So far, they have only released footage showing how Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack play. The last main character, Rainbow Dash, is still under development. The team has released early pre-alpha gameplay footage that displays basic game mechanics such as launches, juggles and hyper combos as seen in existing fighting game franchises such as Marvel vs. The game uses the Fighter Maker game engine. When another, Nappy, saw those images, he became determined to make them a reality, and in summer of 2011, the team, which at the time, consisted not only of Nappy and Anukan, but also of Jay Wright, Lucas Ellinghaus, James Workman, and Prominence, met on Skype for the first time. Like her origin story, but with a big boom at the end.The game originally began when a Mane6 team member, Anukan made mock-up screens under the title of "Marevel vs Clopcom" and posted them to a Ponychan board discussing fighting ponies. Rarity wraps the opponent up in fabric, magics it into a beautiful but constricting dress, then yells "Stupid Rock!" and drops the Rock on them.Twilight: Ummm… basically, she goes into the Avatar State and obliterates everything on the screen. Probably accompanied by some sort of musical number.Rainbow Dash: I envision something akin to Tager's "King of Tager" finisher from BlazBlue - Dash flies the opponent way up in the air, executes a rainboom on the way down, and crashes them into the ground.Rarity: "Art of the Dress", naturally. Hanging off the health bars, beating people with the super bar, you get the idea.
Need I say more? Big Mac delivers the finishing blow.Pinkie Pie: "Breaking the Fourth Wall". At the end she turns her back to the screen, and her gi has the kanji for "Apple" on it.Fluttershy's FlutterRage attack: She yells "COME OUT!" The opponent is stampeded by animals, followed by "You're going to LOVE ME!" and Fluttershy stomping the crap out of them.Applejack: Apple Family Reunion. Afer all, it's "My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic", not "Loads of fighting with a pony stuffed here and AnonymousThat would be Pinkamina's super attack.My brother and I were discussing this yesterday…Apple Bloom needs a version of Shun Goku Satsu where she changes into her karate gi and beats the stuffing out of the target. We're not doing crossovers with other shows or franchises. We can't tell you who else is in the roster yet -we don't want to spoil the surprise!- but we can tell you: They are all from MLP. Take in mind the screenshots are early alpha releases.-A note in general. How's your eye healing, btw?, Hope I didn't go too hard on MaxWe're seriously hoping it's not "the worst game ever LandonWe're doing Pallet Swaps. Your faithful student Twilight Sparkle.p.s. Today I learned a valuable lesson.Sometimes, your friends may be too stubborn, but you can always beat some sense and friendship into them. It was originally considered, but discarded due to better options TDTwix"Dear Princess Celestia. We're aiming to make the real deal at least 20% cooler.""is the person using the mugen engine?"We're not, actually. But those were from the Modded Screenshot Batch that kick-started the project. Would be great to work with Hyperion"stages was inside AJ barn and outside of the townhallthat was a other person game."Nope. This one is the real RainbowCrash88If you want to help, check out the Thread at Ponychan and drop us a message there. Although those were just modded screenshots from the series. The idea for the project came out from there.