Alice Ruppert 🐴🎮
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Looking for work (Producing & Marketing in Games) Horse Game Consultant. Creator of @TheManeQuest . she/her
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I am looking for consulting work! My specific niche of expert knowledge is horses in video games but I can also support in marketing, community management, producing and general gamedev mentoring.
Portfolio and contact info:
#gamedev
#gamejobs
#swissgames
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We're making a game where you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia
No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness.
Would you play this?
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Hi my name is Alice and I complained about all horse games being bad SO extensively that a 50-people company finally went "fine, make a better one" and put me in charge of their next project.
Doesn't stop feeling fucking wild, honestly
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I love how the responses to this are mostly "finally, a game made for me this is everything I want" and then a handful of "games without combat are boring😠"
To the former: hi hello welcome I've found my people
to the rest: good news literally all of AAA gaming exists for you 😘
We're making a game where you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia
No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness.
Would you play this?
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If you're intrigued, find more info on Steam and add it to your wishlist 🙏🥰
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Jesus this is doing numbers y'all are amazing.
Wishlist Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch on Steam or pre-order it for Switch, PS4 or PS5 at your local retailer, release is November 2022 😱❤
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Honestly kind of amazing that my horse game is playable in the same hall as like Ubisoft and Banda Namco stuff.
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Title suggestions from a recent Reddit Post I made about this btw:
Post of Tsushima
Kingdom Come: Delivery
Mongolia Stranding
Death Horsing
Red Dead Delivery
We're making a game where you play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia
No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness.
Would you play this?
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Ok so since "I complained until I got put in charge" is a mild simplification (and bc I have 2k new followers), let me actually summarize how I went from being disappointed in all horse games to basically being the internet authority on horse games and in charge of making one. 🧵
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@HopeBelieveLive
animal husbandry and training will definitely be a big part, check out our latest dev diary:
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The free Demo for Ranch of Rivershine goes live today and I'd like to elaborate on why I'm very happy about this beyond just "look everyone, a horse game" 🧵
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I thought I'd just try a quick post on my last day of work before vacation and whoopsied into a 3M views viral tweet and now people are arguing in my mentions about whether or not our game is gonna be too woke💀💀💀
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what's missing from this is that the original movie had legitimately amazing 2D horse animation that's some of the absolute best horse animation around, period. And the new stuff is... somewhere between 'okay' and 'yikes', much of the time 😞
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@nik_eni
that makes no sense for dev resources. we'd rather focus our efforts on the features we actually WANT to add
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Someone on Discord asked me for my favorite spots in the game, and someone else asked to see more mane/tail variations on our Irish Cobs, so here's a post with both 🥰
Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch will be out THIS WEEK AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH 😱😱😱
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COMMON GAMEDEV MISTAKES AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
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The Thread.
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@Scarlett_JDR
the horse breeding will follow roughly realistic rules of coat color inheritance, yea!
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it's me I'm the girlies
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THOSE GAMES HAVE HORSES *IN* THEM AURE BUT THEY‘RE NOT ACTUALLY *ABOUT* HORSES AND ALSO THEY ALWAYS HAVE SOME WEIRD SHIT GOING ON WITH THEIR ANIMATIONS AND THE HORSES JUST FEEL MORE LIKE A SPEED UPGRADE THAN A LIVING CREATURE AND THERE‘S JUST REALLY A LOT OF US WHO ARE LOOKING F—
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Shadow of the Colossus, but instead of killing huge creatures, you heal them. You climb up on an almost dead colossus to reach a spot where you can insert healing magic and the further along you are with healing, the harder it gets to stay on because the thing is moving again.
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@ArthurJonesDev
Delivering cargo, training horses, planning routes, managing your camp, breeding horses & taking care of them... Check out our dev diaries on Steam for some more info!
