The game mechanics proposed for the title were similar to those used in Street Fighter, with each character featuring a unique move set based on their personality in the show for example, Twilight Sparkle’s attacks focused on books while Fluttershy’s attacks focused on animals.
On May 31st, 2011, an official thread for the game was started on the Ponychan /collab/ (Collaborative Projects) board, which announced its goal to develop 17 total playable characters as well as online play. Development of the game began in the spring of 2011, in the time between the first and second seasons of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, after one of the lead developers Anukan uploaded four mock screenshots for a Street Fighter-style fighting game featuring several MLP characters to the now-defunct image-sharing site Ponibooru.Īfter the screenshots made their way to the MLP-specific image board Ponychan, a user known as Nappy contacted Anukan about actualizing the project, and soon four other community members, Jay Wright, Lucas Ellinghaus, James Workman and Prominence, were on board.
