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This is perhaps the most asked question we receive, and we’d like to share the answer right on the front of our website. The answer is we don’t know yet. You may ask why, and the answer to that would be because this game is developed as a hobby project by a small team of devs, and though we do work very hard – it is virtually impossible to choose a release date. We do have a plan for what years we plan to release certain builds that we try to work towards, but this is basically a “done when it’s done” type of deal. However, we will continue to keep you posted on the game’s development, about what milestones we’ve reached and show off new implementations in videos, but we are currently in the pre-alpha phase (which is very early development), so a public alpha build won’t be available for a while. We are getting relatively close though to a playable build, but keep in mind that this first playable build may not have ponies or live simulation implemented yet – but you will be able to build cool homes and play with various architectural features! The build that would soon follow after that is most likely going to have playable ponies in it, but as that would still be early in development, not a whole lot of live simulation features would be implemented, only the basic ones. Nevertheless, we at The Ponies Team know are all eager to play this, and so are we! And we promise to keep notifying you of new project milestones, changes, and more. Thank you for all your support thus far!

The planned build/buy demo may be delayed until Fall, but we will keep you posted about it when anything changes. Some questions have been raised about why there’ll be an absence of ponies in this first build of the game. The reason is because we’re focusing on the framework of the game, and don’t want to rush ponies into it and make the game unstable. We want to bring a game of quality, even in the early alpha and beta builds, and we want to make sure that we don’t squeeze anything in when the important foundations are missing. Also, there have been questions about the lack of recruiting lately. This is due to enough people needed already working on the pre-alpha builds. However, we most certainly will recruit more people in the future, possibly the coming months even.

Hello everypony! We’re excited to announce that everything is going well, and we’re making lots of progress like usual. We are planning to release a pre-alpha demo build, simply titled the “Build and Buy Demo”, as we don’t have ponies implemented yet, this August. This build will allow you to create houses (basic ones anyways), and you’ll be able to play around with the tools in those two game modes. Please remember that plan could always change, as this is a hobby project and the developer’s schedules frequently change so this has a small chance of releasing later or earlier than the planned date. We hope you’ll stick around to see more news updates on this project, and if you have any questions or want to interact with the developers, you can either contact us or drop by our Discord server.

Wall tools, music, and data files are just some of the stuff we’ve been working on this month. Speaking of music, we’ll soon be sharing some of our soundtrack with you; including the theme song, some buy and build tracks, and a create a pony track. We also plan to share a progress update video on our YouTube channel showing off more of the in-game buy mode, along with the progress of the floor placement tool. As always, we’ll keep you posted!