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Piano Hero DEMO level now available

You can DOWNLOAD IT right here on our brand new web-site

And here is a little bonus, soundtrack from this level.

It’s been a while. A year, if we want to be accurate. It has been a hard year for many of us, who are working at the Raycord project. Some of us went through some life-changing events, some have taken up a new job, some just went through a series of obstacles and some have lost their close relatives… It seems like a whole life has passed by. What about our project? Strangely enough it has survived.

So, in a few words: THE PROJECT IS ALIVE.

But while it is alive, it has undergone miserable changes for the past year, not to mention that we’re unsure even about its basic concept. In fact, we don’t know if we’re going to hold onto the MLP universe or just straight make up something of our own, inspired by the original series. It’s not like we had a lot in common to begin with, besides our characters… And the main fight still goes on with the coding, more than with anything else. What we want more than anything else is to make a QUALITY platformer, smooth and comfortable in controls, which turns out to be a hard thing to do. Especially if you barely have any time to spare on it.

To be really honest with you, a few times we thought about closing our project for good. We’re still thinking about that. To be honest, we were going to just close it today and straight up publish all that we’ve done on the game up until now. But, while we are making at least some progress, we decided to go on. After all - it is simple to give up, but to fight on is where the real challenge is.

So, to sum up - is the project closed? Not yet. Will you see some progress on it soon? Don’t know. How long we’re going to keep developing? No idea. Is there a possibility that we’ll close up the project before finishing? Yes.

But for now the fight goes on. And in our time, spare from work, stresses, disasters and other things that make our lives exciting, we’re going to keep working on the project. No promises though. Anyway, thanks for everyone who still follows us and patiently waits! I hope that we’ll be able to publish some good news and next time it will be sooner than a year!

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Care for some grapes?

This is one test that we did to see if our new renditions would look Disneyesque enough. Spi even went so far as to reproduce a bg from Fantasia with some twists. What do you think? would it pass for a neo-classical animation cell?

FINALLY! we figured how to enable comments, speak your mind if you wish!

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Even though Discord is mirrored here, it steel looks beautiful! We need more classic Disney style this days!

By the way, sincerely recommend to follow this duo. After all, they're responsible for Baby Discord character, which inspired us for animation... ish thing (actually more of an animatic) on "Friend Like Me" from Alladin. Not to mention that they did their own professional animation with Baby Discord as well. It would be great to see more of their animation... Who knows, maybe they'll do another short about little Discord someday? There's only one way to find this out for yourselves ;)

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Me: Hey KP! we have a new blog. We could use a slight signal boost, do you think you can reblog a post or something?

KP: Bribe me! :3

Me: Ok.. what do you want?

KP: You know me already

Me: A wet mane Discord?

KP: That sounds about right

Me: You shall have it KP, you shall have it…

There you go! One of the Discord versions we were going to use for Heaven’s Light after KP made a requirement.

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Our animator really laid his eye upon the design of Paprika the Alpaca created by Lauren Faust and tried to imagine one of her light attacks. But things got out of hand pretty quickly and he ended up with this.

For those of you unaware - Paprika is a character from an upcoming game Them’s Fightin’ Herds. It is being crowdfunded at the moment and hopefully they’ll collect enough money for it! If you wish to learn more,

CHECK OUT THE LINK!

These guys do an amazing job and are a real inspiration for us, so go and support them! If they succeed, that just might inspire us even more and give a drastic boost to our own game development ;)

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So, we are finally posting this - footage of “Floor is Lava” PvP mode that we already brought to every convention that we’ve been on. It’s not like we became mega proud of this unpolished mini-game all of a sudden, but we thought it would be nice to give a tip of the hat to our composer Arvianth who wrote a beautiful soundtrack for this level.

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Art: Etoya; Poetry: InvisiblePony; Correction and StoryBoard: Lors

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At last

We know that you’ve been waiting for this. All these past weeks we repeated to ourselves: “stop looking for excuses, get to work, no one needs your meaningless updates, show people the real thing”. And the time has come to show the real thing. In the link below you’ll find a demo, which was in development for almost 2 months. We swear on everything that’s holy that it is neither rickroll, nor screamer. That’s a real, working demo of the game. We hope you’ll understand it’s complex gameplay and beat it. For every win you’re going to get unique rewards!

I hope that this demo will bring you lots of fun, just as much as it has already brought us! Follow this link for the game

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Talking about musicians

Hello, dear friends! Already tired of waiting for more information on our game which doesn’t have anything to do with the actual game? But of course you are!

That’s why today we’re going to talk about our soundtrack. It is currently composed by two people - Arvianth and Kirya. While the former might not be very well known in fandom, the latter is a part of Kirya and Lenich duo, which composed quite a few instrumentals for Friendship is Witchcraft, namely Gypsy Bard and Pinkie’s Brew Jazz Cover.

Considering those guys are really awesome and help us just because they’re total bros, we decided to give them a little bit of spotlight and repost one of their latest pieces here. Listen and enjoy! And follow of course!

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So, we hope you liked the little event we had.

For what we know, some of you might be upset (and some already are) with such an abrupt ending and the fact that it wasn't a blog resurrection.

We're sorry if we brought you some false hopes - we only wanted to remind you about good times we had together on our blog 3 year anniversary. We had it good and loved every moment of it, but it is a time to move on.

Our blog is officially closed and our comic "Accidentally" is still on hiatus, probably until we finish Raycord Legends. Sadly, we have only so much free time to spend on our projects - some of us are still studying, some of us have to make a living somehow. However, we will do our best to finish what we've started and make it good. Your honest support and positive feedback makes up for all our hard work. This is a thing that can't be bought for any money.

Thank you for sticking with us!

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