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@PlayWindstorm
obligatory addition please follow
@TheManeQuest
for commentary on games with horses in them
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I'mma fuck off on holiday and not check my notifications for at least two weeks so that's actually great
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also folks I've been answering a lot of questions about the game in this thread here on
@rgirlgamers
(which is also really lovely btw!!) so make sure to check that out if you wanna know more
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@cinnamonkacchan
breeding is a core feature! Our horses have genetic patterns inspired by irl horse genetics and you can breed for stats, traits and colors. One additional breed (Irish Cob) is planned for the limited edition of the game, but the main horse breed in the game is the Selle Français
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I can FINALLY tell you: As of this month, I have started a new position as Creative Producer at Aesir Interactive. I am now officially MAKING HORSE GAMES with a team of ~12 people and a company who believes in this genre. 3 years of running The Mane Quest are now paying off 😭❤️
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@RealHintKeeper
Early Access release will be PC only, but stay tuned for console news after that!
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damn I just saw people calling it "Steppe Stranding" in the replies and that's actually better!
Also people keep trying to come up with a Eurotruck Simulator reference, but uuuh... Mongolhorse Simulator 1232 doesn't hit quite as hard?
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Wow this is a really neat thread about how personality seeps into code:
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Look who‘s laughing now, bitch
(We finally installed child safety locks after he even managed to pull a double wrapped rubber band off over the top of those handles)
Lord help us all for this little shit goblin has figured out how to open cupboards and nothing is safe anymore.
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Hi Twitter,
Would you play this game?🐴✉
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important gamedev PSA: pretty much all animated horse assets for Unreal and Unity are bad none of this is how horses work
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Since everyone is having quality hot takes about how gamedev actually works, let me assure you, it's
1. Have game idea
2. Add horses
3. Make the horses look and behave good
4. Add the rest of the features and visuals (some of them should relate to the horses)
5. Profit
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VIDEO GAME HORSE NEWS SCANDAL, fresh off the press, people!! 😱😱😱
Rockstar Games' "Early Access Content" claims to include a "Red Chestnut Arabian Horse", not realizing the horse in that video is neither a chestnut nor an Arabian.
Get a first look at the Red Dead Redemption 2 PlayStation 4 Early Access Content. Red Dead Redemption 2 is coming October 26. Pre-order now.
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@jeeyonshim
We have these, they're called "Dreambaby Twist n Lock" and our otherwise very determined and very persistent gremlin has not yet figured out the first step to opening them, let alone the second
Look who‘s laughing now, bitch
(We finally installed child safety locks after he even managed to pull a double wrapped rubber band off over the top of those handles)
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Worth mentioning again now that this tweet made my target audience explode: Aesir Interactive is hiring. You can join me in making good horse games. 🐴💪 Especially UE devs and tech artists are always needed, but all openings can be found here:
#gamejobs
Hi my name is Alice and I complained about all horse games being bad SO extensively that a 50-people company finally went "fine, make a better one" and put me in charge of their next project.
Doesn't stop feeling fucking wild, honestly
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1) This is the closest we've ever gotten to "Stardew Valley but horse-focused". It has a cozy little town, NPCs that give you quests and sell you stuff, collecting, selling and farming, but the economy is horse-based (training, competitions, breeding)
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So I just got lost for a while in
@Eosandy
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I have to post a bunch here because I don't trust you idiots to click the link yourselves:
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Lord help us all for this little shit goblin has figured out how to open cupboards and nothing is safe anymore.
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And that's about it! 🧵
Sorry this got long af but that's the actual truth behind "I complained so much that I got put in charge". And now go wishlist or preorder the game, links below this tweet. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Hi my name is Alice and I complained about all horse games being bad SO extensively that a 50-people company finally went "fine, make a better one" and put me in charge of their next project.
Doesn't stop feeling fucking wild, honestly
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For
#PitchYaGame
, may I introduce Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori
✉ 🐎play a courier rider in 13th century Mongolia
🏔🌳explore a vast and gorgeous open world
🐴💕train, tame, breed & care for your horses
➡ Wishlist, follow & sign up to playtest:
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this tumblr post and all the reactions in it that go "WAIT THAT'S AN ACTUAL ARTICLE????" are giving me LIFE 😂
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That makes so much sense. Especially if figuring out any formula for any graph ever gives you as much trouble as it does for me. I'm RTing this mostly in hopes that I'll remember to use it.
#unitytips
I don't know if other people do this but I use actual curves to define the game's progression/difficulty, it's pretty simple to do and so far seems to be working well for the sort of game I'm making
Here's how it works:
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Patch 1.1.4. Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch is out now (fast travel & performance improvements! see link!) and I'm going to take this opportunity to tell you about some COOL HORSE DETAILS that I love and appreciate in our game.
