Stores have three jobs - any pony can take the first job, but the second and third jobs have minimum star rating requirements. Each pony has a five-star rating that controls which jobs they can take. Shops produce piles of coins at intervals of minutes to hours, and you use those coins to buy ponies, and shops in which to employ them. You raise money by building shops and putting ponies to work in them. You do this by raising in-game currency to bring all the town's ponies back one-by-one in a brightly coloured balloon. It's up to you and purple pony protagonist Twilight Sparkle, to beat back the darkness and repopulate Ponyville.
The game is set in an alternate-universe version of the show, where villainous equine Nightmare Moon has covered the town of Ponyville in eternal darkness. (Mostly the latter, I'm sure.) Now, thanks to a deal between Hasbro and Gameloft, it's also the title of a 'freemium' city-builder game for iOS and Android devices.
NIGHTMARE MOON: A great little town-building game for kids and My Little Pony fans, ruined by a 'pay to win' pricing model.įriendship is Magic is a popular US television show, created to spread a message of friendship and sell Hasbro's current generation of My Little Pony toys.
