Pony Vs Pony - Battle is Magic

***Pony Vs Pony - Battle is Magic*** is an online flash game created by Artix Entertainment. It came out in September 2nd, 2011.

The game no longer works as of August 2023.

## Description and History

Unlike other Artix games, Pony Vs Pony is a simple puzzle game created with much less effort, like the ponies were created as static images. Inspired by My Little Pony, the game has a heavily charming and cutesy presentation of ponies along with horse puns, and was likely made as a joke. The game gets updated over time. However, it seemed to have been made with little care due to the number of bugs, glitches, type-os, and other problems that possibly remained even after updates.

In May 2012, once the Light and Dark item set for the Special Shop came out, that was the game's last update. On Pony Vs Pony's Facebook page, the post that announced that update said that those items were only available for a limited time, meaning that the game would've still been in development afterward, thus making it an abandoned project.

In February 2013, a picture of the earliest iOS prototype of the game was revealed, but never got made.

In February 2021, after Flash's End of Life, Artix's website removed almost every trace of Pony Vs Pony, with the remaining pages of the game being your profile and where to buy its Pony Up package.

In April 2023, the game can't be played anymore. Though it still works, people who sign in get an error message that reads *"Account Disabled"*.
In AdventureQuest Worlds, Pony Vs Pony was mockingly featured in an April Fools event.

In August 2023, the game no longer appears when opened and doesn't work anymore.

## Navigation

### Loading Screen (Artix Logo Variant)

When you first enter the game, on a different site link (ponyvspony.artix.com), the screen shows a loading bar with an orange dragon that's designed after the characters in the game. It also includes the words "Pony", made with the simple in-game font, and "Artix" and "Entertainment", both made with a more detailed font. "Artix" is being crashed on by a slanted "Pony" while "Entertainment" is placed on the bottom unaffected, making what used to say "Artix Entertainment" now say "Pony Entertainment". The logo is designed after Artix's real logo and having it taken over by the game. On Artix's Pony Vs Pony-related sites, except the one where you create a new Artix account in, the same logo was used as a button for Artix's home site link on the HUD, but without the word, "Pony", crashing. That version of the logo was also used in Pony Vs Pony's login screen.

### Login Screen

After the game loads, the login screen will appear. It includes a large Pony Vs Pony logo, its game version, two fill-in boxes where you can enter your Username and Password, a large *"Login!"* button which brings you to the next screen after your sign in info is filled, a *"Register!"* button which links to either a page where you can make an Artix account if you don't have one or your Artix Entertainment Master Account screen if you're already signed in on Artix's website, a *"Forgot Your Password?"* button, in simple font, which links you to an Artix page of what to do when you've lost your Artix account password; and two save buttons, one next to each fill-in box, which will save what's written on that box next time you visit the game. When you put your cursor over the words "Username" and "Password", a pop-up message will appear for each of them.

If you sign in with your username or password spelled wrong, you'll enter an error screen with a *"Reset!"* button. Clicking it will take you back to the login screen. Any other error messages in the game will also bring you back to the login screen.

### Personalize Pony

If you have an Artix account and sign into the game for the first time, you'll enter a screen where you can create your pony. You are given a still picture of your pony at a sideways view, and is the only model of it that you'll see throughout the game.

The screen includes options to personalize your pony with. You have three dropdown lists of names to select its first, middle, and last names with, as well as a *"Random Name*" button which will randomly pick a name for all three parts of it's name. Your pony always has three parts to its name and you can't make custom names for them. You can only pick names from the dropdown lists or by pressing *"Random Name"* which chooses names from the dropdowns.

You can select your pony's gender by pressing either the *"Girl"* and *"Boy"* button. Despite this however, both genders are indistinguishable. Your pony's gender isn't even written anywhere in the game, making it unnecessary.

Lastly, there are three different color palettes for you to choose the color of your pony's body, hair, and eyes. There are 16 body and hair colors, and 8 eye colors to choose from.

You are also given a box to write what your online nickname is, with "Bobby Joe" written by default. The game will accept any nickname and if it's blank. It only appears on the "Add Friends" screen in the game.

Once you've finished your pony, clicking the *"Play!"* button will send you to the game's hub menu and your account will be registered.

You can change the colors of your pony anytime on the "My Pony" screen, but its name, gender, and your nickname can't be changed.

### Pony Selection Screen

If you sign in after making your pony, you'll appear on a screen to select a pony you made to play as in the game. It shows the one you made with its name, level, cupcake level, and ranking shown below; with a *"Select"* button below them. The button's clicking area is actually the whole rectangular space that the button, your pony and its stats are in.

The screen also has two alicorn silhouettes with a "?" over them and "Coming Soon" written under them. The bottom of the screen reads "More Pony slots are coming soon!", which, along with the silhouettes, tell that you can make more ponies for the same account on a later update. However, that never came, leaving you with only one pony to make per account and having that be the only one to choose every time you play.

### Hub Menu

#### Pony Statistics

Once you pick your pony, you'll appear at the hub menu. It shows your pony, its name, and its following stats: Level, experience bar with number requirement to fill it, cupcake level, ranking, and Sparkle Gems.

