It’s now midnight of the 19th, so submissions to our OC contest are now CLOSED. Thanks so much to everyone who entered; turnout has been phenomenal. We’ll have results for you as soon as possible.
Thanks, everypony!
GIF Created by: WarpOut
Hey everypony, Equestrian Dreamers needs your assistance once again! That is why we have decided to recruit for another field character artist for the team to help WarpOut. So, check out all of the details you need to apply on the recruitment page at this link.
http://www.equestriandreamers.com/recruitment/visual-artists/
Recruitment will close on September 23rd at 12 AM PST! Please feel free to ask any questions as necessary. We will be happy to answer them as soon as we can. Good luck everypony and we look forward to your submissions!
All Credit for Nyx Goes to: Pen Stroke
Hey everypony! So, are you feeling that Town Square still is empty? Want to get involved in the project? Well, now is your chance! Today, we will give you the chance to have one of your OC’s (Original Character) be put into My Little Investigations! So, before I get this ball rolling, let’s lay down some ground rules for this contest.
1. Each entry must have a name, picture, and brief background description of the original character. By brief, I mean keep it under a couple of paragraphs. No novels please. The character must be a pony from either the earth, pegasi, or unicorn race. No alicorns or non-ponies allowed here since we want to keep the game as show accurate as possible.
1a. You may submit as many OC’s to us as you want. You may put multiple OC’s in your entry instead of making one for each one. However, rest assured that there will only be ONE winning OC per winner. And remember, quality will always beat out quantity. We want to see your best!
2. You will have one month to submit your entries from today. All entries will be accepted up till September 19th, 12 AM PST. We will select the best three entries from the list.
3. Absolutely NO grim-dark, rule 34, inappropriate/controversial (for example, using a religious symbol for a cutie mark) OC ponies will be considered.
4. You are certainly allowed to ponify any member of the team if you so wish. However, doing so will not gain you extra consideration. We will consider every entry equally.
5. If you are one of the three winners, you will be allowed to write a short joke (That WILL be voiced by our voice actors) involving the OC pony and Twilight. However, Equestrian Dreamers has the right to modify or write another joke if we find it necessary.
6. Post your entries to either the official topic on the forums at this link http://www.equestriandreamers.com/forum/index.php?topic=1111.0 or at this email contact@equestriandreamers.com.
Also, on another note, our panel from Everfree NW has been posted on YouTube. Click the link below and check it out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3iKFovD7Zk&feature=player_embedded
And that’s pretty much it! We look forward to seeing your entries very soon! Have fun and even if your OC character doesn’t make it in this time… it is likely we will continue doing these contests for future cases. Good luck everypony!
Our Livestream happened as planned earlier today – we had a pretty good turnout, getting (I believe) around 40-50 viewers at peak viewing time. In case you missed it and would like to check it out, here’s a recorded version of our antics:
Thanks to everyone who came out; it was a great time, and we’re happy that it looks to have been a success.
Hi all,
I’m happy to announce that this Sunday, August 12, we’ll be hosting a Livestream at 3 PM PDT, 6 PM EDT, 12 AM CET. Full details here:
Hope to see you there!
Hi all,
In honor of MLI now turning one year old, we’ve put together a little video in which we talk to our team about themselves, about MLI, and about working on the game:
Enjoy!
Hi all,
It’s with a bit of sadness that I have to announce that TehJadeh, our Scootaloo VA, has had to step down from that role, owing to insufficient time. However, don’t worry – we’re still full speed ahead; DivinexRose, our Rainbow Dash VA, has agreed to step up and fill that role, and we have no doubt that she’ll do as lovely a job as TehJadeh would’ve. And TehJadeh will still be filling her dialog character artist role that she does so well, so no worries about any impact there, either.
As a little preview, here are a few of the tracks that she’s done for us already:
We’d like to thank TehJadeh for the work she’s done for us already, and DivinexRose as well for taking on this role at such short notice! You two are both awesome.
Hi all! GabuEx here.
Haven’t seen you in a while. How have you been? We’ve been great.
Today is a bit of a special day for My Little Investigations, because the project has officially turned one year old. One year ago today, I created a new XNA project in Visual Studio for an idea that I had. Then, a few days later, I sent what I had created thus far to Equestria Daily, just since I figured I had nothing to lose. And, well, the rest has been history. This project has far surpassed all of my wildest expectations when I first started that XNA project, and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. It wouldn’t have gotten here without everypony’s love and support, so thank you to everyone for helping to get us this far. And it certainly wouldn’t have gotten here without the wonderful hard work of the team, either – so thank you to them as well, for everything they’ve already done on the project.
On that note, now seems as good a time to make another announcement regarding MLI!
You would’ve already seen this had you gone to the Everfree Northwest website, but I’d like to officially announce it here, as well: My Little Investigations will be appearing at Everfree Northwest! We had somewhat of a presence at BronyCon a few weeks ago, but this time around we’ll have a full hour-long panel, hosted by yours truly and ZeusAssassin, at which we’ll be talking about MLI and showing some never-before-seen gameplay from the first case. You can look forward to that when Everfree Northwest comes around on August 17-19!
Applications for the position of audio engineer are now closed.
And in tandem with this announcement, I’d also like to announce that we now have our audio engineer, as well. I’d like everyone to give a big, warm welcome to X-Trav. We look forward to working with him in order to bring you all the best audio experience you can get.
Thanks to all of our wonderful applicants! You all are great, whether or not you made it.
A while back, The Round Stable did a very nice, lengthy write-up on our case 1 demo. I’m happy to report that they also recently conducted an interview with us as well! That can be found here:
http://www.mlponies.com/2012/05/25/interview-my-little-investigations/
Anyone interested in a bit more insight into the origins of MLI, on the team, and on our thoughts on various matters should definitely go check it out.