The game attracted the attention of the due to its atypical gameplay for the fighting genre, which features playable four-legged non-humanoid characters. The development team, Mane6, consisted of nine volunteers who were.
After receiving a letter from for infringing their rights, the development team discarded the original premise, game engine, and art assets, and began development on Them's Fightin' Herds as an original work with new characters., who had developed the characters for Friendship Is Magic, stepped in to create new characters for the game. The title is the to a game initially developed under the title of Fighting Is Magic, as an unofficial fan project starring the characters of the television series. WW: TBA Mode(s), Them's Fightin' Herds is an upcoming indie developed by Mane6 and published by, featuring all-female cartoon fighting each other to find a champion worthy of gaining a magical key that will protect their world from predators.