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I got this wool riding skirt mostly for warmth, but it *does* also make me feel like I'm in a fairytale so that's nice
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Me, 2min into
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Me, 40min into it: I can‘t BELIEVE she‘d move in with a dude who won‘t even make space for her diploma on his wall what about her ART this is NEVER going to work out 😭
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THE MANE QUEST HAS BEGUN 🐴🎮
After many twitter threads and many crowdsourced horse puns, today marks the launch of my news/review website dedicated to horses in video games and video games about horses.
Go tell your friends.
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Making cozy games???? Making them small and finishing them in short dev cycles??? Maintaining a consistent studio character across 5 games released in ~2 years???? Absolutely inspirational tbh, gamedev goals.
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Thank you for reading, have fun following this journey along with me ❤❤
and now:
1) follow
@EloiseGameDev
2) read my interview with her on TMQ
3) give the demo a try for yourself on Steam!!
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HEY YOU DO YOU LIKE GAMES??
NARRATIVE GAMES?
GAMES WITH GIRL PROTAGONISTS?
GAMES DEVELOPED BY WOMEN?
GAMES WITH VERY CUTE ART AND WRITING?
GAMES WITH INNOVATIVE MECHANICS?
GAMES ABOUT GROWING UP?
Check out Letters, pledge them some sparkly moneys & RT
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We're at a point now where developers of new horse games flat out tell me "we tried to do what you said horse games should do" and I gotta admit I fucking love this
NEW ARTICLE: “We wanted to build a horse game that people could be passionate about” – The Inspirations, Research and Future Plans behind Star Equestrian – with
@FoxieVentures
😍
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@BenSjavik
Aww, thank you!! Check out the latest dev diary ln Steam for some more info on horse care and training!!!
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and here's the full story behind the discontented horse girl to horse game creator pipeline
Ok so since "I complained until I got put in charge" is a mild simplification (and bc I have 2k new followers), let me actually summarize how I went from being disappointed in all horse games to basically being the internet authority on horse games and in charge of making one. 🧵
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we're feeling a bit intense today after being utterly abandoned* for a week
*having a cat sitter come by twice a day
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The post I made about Horse Tales on /r/girlgamers on Thursday is now the number one most upvoted post on the subreddit 😵
These past few days have been WILD my people
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I always liked horses and started riding as soon as we found a suitable barn. Always just loved how they looked, how they moved, everything. I've been taking weekly riding lessons for most of my life, and never really wanted to own a horse myself so far.
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In the meantime, I played other video games and loved it when they had horses in them, as you can tell from the massive Ass Creed fan phase that I had
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And I still maintain that Assassin's Creed 3 would have been SUCH a perfect opportunity to feature horses as a more prominent part of the gameplay or narrative (it had a lot of countryside area for an AC game, it had those homestead missions...) and instead we got... this
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3) I adore the creator's overall business strategy. "Keep stuff small and finish it" is something SO MANY CREATORS should take to heart and here goes Éloise, doing exactly that and building an excellent and viable company portfolio in the process.
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oh btw I also always drew horses all the time, though art isn't one of the areas I've really been able to keep up with as an adult
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And I'm far from done: Horse Tales will raise the bar for this niche, but it's not perfect and there's about a thousand things I'd want to add, and a hundred other horse games I'd like to make. And tbh watch me, I might.
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The Polygon video about horse animation is bringing me a lot of joy, and I am happy that I got to make this point. Good horses make your games better, people, so put some thought into them ❤❤
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I've made a new friend recently (his name's Ollero and he's a buckskin PRE) and I'm living some horse girl dream shit rn I'm telling y'all.
this horse is stupidly pretty and I get to go on trail rides with him twice a week now.
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This is 100% going to be me at gamescom btw
THOSE GAMES HAVE HORSES *IN* THEM AURE BUT THEY‘RE NOT ACTUALLY *ABOUT* HORSES AND ALSO THEY ALWAYS HAVE SOME WEIRD SHIT GOING ON WITH THEIR ANIMATIONS AND THE HORSES JUST FEEL MORE LIKE A SPEED UPGRADE THAN A LIVING CREATURE AND THERE‘S JUST REALLY A LOT OF US WHO ARE LOOKING F—
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During that time I also started commenting more about game horses on twitter: I always HAD lots of game horse opinions, but for the first time in my life I realized that people (even otherwise non-horse interested people) wanted to hear them??
