Mane6 Returns With "Them's Fightin' Herds"

It was two years ago when the My Little Pony craze was in full-swing and bronies ruled the internet, when a group of developers came together to create a high-quality fighting game starring their favorite children’s cartoon characters. They called themselves Mane6, and although their product looked amazing and even had the support of Lab 0, who let them use their engine as a stretch goal for their IndieGoGo campaign to "keep Skullgirls running," alas, it could not last--Hasbro didn’t want their intellectual property associated with violence, and the product just looked so damn good it would have been very easy to confuse it for an official My Little Pony Project. It was promptly shut down, and that was the last we heard of Mane6.

Except there was one person working for Hasbro who was impressed with their work. And lucky for Mane6, it was the one person who mattered--Lauren Faust, the creator of Friendship is Magic and the whole reason the show ever became as popular as it was. She contacted Mane6 with an offer to join their team and give them a whole new setting and brand-new characters to fight in their game instead of the My Little Pony team. They accepted, announced they were working on a new game, and…

...nothing. That was it. For about two years the Mane6 team dropped off the face of the earth and it was anyone’s guess what they were up too. Turns out, after such a long silence, the answer wasn’t “nothing”--they were actually working on the game. What’s more, they announced just yesterday that they’re going to start an IndieGoGo Campaign for their new game, “Friendship is Magi- I mean Them's Fightin’ Herds, a 2D fighting game where you control 4-legged herbivores with characters that don’t even try of pretend to not be based off the My Little Pony cast.



Set in the world of Fœnum, where all predators have been banished and herbivores rule, the seekers of the key--animals volunteered by their tribe to battle the emerging predator overlord to keep them banished away--will be fighting to see who is the best at that particular task. You got Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy (not by those names, but practically identical) and presumably our Rainbow Dash will be DLC or a stretch goal or something.

Anyway! The campaign is asking for $436,000, and in the 18 hours its been up, it’s already raised more than $100,000, so they’re well on their way. But mostly, as a recovering brony, it’s good to see these guys back. I was wondering what became of them--good to see it was something productive.