Your pony starts at level 1. To level your pony up, you must first get experience by beating opponents in battles. Getting enough experience will then unlock a boss for you to fight and beating that boss will level your pony up. Every next level, more experience is required for your pony to level up. Every next level will increase your pony's health for battles, and every few levels will unlock a new shop.

Your cupcake level shows how well your battle performance is and allows you to fight opponents at around the same cupcake level you have. Depending on how well you beat your opponents, it will either raise, drop, or stay the same. Your pony's rankings are determined by their cupcake level and will change every 14 cupcake levels. Upon creating your pony, their cupcake level will start at 55 and is where they'll have the "Coconut" ranking.

Sparkle Gems are the game's currency used to buy things at shops. You can get Sparkle Gems by defeating opponents. No matter which opponent you beat, you will always be rewarded with a random number of Sparkle Gems within a certain range (100-149). However, beating opponents to win them requires Sparkle Gem Battles. You will get 50 SG Battles upon creating your pony and will be given 5 more daily as long as you visit the game. You'll automatically use up your SG Battles for every battle you win.

#### Buttons

The hub menu also includes the following buttons: *"Battle!"*, *"Boss"*, *"Friends"*, *"My Pony"*, *"Shop"*, *"Add Friends"*, *"Pony Page"*, *"Get More Sparkle Gems!"*, and three small icons: The letter *"Q"*, an oval-shaped speaker with sound waves coming out, and a music note. The "Friends" button is only available if you have in-game friends. Alongside, whenever your experience bar is full, a *"Level Up!"* button will appear over it until you defeat the newly unlocked boss to level up.

The biggest button is *"Battle!"*. It has the number of SG Battles you have on it, and a white branch where the related buttons, *"Boss"* and *"Friends"*, are placed on. Being part of the *"Battle"* button, its branch can also be clicked.

Clicking the three icons will change the game's settings. The *"Q"* button will let you change the quality at three levels, the speaker button lets you toggle the sound, and the music note button lets you toggle the music.

### Pony Up Package

*NOTE: As of today, the link below still sends you to where to buy the Pony Up Package even though the game can't be played anymore.* ***DO NOT BUY THAT PACKAGE.***

Clicking the *"Get More Sparkle Gems!"* button will open up a large pop-up for the game's Pony Up Package. It's an upgrade for your pony profile that requires paying $9.95 to get. The pop-up shows what you'll receive when you buy it, has a big *"Buy Now! $9.95"* button (which will then say *"Buy"* when you put your cursor over it) which will send you to a page on Artix's website where you can purchase the package, and an *"X"* button on the top-right corner which will close the pop-up. *Link excludes ID section of URL when signed into Artix's website, as forced to include even when logged out and will sign you in automatically.*

After you buy the Pony Up Package, you must refresh the game to get your upgrade. Buying the upgrade will give your pony 50,000 Sparkle Gems, 100 SG Battles both instantly and daily, in addition to the 5 you already get daily; and access to both the Mustang Shop and an upcoming Adventure Mode (which never came out). If you buy the upgrade more than once, you will get the same amount of Sparkle Gems, and both instant and daily SG Battles again, with the daily SG Battles stacking with the amount you get previously (ex. buying the upgrade twice will give you 205 SG Battles a day).

### Battle!

Clicking *"Battle!"* will send you to a screen where you can choose a pony to fight. It shows three ponies along with their names, levels, cupcake levels, and small and different *"Battle!"* buttons underneath, with click zones similar to the one on the pony selection screen. Also shown on the screen are the number of SG battles you have, the number of pages for this screen, and a *"Return to Menu!"* button which will send you back to the hub menu.

The ponies you'll choose to battle here were made by all other Artix players. Three are randomly selected every time you enter the screen, and who's chosen depends on your cupcake level. Even though there's a page counter for the number of onscreen ponies, there's only one page of them to choose from, which makes that feature pointless (unless more pages were planned on later updates).

### Friends

The "Friends" screen is very similar to the "Battle!" screen, but has the ponies you've befriended. They are arranged in level order. If more than one pony has the same level, they'll be placed in cupcake level order. If they have the same cupcake level too, they'll be placed in date creation order.

The page count is sensible here. Showing three ponies per page, having more than three friends will put them on new pages. You can change the pages with the 'next' or 'previous' arrow buttons. However, if your last page has less than three ponies and you click the 'previous' arrow button, the page won't change and will instead break. The ponies will disappear, leaving their names, stats, and *"Battle!"* buttons shown, and you can't interact with anything except the button to go back to the hub menu, which will fix the problem. This is one of many bugs/errors you'll encounter throughout the game.

### Boss (and Level Up!)

Clicking *"Boss"* and *"Level Up!"* will both take you to a screen to select a boss character to fight. On it, you'll see a boss with its level, cupcake level, and *"Battle!"* button, placed below as well. The same click zone is used too. You'll also see a large box where the boss's name and description are in, a page count, both arrow buttons for it, and a *"Return to Menu!"* button.

