[UPDATED] My Riding Stables 2: A New Adventure Announced for PS4 and Switch

My Riding Stables 2: A New Adventure is scheduled to release this year (exact dates vary) on Playstation 4 and Nintendo Switch. Thanks to a chat with RokaPublish Managing Director Robert Kaiser, I’ve been able to learn a bit more about the project than is currently publicly available.

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Review: Windstorm - Ari’s Arrival – An Open World Horse Adventure that Outshines its Predecessor in Every Way

Windstorm: Ari’s Arrival, created by Aesir Interactive, was released along with the movie of the same name in March 2019. I’ve been meaning to review it basically ever since. I have to admit that we’ve all been sleeping on this one, because it really gets a whole bunch of things right, and deserves vastly more attention from horse-loving players than it has been getting.

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Making your own Horse Game – Part Three: Scope and Focus

We continue our series on what to keep in mind when setting out to create your own horse game: Let’s assume now that you already have a bit of gamedev experience in this field, be it as a hobbyist or as a professional.

Perhaps you are – like me – a game creator of some experience who finally wants to tackle their passion project, who finally wants to make “the thing” that you believe is missing: the good horse game.

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Making your own Horse Game – Part Two: Involving Others

When getting into game development, it makes sense to take the first steps by yourself, to practice game creation without relying on others at first. But the moment will come when other other people become relevant: possible team mates, playtesters and eventually the public. Let’s look at some basic guidelines for how to involve other people in your passion projects.

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Making your own Horse Game – Part One: Baby Steps

Starting to make a game based on the premise of “what would be my perfect horse game” rather than “what kind of game can I reasonably expect to make” has its pitfalls. Overcomplexity, feature creep and creative burnout from wanting too much are all too common among passionate newbie creators. Let’s look at some of these challenges and how you can work your way around them.

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Second Life Quadrille: Modders and Equestrians unite for Elaborate Dressage Performances

Second Life is a social online simulation, a virtual world where you can do just about anything. Thanks to active content producers and TMQ community members Teager and Monstaar, I get the occasional insight into this fascinating niche.

This is what it can look like when a group of motivated equestrian Second Life players gets practicing.

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The TMQ Community Draws! From #BellaSaraMay to #Junicorn and beyond!

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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Review: Rival Stars Horse Racing Desktop Edition — Gorgeous Graphics and Forgivable Flaws

Rival Stars Horse Racing is a horse racing game developed by New Zealand based company PikPok. The “Desktop Edition” follows the releases of Rival Stars Horse Racing on Android and iOS. Can the Desktop Edition of Rival Stars offer the best of both worlds and become one of the rare few quality horse games available on PC?

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Rival Stars Horse Racing comes to PC and Mac next Month

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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Character Diversity, Beta Testing and Patreon Support – Latest News from Equestrian: The Game

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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