Good afternoon everypony!

Novel Idea here with your weekly Manehattan Project update. Today we’re introducing the newest member of our technical team: EgoJonathan!

I am a puzzle solver/collector. This has generally taken the form of coding and mathematical concepts. I am looking for new challenges to conquer to perfection. I will make sure the scripts run and run smoothly.

While not directly experienced in GECK Kung Fu, EgoJonathan brings a wealth of scripting experience with half a dozen different programming languages. We are very excited to have him on the team. With his help, development of the story scripting of GoE should increase quite a bit!

Speaking of which, things are booking along quite well. We’ve deep into the voice over recording for all the characters of GoE, artwork is turning out fantastic & level design is back up to snuff. Speaking of which, I wanted to share the latest bit of artwork from Blue Nova below!

This one was a tough one. Originally based off the “Help Uncle Sam” poster, doing this with ponies turned out to be tremendously difficult. The body posture was quite the nightmare. But after some back and forth, Blue Nova definitely came up with a winner.

We’re very happy with the final result. 🙂

Finally, it’s long past time that we get that YouTube Audiobook thing updated, eh?

Well, guess what? We’re doing things differently this time!

First of all, we’ve already uploaded everything up to Chapter 21: The Heart of Twilight Sparkle. Make sure to check out the new introduction. It might remind you of a certain series of trailers!

Second and most importantly, we’re going to be releasing a new chapter every day until the book is complete!

That’s right! No more waiting. No more three a week. And since we’re starting on Chapter 21, we don’t have very far to go!

Now we won’t be doing a post every day for this of course, but we will be updating our Twitter account: @Manehattan_Proj. Or you could subscribe to us on YouTube. So you’ll want to stay tuned for when those update. I’m aiming to post them every night around 8PM. Or you can always just check the playlist!

We’re looking forward to finally getting this out and done. But remember, you don’t have to wait for the YouTube version! We have both M4B and MP3 versions of the full audiobook complete right now

By the way, if you happen to run into any errors, repeated lines or anything else, please feel free to leave a comment on our forums. Like I mentioned before, I don’t intend to do another big launch, but I’ll likely do another small update after I listened to the entire thing for the ninth time. (Yeah, I’m doing all the QA for it. 😉 ).

That’s it for this week folks. Have an awesome day and we’ll see you next week! Same Pony time, same Pony channel.

-Novel Idea

P.S. A special thank you to our webmaster RedBeard for installing our new website Favicon. I know it’s a super-small thing, but you know what I say: “If you’re going to do something, do it right and do it with style.” Looks pretty, huh? 😀