The old trailer made the game look much slower than it actually is, so I completely redid it to better show the fast arcade gameplay, the growing horse herd chaos and that addictive flow feeling of Horse Runner DX.
I also recently released an update based on player feedback with improved visual clarity, smoother herd movement, a new friends leaderboard and several bug fixes.
I stumbled across this neat detail of Agro walking up to drink from a little oasis in the desert. I never got to play the original release. Was this always in the game or something they added in the remaster?
I'm personally thinking they are horribly animated, stiff and kind of... off. Like a less fun version of the old Star Stable horses - weird but not in a good way.
I think the best part about them is the hard stop animation, since it feels cartoony and silly in a way that fits Palia at least. What are you guys thinking so far?
Hi everyone! I'd love to get some advice/critiques on my mustang game models. These are the detailed normal maps I'll be drawing over lower poly models, and for that reason, please let me know what I've gotten right and wrong anatomically, and what I can improve on.
(PS: I apologize for leaving out their separate eye meshes).
So I recently just got a Nintendo switch and I’m looking for horse racing games. There are three titles I have my eye on. These being Phar Lap, Winning Post 10, and Derby Stallion. Phar Lap being the only of these with an English version. What do you guys recommend either from above or other?
Sorry, I only work a German Version for the beginning.
I didn't really planned it that way, but I'm currently knee deep in the development of a horse card game. I love drawing horses, I love seeing them as unique characters, I also love games and card design. Due my years in HARPG (horse art roleplaying) I set up a lot of different roleplay mechanics and I also play all the horsey games who gets released.
I started and cancelled many previous horse game ideas I had. Video game developing and website building is not my thing, as far as I know xD I have so much respect for all the single devs out there.
But traditional print design? Wait, I have a degree in it!
Overall I sank several years of idea collecting, developing an art style and research! in these three cards I can show off today. There are also 57 horse cards with missing horse illustrations waiting 🥴
I plan to make prototyps (without art) for testing and balancing in the next weeks. I can tell you this much: I am trying to incorporate breeding mechanics and competitions into a card game using a simple (and hopefully addictive) workflow. Oh, and the areas above the horse illustrations are blank because you can write down a name for the horse. Horse naming is one of the collest part in horse games imo so I wanted to have this here too.
Let me know your thoughts.
Hey folks!
I've been working on a horse game called Metahoof and just found this comm, honestly so glad it exists haha
We're at the alpha stage and looking for a few people to try it out and tell us what they think. No pressure, just play around with it and let us know what feels good, what doesn't, what's missing. Horse game fans tend to have strong opinions and that's exactly what we need right now.
If that sounds like fun to you, comment below or DM me and I'll share the Discord. Happy to answer questions about the game too!
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Edit: Genuinely appreciate the honest feedback, means a lot. We get it. Not the right fit for this commn right now, and that's okay. - We might be back with a different direction, and we're not off it - for upcoming weeks I will focus on make the game more attractive and focus in creating a fun game above anything, for that thanks!
OK I saw a Star Stable ad and I loved the ad it made me laugh. But I can't find it anywhere.
It had a narrator talking about the player character, and she would sometimes respond.
He said things like "She spends her days hanging out with her friends, training her obscene amount of horses, and spending 40 minutes to pick an outfit."
Then he went on to talk about fighting Garnok and such later in her week, and she responded with something like "You're kidding right? Right??"
Does anyone know what ad I mean? I want to show a friend of mine. I think the character was blonde.
Today was the day I gave the game the very first try. I know it's still in an early stage, but many people told me they already had many hours in the game and enjoy it.
Maybe Im just not pleased with luck, but I have so much game issues it's not enjoyable. I get stuck a lot for one til two minutes while my horse is doing a moonwalk. I had to wait til the animation finish, then the game totally freeze for a minute and then it goes back to normal. This happend several times.
I also had to reset my characters position two times, because I hard stuck in a bridge.
The game has moments where it starts to flicker. I tried different graphic settings, but there is still this flickering over the complete screen from time to time.
But now, I had to stop playing, because the horse for the mountains doesn't appear in the menu. It tells me to change my horse, but the only horse I can select is my starter horse. I restarted the game, but it still doesnt appear. I will give this game half a year or a full year more development time.
Sorry for the repetitive post after this one, I posted the meme when I thought I was giving up on doing an actual article, but then I ended up cutting much of the model/animation analysis and just summarized some basics. 🙈
Hi all.
Previously, the 2007 Beta CD of Riding Club Championships was archived on archive.org
Well, I'd like to share my finding with everyone: the 2008 commercial release version. I looked through the files and there unfortunately was not cross country or dressage, I did find a "Module Merger" which is not present in the beta CD originally archived around 2023-2024.
I uploaded it to my proton drive, here's the iso for those who are interested: https://drive.proton.me/urls/DVEZ5YQYZ0#4kc8m0Hcjec0
I would also like to clarify for everyone unfamiliar - the 2007 and 2008 versions of Riding Club Championships are not the same game as what recently shut down on Steam. The CD game was made with Gamebryo engine and Quazal middleware, while the remaster on Steam was made with Unity. They are 2 different games.
Additionally, I'd like to share Horse Star - the 2010 MMO that never left beta. The TMQ wiki shares information about it and screenshots from it running in a broken state, but I don't like the files being gatekept from the public. So here they are: https://drive.proton.me/urls/VP7APEF8HG#Ow8td8R4rdF1
Just like mentioned in the wiki, 4 xml and txt files are missing. They're asset lists the game calls for. The game runs in Unity and if you look through the game in something like IDA you could find out what assets the game calls for and recreate the list.
If anyone is experienced, or knows someone who would want to touch either of these games, the files are now public and free to use by anyone.
Are there any games/websites that are similar to Lioden and Flight rising but for horses.
I played ao since i was 8, i was so rich and made friends in that game, but now it's been gone for years and I miss it so much😭😭 it got so bad that I had a dream where I was breeding horses in it because I miss that ao type of gambling so much
I know theres SoA and MoA but I'm scared that it just won't be the same, and one of them doesn't even have proper breeding which I miss the most, and I don't want to start over totally, maybe only if they gave you 1 million carrots instantly at the start lol but I'm too lazy to race all day again just to breed with mid horses and I miss my old horses so much💔
I wish some miracle will happen and Alex would announce that it's playable again
What color would this be??? I'm just having slight difficulty figuring it out
The alt key is right under the main controls for movement and right next to spacebar so I often can't shift my fingers in time or click spacebar instead wasting more stamina instead of gaining it. I tried to change the keybind but literally all the keys are already assigned somewhere by default. I also originally wanted to keybind it to one of my gaming mouse buttons but it doesn't even register it, is there a way to assign it to gaming mouse buttons?
I'm just super excited :0 Thought I'd share with fellow horse people. I've spent 4 months creating this horse :,) Side hobby to my improvement of QHs
