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MareQuest! A profound experience including Mare customization, procedurally generated mares, rng mare dialogue, and accurate mare friendship simulation! What more could you possibly want?

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Alpha: 0.1.0 (Full Steam Ahead)

Last Updated 01-DEC-2022 @0000CST

INFORMATION: https://ponepaste.org/7461

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FOR NEW UPDATES OLD SAVE FILES WILL NEED TO BE DELETED

ON THE MAIN MENU PLAYING OLD SAVE FILES WILL MOST LIKELY

RESULT IN BUGS AND A BAD TIME

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Friends

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MareQuest is all about... MARE FRIENDS! Friends with funny names, silly dialogue, loose nonsensicle personalities, and cute cute cuteness!

Ways to make mare friends

-Complete quests

-Give sad mares red apples, green apples, or sugarcubes

-Gift mares the food that corresponds with their personality

-Each mare has a favorite food she'll talk about, giving her this will result in her trading food with you

-Lead lost mares out of caves

-Become an alicorn and befriend admirers

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Controls

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Scheme A:

Arrow Keys - Movement

W/Mouse Wheel - Raise Stance [e.g. Stand/Fly]

S/Mouse Wheel - Lower Stance [e.g. Sit/Sleep]

Scheme B:

WASD - Movement

E/Mouse Wheel - Raise Stance [e.g. Stand/Fly]

Q/Mouse Wheel - Lower Stance [e.g. Sit/Sleep]

Shared:

Shift - Sprint / Kick trees(Earth Mares Only)

Spacebar/Left Mouse - Interact

1 - Eat Red Apple

Heal HP

2 - Eat Green Apple

Raises Max Stamina

3 - Eat Sugarcube

Temporary Speed Boost

M - Mute/Unmute Music

Requires Radio Unlocked

N - Next Music Track

Requires Radio Unlocked

Tab/P/Esc - Open Food Inventory/Gift Mare food hotkey

Esc - Restart Game

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Save Game and B

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Island Hub

Enter portal to the Island Hub to instantly save game

-All mares friended appear on islands

-Islands build up with friend count

-1st mare - Green Island

-2nd mare - Yellow Island

-3rd mare - Blue Island

-4th mare - Red Island

Biomes from North to South

-Far North: No mares spawn, shadow horsies always spawn

-Snow

-Grass

-Desert

-Far South: No mares spawn, shadow horsies always spawn

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Character Base Traits

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Unicorn Mares: Auto shoot spells at enemies

Earth Mares: More health and stamina / Can kick trees for wood and build in overworld

Pegasus Mares: Fastest characters. No structure collision when flying

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Items

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Red Apples: Replenishes 5 health (not upgraded) and some stamina

Green Apples: Permanently raises stamina as well as restores some stamina

Sugarcubes: Move faster for a limited time

Witch Hat: If worn and mare HP hits 0 adds 50% max HP and hat destroyed

Explorer Hat: Speed boost when worn, 1 enemy hit destroys hat

Pickelhaube: Saves mare from 5 damage before being destroyed

Food: 30 food options for trading with mares based on personality type

-Pink: Cake, Ice Cream, Candy, Cupcakes, Kumquats

-Purple: Grass, Oats, Pumpkin Spiced Latte, Breadfruit, Avacado Toast

-Blue: Energy Drinks, Fries, Potato Chips, Protein Shakes, Rainbow Colored Slushies

-Yellow: Biscuits, Arugula, Carrots, Gingerbread Cookies, Herbal Tea

-White: Broiled Asparagus, Rattatouille, Caviar, Eggplant Parmasean, Omelette du Fromage

-Orange: Apple Pie, Hay, Peaches, Watermelon, Burgers

Buildable

Earth Mares can build the following by pressing the hammer within GUI

-Red Apple Tree - costs 1 Red Apple

-Green Apple Tree - costs 1 Green Apple

-Sugarcane plant - costs 1 sugarcube

-Torch - costs 2 wood

-Apple Turret - costs 10 wood

-Click turret to load with apple seeds

-If loaded automatically fires at enemies

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Quests

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-Main Quest - The 4 Alicorns

-Reach 40 friends to become alicorn

-Reach 80 friends to choose 1 of 4 alicorn perks

-Reach 100 friends to play as your 1st friend

-Repeat until all 4 alicorns are created and reach 100 friends

-Hordecore Minigame

-In furthest South Biome speak to Chaos Witch Ponkles (must have 1 friend)

-Give her requested apples and be teleported to a strange place

-Dodge the horse and survive to 100 seconds

-Both winning an 0HP will trigger quest completion

-Friend rewards

-Shadow Horsie Maze Minigame

-In furthest North Biome speak to Wicked Witch Limeade (must have 1 friend)

