Lockdown 2020: Them's Fighting Herds

Was not expecting this to exist. Looks as good as I hoped, I only wish I still had fighting game friends (online isn't the same and local groups are too competitive).

I think whoever did the soundtrack for this ought to maybe do an ep or something. Sounds desert rock, early psch/ stoner.

Wow.

Ha just learned this game is finally coming out of early access today. Thanks for the video Jason, I'm curious as to how that Story Mode pans out.

I was pleasantly surprised to see this being streamed. I'm glad you gave it a shot.

Edit: You mentioned that an artist from My Little Pony helped out with the art - it was actually the creator of Friendship is Magic who designed new characters for them and helped with the art and story for the game. She had felt bad that they spent so much time on the game only for it to be shut down.

Just gotta say that I really appreciate recording setup. Lighting and room are pretty on point

I can still claim this from Humble Choice I think. Dare I try to embrace my inner Brony?

I'm so happy Mane6 has made it to 1.0 and this is getting the attention it deserves. The team has taken a lot of smart steps in the last year to improve community interaction, buff up the in-game tutorials (as you've seen... Jason totally nailing those early combos) and to help organise streams/tournaments for play.

I still clearly remember the live streams of this during the Indiegogo push... hearing that bangin' Training Stage Theme on loop while watching Mane6 tweak the alpha pretty much sold me on it. :P

And yeah: the game has had quite the colourful development history, with contributions coming in from all over the MLP fanbase and the fighting game community following the Hasbro C&D and its change from Fighting is Magic. Lab Zero Games, developers of Skullgirls and Indivisible, lent their Z-Engine to Mane6; initial MLP Gen 4 lead Lauren Faust handled the character design duties for the game, and also contributed a "lore bible" to lay out the world-building; and Craig McCracken (Lauren's partner and creator of The Powerpuff Girls, among others) even suggested the title of the game itself.

Anyway, I'm not fantastic at four-button fighters, but this has still been a lot of fun even in its early access builds. There's only six characters here at the moment, but each feels really different and there's a ton of combo complexity under the hood... and that's without getting into the supposed L3 supers. There's also a seventh character on the way, too. The pixel lobby stuff and the story mode (which I haven't even tried) is just icing on the cake.

Thanks for showing this off, @unastrike!

This has goood music.