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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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...

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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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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

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...

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Game Maker's Toolkit @gamemakerstoolkit.com · 26/07/2026

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?)

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

(Game's still in development btw, coming to Steam in 2027)

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 24/06/2026

Deltarune Chapter 5 came out IDK if you saw

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Made the first image for funsies, but kinda felt like something was missing... What do you think? #mlp #mylittlepony #battlegemponies #mlpG6 #foreverfriendship

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Still alive! And still chipping away at this ponymon RPG. Fleshing out battle mechanics and game feel to make the early parts feel SUPER high quality right now.

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 22/06/2026

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?"

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

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

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Cocoa Roulette @cocoaroulette.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

We'll be there no matter what

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 09/06/2026

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...

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DELTARUNE – Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026

YouTube video by Nintendo of America

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

#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

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

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

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Felt pretty clever making "Frost Bite" a move in this game. #BattleGemPonies #IndieGame #ScreenshotSaturday

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

[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

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

The player characters are looking so lively today thanks to some new animations! #BattleGemPonies #PixelArt #ScreenshotSaturday

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

This single stadium building took 3 days to make. The mission was "a landmark you could see from space!" It was the hardest building to draw by far and took many different drafts. (Then came dressing up the tiled areas around it.)

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

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

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Customize these options to your heart's content! We're always listening for feedback and will keep adding features that make the game more comfy and convenient to play. #gamedev #indierpg (There's already at least 4 more of these that weren't around when the game first launched.)

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

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.

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Friends flew out to see this together and the Peach Oreo cookies one brought were magnificent.

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I love these popcorn bucket Lumas too much! I got the orange one and my roommate got the green and a Yoshi 🥚🌟#MarioGalaxyMovie

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

The programming team says Unreal looks promising and is the industry standard for a reason. But Godot looks like the best fit for any future simple 2D games. On the Alpha Playtest side, we've narrowed the list of bugs down to the last 30ish tricky ones which should be fixed in about a couple weeks

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

We also cleaned out the bug backlog and combined the issues that were coming from the same place. Then spent weeks fixing them while actively researching & testing other game engines to hopefully avoid such problems and frustrating limitations on our end in future games.

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

[APRIL FOOLS!!] But for real tho, the Alpha playtest is going great! On the dev side of things we switched from ClickUp to Trello and trimmed off a bunch of unnecessary fluff from the development timeline so we can ensure Act 3 is actually finished in 2026.

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 29/03/2026

A message for my fans in Latin America. (plain text is in the image alt-text if you need it for translation.)

Recently, Fangamer asked me to make a post in Japanese regarding the translation of OFF.
Well...in the responses to that post, I noticed some frustration from Latin American fans. Let
me address a few of those issues now.

1. There is an officially licensed UNDERTALE concert series that unfortunately has no shows
planned in Latin America. I did retweet its schedule on request, but I have hardly any
involvement with the concert series and no input on where they perform. But, the organizers have heard the enthusiasm from Latin America, and I personally think it would be great to
have performances there. I hope it works out!

2. Fangamer’s shipping costs to Latin America are prohibitively expensive. As just one of
Fangamer’s clients, I am aware of this problem and I’ve asked them about possible solutions
before. I think it would be amazing if they could find affordable shipping to Latin America (and
other affected regions), but they have expressed that it’s a huge logistical hurdle. The other
shipping methods they’ve tried had a lost package rate of over 50%…

Still, I think Fangamer is interested in finding solutions, so I hope that we can figure out some way to get affordable merch to Latin American fans. Fangamer is very easy to work with and
truly passionate about the things they make. I really trust them and would prefer to collaborate
exclusively with them on merch.

3. Unfortunately, there are no translations for UNDERTALE into other languages besides
Japanese. That includes Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, but also every other language –
Chinese, Korean, Russian, French, German, Italian, and more.

I know it sucks that there are no other official translations for UNDERTALE. But I want to
make it clear that this isn’t because I have a grudge against other countries. It’s because, if I
release something official, I want it to match my vision. I was only able to do this for the
Japanese version because I know Japanese myself, and I worked very closely with our
brilliant translator to thoroughly check the text. I am not against official translations for other languages if we could make it work the same way… In the past I have looked into various options with my publisher, 8-4, but nothing has come of that yet. Maybe I should try a different approach.

I’m very happy that there are unofficial translations on PC. Considering I don’t understand
other languages, letting fans interpret the game without the burden of being “officially” perfect is amazingly helpful.

As for DELTARUNE, it’s just not feasible from a development standpoint to support other
languages right now, since it would make the game take longer to come out...
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I’m honored to have many fans across the world, and of course that means Latin America too.
I don’t want anyone to feel left out. I’m sorry if my silence made me seem like I was ignoring
anyone.

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

We'll be utilizing the code stability of the Unreal Engine so that we never have to experience a backlog of 400+ errors again.⚙️ Thank you for your support and understanding. 💜

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

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. 🐝

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This editor did some deep research, summing up the decade long development story (with details even I was beginning to forget!)

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Liking the cozy couple interiors of the area too.

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

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.

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Got a lot of mileage out of it in a school presentation and a game development convention panel as well.

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

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.

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Thanks Alpha Testers! So crazy to finally be exploring the world I dreamed up as a child. MY "Pokémon" region. ♡🗺️♡

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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!

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

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! 🌟

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Turns out at some point during tons of copy/pasting updated assets into Unity, there was an unnoticed Paste where a Copy should have been, and this threw the entire project into chaos at 2am after a day long crunch trying to get a stable playable build for the next morning. ✂️📋

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

#Unity2D Tilemap Sheet importer issues hit different at the end of a long day of debugging. The problem was fixed days ago, but I just wanted to share the photo from our developer Discord posted that night. 😂 Oh, the daily woes of #gamedev.

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Feedback Polling Day End Results 📊: A) White - 33 🥇 B) Pink - 17 🥈 C) Fuchsia - 15 🥉 D) Magenta - 8 🗑 Looks like we're sticking with the original White borders after all! 🔳

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YotesMark @yotesmark.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

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

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