-Sacrifice friend to be teleported to shadow realm

-Sacrificing friend with only 1 friend count will cause game over

-Find the light exit in the shadow maze

-Help lost mares along the way

-Poni Poni Dance Club Minigame

-In Snow or Grass Biome find a Poni Poni Dance Club

-Wait until night to enter

-Hold space and hit the arrow keys (DDR style)

-Upon reaching goal you will be promped to choose reward

-Cuddle Minigame

-In Grass Biome speak to Anonymous Green Mare (must have 1 friend)

-Protect her from approaching mares by cuddling (sleeping) on them

-Green will allow 3 mares to approach her before minigame game over

-Upon lasting to 100% recieve ability to cuddle mares on the Hub islands for food rewards

-Marester Mind Minigame

-In Snow biome find a Radio Tower and speak to Anonymous Pink mare inside (must have 1 friend)

-Guess the correct color combination

-6 guesses, no duplicate colors, guiding "lights" do not match the color position

-Guessing correctly unlocks the radio in inventory and gives food rewards

-Hat Filly Minigame

-In Grass or Desert biome find cave with a sign that says "hats" outside

-Upon entering use the arrow/WASD keys to match the filly's movements

-Upon 8 correct combos you will unlock hats to spawn in world

-Egg Mare Minigame

-As a unicorn or earth mare (no pegasus or alicorn) find the Anonymous Egg Mare in desert biome

-Shoot eggs at approaching pegasus to defend the 15 apples

-Upon time running out you will recieve food rewards and as many friends as apples remaining

-Mare Gaming Minigame

-In the desert biome find a house and speak to Quote Unquote inside

-Text based RPG minigame, follow dialogue options to progress

-5 enemies defeated will trigger boss battle option

-Defeat boss to win and recieve friendship rewards

-Caves

-In all biomes Caves can spawn

-Entering and leaving a cave will block that cave off from being reentered

-3 chests containing food always spawn in cave

-Lost mares appear in cave, speak to them and accept to help them, lead them to entrance for friend reward

-Interacting with crystal in cave will remove darkness, automatic for Crystal Alicorn

-Snakes and bats spawn in cave and attack player if too close

-Caves get progressively larger tied to friend count

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Level ups and Perks

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Earth Mares:

EM1 = +5 Total Health / Red Apples Heal for +10

EM2 = Applekick (Kick an apple at enemies (-1 Red/Green Apple) Can be toggled.

Pegasus:

PG1 = +1 Fly Speed

PG2 = Cloud Attack - When flying create clouds that makes shadow horsies walk and pegasus shadow horsies run (costs 25 stamina) Can be toggled.

Unicorn:

UC1 = x2 Magic Attack Power

UC2 = Rechargeable Shield (costs Sugarcube to recharge if destroyed) Can be toggled.

10 Friends = Choose 1 Perk (Race Specific)

25 Friends = Choose 1 Perk (Race Specific)

40 Friends = Alicornhood! Choose 1 Perk (any race) + All item pickups x2

60 Friends = Choose 1 Perk (any race)

80 Friends = Choose Alicorn Specialty:

1) Sun Alicorn = Sunlight spell to intermittently destroy all spawned enemies. Can be toggled.

2) Moon Alicorn = Creates intermittent portal to moon to collect resources and wait out nighttime. Can be toggled.

3) Crystal Alicorn = All item pickups x3 / Pickups move towards you

4) Friendship Alicorn = Shoots spell that befriends shadow horsies

100 Friends = Faithful student - Become your first friend!

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Enemies

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Earth Shadow Horsies - Walk initially, run and get stronger as friend count increases

Unicorn Shadow Horsies - Stand still and fire spells at player

Pegasus Shadow Horsies - Run if player isn't flying, fly faster than player if player is

Snakes - Moves towards player at constant speed if in range

Bats - Fly in straight line towards last player position

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Links

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Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2184130/MareQuest/

NG: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/842043

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ElectroKaplosionMusic/videos

Bandcamp: https://electrokaplosion.bandcamp.com/album/marequest-ost

Twitter: https://twitter.com/EKaplosion

Discord https://discord.gg/hueYuTRf6z

PonePaste: https://ponepaste.org/7461

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Credits

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Character sprites by Urimas: DeviantArt

Other art by ElectroKaplosion

3 track OST by ElectroKaplosion

Programming by ElectroKaplosion

Promo art (Mare Rave Update): Shydale

Splash Screen Art: Ritzy Road

Mare Hug Game Over Art: Anonymous Friend

A special thanks to friends who helped test:

Ritzy Road, Pinkanon, Hrfilly, Snowpon, Morning Frost, Limeade, ctanon, ,brownie, xzar (anyone i may have missed)