you marry or just farm?
ReplyDelete@ Anon 12:13,
ReplyDeleteProbably going to have a friendship mechanic instead of a marriage one.
I dub this pony...Corn Pwn (hee!).
ReplyDeleteTime to go dig up my old harvest moon game.
ReplyDelete~Scratch
Yes, yes, an infinite times yes.
ReplyDeleteIs that the Iowa mascot pony?
ReplyDeleteHarvest Moon + Ponies = AWESOME
ReplyDeleteI love harvest moon !
ReplyDeleteThis is so great !
Uh ... and in harvest moon you can have a girlfriend, can't you ?
Just saying ...
Have I ever said how much I love this fandom?
ReplyDeleteI like Rune Factory better than HM, but this will do nicely. Ponies instead of humans in Rune Factory 3 would've been bitching.
ReplyDeleteThere are lot more pony styled games being made then I thought there were. I wonder if there's a group somewhere trying to make FO:E into a real game, after reading some of the FO:E stories, there are places I really want to visit. Also, this game looks like it's coming along pretty well, keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteI knew this would happen eventually.
ReplyDeleteand its awesome.
Okay, Ive really had enough pony farming. As a farmer (cue WTF, farmer brony? comments), It is simply appaling to see farms cartoonized in such ridiculous ways. Perhaps i'm being too hard on this issue. Cue flame war.
ReplyDeleteThe Mane Six should be viable marriage options for the male mane lead.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 1:21 PM
ReplyDeleteHad there really been that many pony farming? I mean, I'm not up to date with all the fan creations, but surely there couldn't be that many.
I understand that seeing your job bastardized is appalling, but this game is based on Harvest Moon and that game really isn't that accurate on farming subjects. As such, they have no choice but to be as unrealistic as Harvest Moon.
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteno man, i totally see where you're coming from. video games based on farming trivialize the hard work people such as yourself put in everyday! same goes for all war games insulting our troops, all sports games insulting athletes, and all racing games insulting people who operate motor vehicles! RABBLE RABBLE
Harvest Moon and Rune Factory... both were fun and hopefully this will be fun too. "Harvest Luna" os the title maybe?
ReplyDeleteDon't think I've ever played Harvest Moon, but I know the game. I'm liking the little time wheel down there too, nifty-looking. It's not looking too shabby so far. So many fun pony games being worked on.
ReplyDeleteI love these people forever.
ReplyDeleteOoh i love harvest moon! i had loads of fun with harvest moon ds, that was until after all my hard work turned into nothing when i found out the save was corrupted T.T (all three of them!)
ReplyDeleteHoly shit... An MLP:FiM game modeled after Harvest Moon and Rune Factory... I just know this is going to be SOOOOOOOOO AWESOME!!!! /)^ɛ^(\
ReplyDeleteHarvest Moon 64 is one of the best games ever, this is awesome!
ReplyDeleteHi everyone, Khosan here (AKA Designer guy/the brain that spawned a team of people putting work into it). Thought I'd answer some of the questions I've seen pop up in here:
ReplyDelete1) Yes, there will be an actual clock in the inventory screen. The basic in-game UI is mostly just an 'at a glance' thing, not many specifics, but you can tell what it means by looking at it.
2) Ponyships are something we've talked about and, while we can understand that a lot of people would be interested in them, we're not going to go that route. What we're doing instead is, yes, what that other Anon said: a friendship system. You start out as an acquaintance and eventually become friends with the mane 6 like they're friends with each other.
I know for some of you, that might be a buzzkill, but I hope you'll still be willing to give it a shot when we finish.
3) Pony-farming: Well, sorry? I guess? The goal's not really to create a hardcore realistic farm sim.
P.S. I'm glad to hear people like the Day/Night wheel. I've still got a little work to do on it (I need to tweak the size and position of the sun and moon so they don't clip with the edge) and I'll be making a couple more that change based on the weather.
I can still tell that whatever you decide to do with this game, however you decide to develop it, it will be awesome. I'd love to give this game a try when it finally gets released.
ReplyDeleteOh man, I love Harvest Moon so much, and to have to combined with ponies? SO AWESOME.
ReplyDeleteWill definitely want to see more where this came from!
You know, I hate to say it, but with the tight brony community and all of these game projects, it feels like all of the ponies out there developing games should come together to work on a single project as opposed to having so many projects that need more people. It just seems like a talent exchange could be beneficial here.
ReplyDeleteOoohh... I remember Harvest Moon on the Super Nintendo :)
ReplyDeleteNice 'ol memories of 'back in the days' ;)
I wonder if the 'girls' are gonna be the main cast ?
Pleaase tell me you can get married and have little fillies :333
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ReplyDeleteI want to play but there is no download link
ReplyDeleteno marriage? meh total buzzkill....don't wanna play it now
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