So far Darkera Studios has been making excellent progress in their Rise of the Clockwork Stallions game (as can be seen if you've played their most recent demo), but they've hit a bit of a snag. You see, they need a voice actress for the fair lady Rarity, and they want one as soon as possible. If you think you can sound like Rarity and have a decent microphone, you can apply for the job by messaging ChurchCrusade on Skype.

 Also, it looks like Snowdrop is going to be a playable character. It somehow doesn't seem very in-character for her to be fighting robots and whatnot, but then again the same could be said about Fluttershy, eh?

 Most would agree that Donitz's classic Story of the Blanks is the best creepypasta fangame that this fandom has produced thus far, although a few prefer the Luna Game series for its side effects (changing the desktop background, playing creepy sounds, etc). The game's minimalist, authentic NES graphics left a lot to the player's imagination, and unlike most typical creepypastas it managed to be creepy without having to rely on jumpscares or gory imagery. However, some of us have secretly dreamed of a remake of this classic game, and a fairly unknown group of fans known as Long Tale Animation have decided to take it upon themselves to convert Story of the Blanks from a top-down retraux experience into a high-definition, sidescrolling adventure game.

 The teaser video itself doesn't show much gameplay, so there is a lot of room for speculation as to how the final product will turn out. Hopefully the remake doesn't stray too far from the original's roots: it should also be interesting to see how Donitz reacts to this game.

 The Brony fandom has a distinct lack of visual novels, aside from that My Little Dashie demo and its sibling, Welcome to Ponyville, which is fairly surprising given the amount of talented artists and writers we have lying around, and how quickly these games can be scripted in a good engine such as Ren'Py. Sensing this void, the Zap Apple Project team hopes to fill it with their upcoming visual novel titled Starswirl Academy, and it stars some unrevealed colt in high school who befriends humanized versions of the mane 6. In other words, this is your stereotypical visual novel about schoolgirls and romance, and like many of its peers has seperate SFW/NSFW versions. At least it had good art going for it: I'd say that it already looks quite professional despite being in such an early state. Oh yeah, and since the developers went with a modified version of Ren'Py instead of writing their own engine like Filly Gamez the game runs on Mac OS X and Linux, and an Android port of the game is also planned.

Feel like playing a visual novel while you wait? Then I would suggest that you give Juniper's Knot a try. It is fairly short and lacks ponies (even humanized ones), but then again it's not like ponies automatically make everything better, right?

 Last year's Megapony game was pretty good, but even veterans of the Megaman series claimed that the level design was too difficult. Is the same the case with Episode 2? Yes. As one of our commenters put it, Megapony was "Made for robots by robots. Maybe the final version should be for humans?". It's still quite enjoyable for those of you who are looking for a challenge, but if you are a more laid-back gamer I would advise playing something else (the Daring Do Demo that we just posted about, for example). We'll save our review for Episode 3, which will add the rest of the content that is missing from this release and should hopefully come out before that other Episode 3.

 Oh, and speaking of difficult games I'm going to be posting a review later on today of another entry to a fairly well-known series of pony platformers by Mark Sprague. It was supposed to be an April Fools game, but it turned into something bigger...

 Legal issues have sent many fangame developers into hiding after the demise of MLP:Online and Fighting is Magic, but a courageous few have gone onward with their projects, pouring their hearts and souls into their projects. In light of this, Equestria Gaming has decided to take a new approach to reviewing in which we will not criticize developers for the few mistakes that they make, but focus mainly on praising them for what they do wrong. Having good self-esteem is good after all, and we're going to be at the forefront of this bold new esteem-raising movement with our review of Lennyage of Harmoney, which you can find more about after the break.