Search The Mane Quest
If you’re looking for any specific article, I generally recommend typing “the mane quest” plus your keyword(s) into Google. The Squarespace site search is not always helpful. A full list of all my articles can also be found over here on the Horse Game Database, which is very useful if you want to quickly search all my content!
I figured I might as well put together some impressions and opinions on the horse-like creature that you ride in Elden Ring. And then I got sucked in and am now 30 hours into it with no intention of stopping soon.
If you’re not interested in detailed analysis of horse animation, then you’ve come to the wrong website. But this is The Mane Quest and complaining extensively about how horse legs work or don’t work is what we do. Let’s begin.
Read MoreSolo game developer Mawleen reached out to me to tell me about their game, and I thought I might as well post a quick article about it: Horse Trek - a Long Faced Journey is a fluffy, cozy Dating Sim game where you play as a human and date sentient horses.
Read MoreAs is becoming tradition, I want to use the opportunity of the year coming to an end to look back upon what happened on The Mane Quest these past twelve months, to share some stats and numbers and to give you all some insight into the life and work behind this website.
And holy crap, what a year it has been.
Read MoreBack in July, I was able to announce Tivola’s upcoming mobile horse racing game Wildshade exclusively on The Mane Quest. As of today, the game is already being played by thousands of very enthusiastic players.
Read MoreIt’s been over two years since I talked to former Product Owner Nika Bender about the making of SSO – I’m thrilled to give you all some delicious new insights. This time, I had two absolutely wonderful calls with two of the core people behind developing and managing Star Stable Online: Game Director Stacy Place and CEO Johan Sjöberg.
Read MoreWe sometimes about “horse games” as if that term described a specific genre. In reality, while many classic horse games do fit into the farm buildup and simulation genre, the concept of “game that features horses prominently and has lots of mechanics relating to them” is not tied to that setup at all. In this article and the two previous volumes in this series, I try to broaden people’s horizons a little as to what could be cool horse games.
Read MoreAs 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 More
