My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (video game)
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| Developer(s) | Gameloft |
| Publisher(s) | Gameloft |
| Distributor(s) | Vivendi (2015–present) |
| Designer(s) | Gameloft |
| Platform(s) | iOS, Android, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Phone |
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| Genre(s) | City-building simulation, Open world |
| Mode(s) | Single-player with multiplayer interaction |
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic is a mobile video game based on the animated television show of the same name, developed by Gameloft for iOS and Android devices. The game was released on November 8, 2012.
In the game, the player is asked to help Twilight Sparkle rebuild her home of Ponyville after it fell into the shadow of the villainous Nightmare Moon. To do so, the player uses in-game currency and other collected treasures to build homes to bring more ponies to the town, and then create businesses for them to work to generate money. Mini-games are used to build the skill level of each pony, qualifying them to work at jobs that can generate more revenue. Though primarily a single-player game, players can visit their friends' versions of Ponyville, and leave and accept gifts to help their own village. The game is guided by a quest and experience system. While Gameloft developed the game towards the show's target audience of young girls, they include nods to the adult fandom of the show.
The game was generally well-received as a typical city-building game with high production values, but was criticized as exemplifying the underlying nature of freemium games, where either the player must spend real money or wait an indefinite period of time to advance the game.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic's story starts after the villainous Nightmare Moon has cast a dark shadow over Ponyville, emptying it of its inhabitants and buildings. Twilight Sparkle and her assistant Spike want to reconstruct Ponyville, particularly bringing back the other bearers of the Elements of Harmony - Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity - to help defeat Nightmare Moon.
To do so, the player helps Twilight Sparkle by constructing homes for her pony friends through purchasing them within the game's internal store. Once these ponies have arrived, the player can then build businesses and assign ponies to work there. Each business takes a fixed amount of real time to generate its product, which then can be collected by the player. This awards the player "bits" (in-game currency), experience points, and other treasures used for purchasing items later in the game; these include shards representing the Elements of Harmony, which are necessary to draw in Twilight Sparkle's five friends and defeat Nightmare Moon. Businesses can produce one of two items, though the second requires a second pony to be hired to work there as well. Each pony character has a zero- to five-star rating, representing a skill level. Certain business may require minimum skill levels. The skill level of a pony can be increased over time by participating in a mini-game with the pony, such as catching falling apples or bouncing a ball continuously.
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