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I’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
Read MoreI came across a lovely looking adventure game: Dissension tells the story of an Imperial spy sent onto a dangerous undercover mission. Naturally, I reached out to the developer Disguised Games to get a bit more information about how this cute indie game will tackle its horse content.
Read MoreLet’s face it: Horse Games can be very confusing. Over on wiki.themanequest.com, some of our community members have been creating pages, and categories with a lot of information and screenshots of dozens of different horse games, all in an attempt to help people find the games they’re looking for.
Read MoreDreamworks and Outright Games have announced a new video game based on the Spirit: Riding Free TV show and it’s upcoming feature film adaptation, Spirit Untamed. Spirit Lucky’s Big Adventure will be released on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and in the digital PC market.
Read MoreAs the year draws to a close, I want to take the opportunity to share some site stats and insights as well as a bit of self-indulgent rambling on this website and what it means to me. So let’s catch up: what has The Mane Quest been up to in 2020?
Read MoreA few weeks ago, popular gaming website Polygon asked me to write a contribution to their “Horse Girl Canon”: A series of articles for and by horse lovers, about all sorts of horsey content across multiple media.
Read MorePolygon writer Simone de Rochefort and Horse Historian Professor Donna Landry take a close look at the horses in the Assassin’s Creed games: The recent titles Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla all use the same horse model regardless of their vastly different settings and cultural context.
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