One boss is shown at a time and you can click the arrows to change the pages for each boss. The pages are in boss level order. There are 19 bosses in the game.

All of the bosses' cupcake levels are withheld, only showing *"???"*.

Whenever you enter the screen, you'll always be on the page of the boss you recently unlocked.

### My Pony

The "My Pony" screen contains a large inventory box where you bought all your items (in pages of six items at a time). They're always placed in the order in which they were bought. Clicking an item will equip/unequip it and bring you back to the first page every time. If you have seven or more items that aren't divided by six and go to the last page, the remaining space(s) on that page will get filled with items from the second to last page and the items listed on the previous pages are now offset without affecting their order. Going back to the first page will revert this.

The inventory box also has six different buttons for your items, and two more that do something different. Five item buttons, *"Head"*, *"Pets"*, *"Clothes"*, *"Body"*, and *"Accessories"*, will start your item list at the first item that matches the category of that type of item, also offsetting where the pages start. *Click here to see a list of what types of items will start at which category.* This won't change the order they were bought in and all items that aren't in that category will still be present in that order. Equipping/unequipping an item each time will start you in the same spot on the list from which button was pressed last. If clicking those buttons start your list at an item that was bought fifth to last through last, it will still be the first item shown for that page and that page will be incomplete. This will still occur if you have only 6 items or less.

The one other item button, *"Equipped"*, will only show the items you're currently equipped with. Clicking an item to unequip it will not make it absent until you click the button again. Equipping or unequipping items even after the first page will always start the list back on the first page's first item even if that item's been unequipped.

As for the two other buttons, *"Customize 🎨"* will open the "Customize Color" pop-up, allowing you to change the color of your pony's body, eye, and hair; and the *"Save"* button will save the color and inventory changes you've made to your pony, and they will appear like that the next time you start the game. If you make changes without saving, your pony will only stay like that until you close the game.

### Add Friends

The "Add Friends" screen is where you can befriend other ponies created in the game. It has a "Your Friend Code" box where your own pony's friend code is written and can be copied, an "Enter Friend Code" box with a bar to enter other ponies' friend codes and a "Request!" button to send friend requests to those ponies, and a "Pending Friends" box where those requests will appear in.

When you write down or paste another pony's friend code into the "Enter Friend Code" bar, then click "Request!", your friend request will be sent to that pony's "Add Friends" page in the game. The friend request will show the sent person's Online Nickname (made in the "Personalize Pony" screen where the player created their pony) and the name of their pony. The requests have "Yes" and "No" buttons to either accept or decline them. Four requests are shown at a time. When a pony has friend requests, the number of requests are shown under the "Add Friends" button on the hub menu.

When you're friends with another pony, they will appear in the "Friends" screen for you to battle as many times as you want. However, they will still be controlled by the computer.

Once you befriend someone, you can never unfriend them.

#### Notes and Bugs

* When one pony account sends one friend code multiple times, that pony's "Pending Friends" list will show one of those requests normally while the duplicates only show question marks for the sender's nickname and pony name. Despite that, duplicate requests still work like normal and the game still recognizes who sent them.

* Accepting a friend request of someone you've already befriended will give you an error screen and send you back to the login screen.

* Requesting your own friend code will also result in an error screen.

* The first part of the friend codes are ponies' respectful Pony IDs.

* If you send a blank request or any character that’s not a number, the game will be stuck on the loading screen indefinitely, forcing you to refresh. This can be avoided if you enter a number and then a dash first, like from the friend codes the game intended you to write.

## Gallery

### General

Pony Vs Pony LogoPony Vs Pony Logo (Small) (Source)Pony Vs Pony Logo 2Website's Repeatable BackgroundHorizontal Advertisement (Source)Vertical Advertisement (Photographed and Cut) (Source)
### Loading and Error Screens

Loading Screen When Game StartsGame's General Loading ScreenError Screen (Bad Username or Password)Error Screen (Can Not Find Account)Error Screen (Account Disabled.)Error Screen (Session Expired)Error Screen (Can't Friend Self)Error Screen (Already Your Friends)Error Screen (Not High Enough Level)
### Login Screen

Login ScreenUsername MessagePassword Message
### Personalize Pony

Personalize Pony ScreenName Dropdown Shown

### Hub Screen

After Creating New PonyLevel Up Button PresentNo SG BattlesAt Level 20
### Battle Selection Screen

Battle Selection ScreenPonies and Their Stats LoadingMessage shown when out of SG battles.When you're out of SG Battles and see the previous message on the screen, leave and return to this screen to see this different message.
### My Pony

Default Inventory List (Always Arranged in Purchased Order)Equipped Items ListEquipped Items List With Nothing EquippedClicking "Head" Starts Your List at Your First Head-Related Item ('eye', 'mane', 'mouth', or 'horn')Clicking "Pets" Starts Your List at Your First 'pet'Clicking "Clothes" Starts Your List at Your First 'clothes' ItemClicking "Body" Starts Your List at Your First Body-Related Item ('tail' or 'wing')Clicking "Accessories" Starts Your List at Your First Accessory-Related Item ('acc\_head' or 'acc\_body')Customize Color Box