Rewrite: Fantasy is an adventure role-playing game coming to iOS and Android in Summer 2020. The game features a 2D side-scrolling overworld, a character driven story, and a turn-based battle system. And horses!
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If you follow some artists on social media, you will no doubt have heard of one or the other monthly drawing challenge: from Inktober to Mermay, various such community events have popped up over the years.
In May and June, several TMQ community members — including yours truly — participated in two horse-oriented drawing marathons.
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New Zealand based games publisher PikPok has announced a desktop version of their popular mobile game Rival Stars Horse Racing.
Rival Stars Horse Racing: Desktop Edition is scheduled to launch on Steam on June 24th 2020 and will be available for Mac and PC. The game’s description claims it has been “graphically enhanced for desktop”.
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If you’re a regular reader of The Mane Quest, you’ll already know that thousands of horse game fans are eagerly awaiting what looks like the most promising project this genre has ever seen: Equestrian the Game.
The team is diligantly sharing updates on social media. Let’s have a look at the latest.
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A part of the Horses & Video Games community has started organizing horse-focused virtual get togethers for the kind of players who simply want to share in the joy of riding across the virtual countryside on well-animated horses in Red Dead Online.
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If you’d like to show your support and proclaim your horse game enthusiasm to the world, you can now get some cool merch items from RedBubble.
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About a month ago, a passionate rant posted to the /r/Games forum on Reddit brought the topic of horse games and their faults to a wide audience. The Plaid Horse, an online magazine dedicated to horses and equestrianism, approached the post’s author shortly afterwards to share a slightly edited version of the Reddit rant on their blog.
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Aesir Interactive, the studio behind single player horse games Ostwind/Windstorm (2017) and Windstorm: Ari’s Arrival (2019) is working on a new horse-themed project.
Under the working title “Stable Girl”, the German team has qualified for funding at FFF Bayern, Bavaria’s film and media sponsorship program
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I regularly search Twitter for anything that includes the words “gamedev” and “horse” in an attempt to keep track of what’s being made. One such search I recently stumbled across Kanna, an independently developed open world role playing games which promises to treat its horses as more than just ways of transport.
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Join the TMQ communities on Discord, Reddit and our brand new Facebook Group to meet other horse game lovers and share your ideas, complaints, jokes and thoughts about all things horses and video games.
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Horse Isle 3 is an open world online multiplayer game focused on catching wild horses and breeding them for better stats. The game went live in August, after several months of open beta testing.
The decision for the game to get “released” came as a surprise to some players, considering the game’s status: The game’s 3D art and user interface look rough to put it mildly.
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The Mane Quest website was launched on October 23rd 2018, exactly one year ago today. The site started out with 10 articles, many of them much shorter than most that have been published since.
For The Mane Quest’s first anniversary, I want to share some interesting site statistics, tell you all a bit about what this project means to me, and to ask you for your feedback.
Wild Horse’s Valley is somewhat unique among the genre in that you control a herd of wild horses rather than managing a stable or equestrian center. You take the role of the lead stallion in charge of protecting your herd. In the wild, you may encounter dangers or new herd members.
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German developer Caipirinha Games has a new horse game in store in time for this year’s Winter Holidays:
The Unicorn Princess is an open world horse game with a fantasy twist: “Befriend Unica the unicorn while exploring the real world and the world of dreams,” says the promotional material.
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After some teasing and speculation via a Livestream the past weekend, the official Pokemon YouTube Channel has announced a new creature for Pokémon Shield: Galarian Ponyta.
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If you’ve been following TMQ for a while, you’ll know that good horse animation is hard to find, and for those of us more gifted in game design or coding than in art, a sprite pack like this can be an incredible ressource.
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Horse Isle 3: Infinite Wilds has officially gone live on August 25th, after several months of open beta testing.
Unlike its predecessors, Horse Isle 3 is fully 3D, with the exact looks of horses being determined by their stats and genetics. “No two horses look or behave alike!” claims the game’s website.
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Dash Society is a horse-themed MMO with an ambitious take on artificial horse intelligence. Solo developer UnknownHero writes about his work on the game’s dev blog, with the most recent entry dreaming big about what could be done for horse AI in games.
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