VIDEO GAME HORSE NEWS presents:
Red Dead Redemption 2 Gameplay Trailer Horse Accuracy Analysis
Alternative title: THE HYPE IS ON, BITCHES
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When I was ~11 or so, I fell in love with a horse game called Mein Pferdehof and kept coming back to play it even though the late game was lacking and the sequel looked not great. (I also played a lot of Sims at this point)
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The Ranch of Rivershine won't be a perfect horse game and it won't have everything everyone always asks for, and that is WONDERFUL. It knows what it is and what to focus on, and I have a lot of faith in the resulting product.
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SUPRISE, I GOT TO WRITE A HORSE GAME ARTICLE FOR POLYGON 😱
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Things Hideo Kojima does that I don't care about:
- develop and vaguely hype up death stranding
- tell people they'll be ashamed of their words and deeds for questioning the tiddies
Things Hideo Kojima does that I fully support and appreciate:
- retweeting my friend's cosplay
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I snatched them both up and went „quick, take a picture“ at my bf, bc they do NOT tolerate this for more than a few seconds.
These boys turned 2 on Thursday 🙌
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Yo, people in
#gamedev
/
#indiedev
: there's a good chance your timeline is overwhelmingly male if you follow a lot of gamedevs - I know mine is, even though I make a conscious effort to follow more women. Maybe you should check out the
#girlsbehindthegames
tag and follow everyone.
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GUESS WHO JUST FUCKING WENT THERE AND FINISHED HER BOOK, FUCKERS 🥳🥳🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉🍾🍾🍾🍾🍾
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Me: I want to be a serious horse game journalist and if I want to keep talking to publishers/developers of horse games and achieve anything, I will have to maintain a professional appearance and be polite about my concerns. 😊
Also me:
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obviously the true winner of the game awards are the bisexuals, thank you
gays are you ok (you're not ok)
Melinoë - Judy Alice Lee
Moros - Sterling Sulieman
Apollo - Colin Ryan
Nemesis - Becca Q. Co
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With Unity editor scripting, it's always the little things that make me the happiest. Like this one.
#gamedev
#indiedev
#unity3d
#madewithunity
#swissgames
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Getting enough likes on this that I feel the need to once again tell y'all to wishlist or preorder if you haven't already! Steam link below, check your local games store for console/retail editions
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Even a basic loop like "you collect different types of hay/grain and either feed them to your horses or sell them for coins" is something that horse games like these usually just don't have
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Get in people, we're learning something about horse genetics today and why this foal would be impossible irl even though the artist took great care with their reference imagery
Someone from the community found a "realistic" foal model to purchase on TurboSquid that makes a really interesting mistake. Let's see who can spot it.
(open tweet for solution)
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When I was ~19 years old, I realized that my local art university (
@zhdk
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This wasn't about horses, I just wanted to join the games industry.
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Making, exhibiting and talking about Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch feels like the culmination of my game dev journey, built up over... well, that first photo is from when I was 8.
Honestly kind of amazing that my horse game is playable in the same hall as like Ubisoft and Banda Namco stuff.
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fondly reminiscing about the time we found out our kittens absolutely fucking love broccoli
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Do you know anyone who's ever worked on horses in video games and might be up for an interview about it? Some RT's on this would be great! ❤️🐎🐴🎮
The Mane Quest needs your help!
We are looking for
#gamedev
people who had anything to do with adding horses to video games in any capacity. Have you ever worked on digital equines for an interactive medium, AAA, Indie, whatever? Get in touch!
RTs are appreciated!
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I‘ve been quiet on here because launch is going a bit rough, but we just got a second hotfix live that solves another bunch of urgent issues. 🙌🏼
Stay tuned for further updates, we‘re working on them 💪💪
Patch 1.1.2. is up for Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch!
Further bugfixes and improvements are WIP, stay tuned for more!
Thank you for your patience ❤
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