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As a surprise to literally no one, I have a lot of thoughts on what the creators of games with horses in them could be doing better. Every horse game player has dreams and ideas and could start listing all the features that their ideal horse game would have in an instant. Let’s ignore the dream projects today and focus on a handful of fairly basic, relatively easily fixable* mistakes that horse game developers should really stop making.
Read MoreSolo game creator and TMQ Community member Éloise Laroche is officially announcing her newest project today: The Ranch of Rivershine is a horse ranch management game headed for a Steam release.
Anyone who follows Éloise’s Twitter or the gamedev channel on our community discord has already seen glimpses of the work in progress, but here is our first official trailer:
Read MoreI’ve been meaning to give you all a look into the creation of Rival Stars Horse Racing ever since I first got in touch with the team for a review key in June 2020. I’m more than happy to finally present you all with some insight – just in time for the game’s much-anticipated Jumping features being released on mobile.
Read MoreI was interviewed on the subject of horse games and The Mane Quest in general by games writer Hylke Langhout for The Indie Game Website.
Read MoreAfter some years of relative horse game drought, it’s quite astonishing that in Spring 2021, we got not one, but two moderately big horse games based on existing brands but with original worlds and gameplay. You already know I was quite fond of Horse Club Adventures despite some obvious flaws, so how does this one compare?
Read MoreI am absolutely thrilled to share an exclusive game announcement with you: Tivola has been working on a brand new mobile horse game, and here is your TMQ-exclusive first look at it.
Read MoreI’m thrilled to announce that the TMQ Community will have its first ever developer AMA (Ask Me Anything)!
This Thursday, Producer and Lead Designer of Horse Club Adventures Michael Hengst will be answering all your questions about the recently released Horse Club game and its upcoming sequel.
Read MoreLead Designer and Prodcuer Michael Hengst contacted me right after I first announced the relaase of Horse Club Adventures. Now that I’ve played the game myself, I’m thrilled to give all of you some additional insight into how Horse Club Adventures was made, what we already know about its upcoming sequel, and what Michael thinks of the horse game genre in general.
Read MoreUPDATE: There’s been a back and forth about the inclusion of the explicitly supportive paragraph.
Read MoreHorse Club Adventures is a multiplatform adventure game created by Wild River Games under the Schleich brand. Like many games in this genre, Horse Club Adventures is aimed at young girls and promises exciting adventures, thrilling races and solving mysteries with the power of friendship. Let’s take a look at how well it lives up to these claims.
Read MoreIn a press release this month, Star Stable Entertainment AB has shared some interesting insights into their game’s growth: The company reveals that many performance indicators such as daily active users, revenue and gameplay hours have significantly grown in the past few years.
Read MoreI sat down for a chat with Katrin Haase, has long years of experience making games for children at Markt + Technik. After the many frustrations that this company’s games has let me feel, I finally wanted to know: why do these games get made and how are they produced? And perhaps more importantly: how can they ever become better?
Join me for a fascinating insight into the world of low budget horse game production.
Read MoreI was invited to be part of their “OG Unwrapped” Showcase Event, where I could try the upcoming Spirit Lucky’s Big Adventure for the first time. Read on to learn my first impressions, what I already love about it, and what to expect from the title.
In January, we learned of a new upcoming horse game based on Dreamworks’ Spirit franchise and the upcoming movie Spirit Untamed. The Mane Quest reached out to its creators in order to learn more about the game’s development. Santiago R. Bedate from aheartfulofgames takes the time to give us some interesting insight behind the scenes of Spirit Lucky’s Big Adventure.
Read MorePublisher Markt + Technik and developer Independent Arts Software have brought another horse farm buildup game to PlayStation 4 and Nintendo Switch. Let’s have a look.
Read MoreHarvest Days is an upcoming farming simulation indie game which promises somewhat extensive horse features In their latest dev log video, the team reveals details about the horse mechanics and unfortunately… let’s say it’s a mixed bag.
When I reviewed Rival Stars Horse Racing for the release of its Desktop Edition in June 2020, I already came away with a fairly positive view on it. I certainly did not expect the game’s scope to significantly expand beyond Racing. But as it turns out, PikPok games will be doing its best to make a lot of horse game fans very happy in the near future
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