The Horse Game Database: A TMQ Community Project calls for Contributors
The Horse Game Flowchart humorously illustrates how impossible it can be to find a specific game. Made by server regular and tireless wiki contributor SartorialDragon. See full image
Let’s face it: Horse Games can be very confusing. So many of them have incredibly similar mechanics and storylines, many were sold under completely different titles in different languages, and more often than not the developers and publishers who made them have long gone away without leaving behind any information on their past projects.
I try to clear up misconceptions where I can – I’ve touched on this subject in the My Riding Stables 2018 review and this Riding Star interview – but considering the sheer amount of horse games and titles available, there’s a lot more work to be done.
Enter a few very passionate members of the TMQ Discord Community! Using a dedicated channel on our server to coordinate, a handful of people have been doing their best to bring order into this chaos: The Horse Game Database.
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. The database is already shaping up to be incredibly useful as a resource, but it is far, far from complete.
And that is where you come in: if you have a bit of time and horse game knowledge to spare, the Horse Game Database can use your help. Join our Discord server and make yourself at home in the dedicated #horse-game-database channel, where you’ll find our handful of documentation enthusiasts who can help you get started as a wiki contributor.
Whether you’re looking for a specific game from your childhood that you can’t find anymore, or you have a pile of horse games at home that you can’t find info on online, any contribution is much appreciated. Your help today may well make someone’s day tomorrow, the next time someone searches for that one horse game that they loved and don’t remember the name of.
And as all of us know: horse game fans deserve better.
I was invited to a brand new podcast called You Are Error, hosted by games journalist Nathan Grayson for Aftermath. Nathan and I talked about some of the many ways in which mainstream video games keep dropping the ball when it comes to including horses and why I’m sure that the horse game audience is bigger than anyone realizes and has a lot of potential.