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The Mane Quest 🐴🎮 Horses in Video Games 🎮🐴
@themanequest.com
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The Mane Quest is a website dedicated to "horse games" and the portrayal of horses in video games. Always happy to learn about and give feedback to upcoming games with horses! 💖 themanequest.com created by Alice Ruppert malicedafirenze.bsky.social
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@maliceruppert: not disclosing that these are all store-bought assets while talking about how realistic your game is gonna be and using genAI for the profile pic / key art sure is a choice
@OpenSaddle: thanks for your comment!
just to add some context: the assumption that everything shown is store content isn’t accurate.
genuine question – how do you see asset origin relating to realism?
@maliceruppert: the horse model and character model are premade assets though, right?
My issue with the wording in your description is that you're advertising "Realistic muscle movement depending on gait and speed", but as far as I'm aware those are features of the asset, not of your own work on top. It's just really disingenuous to advertise your "progress" without disclosing how much of it you've built on ready-made building blocks. It looks like you're deliberately obscuring that part of the process so that people who don't happen to recognize individual horse assets are easily impressed by what you already have to show.
But then again, using generative AI for profile pic and key art is a surefire sign that you don't respect artists and their work.
For what it's worth, I didn't realize this was connected to Riding Out and I don't blame you for starting fresh. But what you've shown here looks and sounds exactly like every other overambitious and vague horse game project that I try to warn people off from getting invested in on The Mane Quest.
If you genuinely want to build trust, ditch the genAI and build an actual prototype that's fun while it's blocks or sketches, and then people will absolutely forgive the strorebought horse animations.
@OpenSaddle: i think we’re talking past each other a bit here.
first, just to clarify: the assumption that even the character or clothing assets are not original work is not correct.
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![a bingo card titled "horse game title bingo". The squares are: my [horse term], star, wild, literally contains 'horse game', completely different game was published under the same name on a handheld platform, land, race z instead of s, adventures, ride/riding, 25+ characters, random famous equestrian, horse (free space), completely unrelated titles in different languages/regions, equestrian, exclamation mark!, horseshoe in title logo, equi-something, world, stable, horse girl franchise branding, club, champion, secret, jumping](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t3mdbmz2n5mc3yx6qlh6znjx/bafkreifut3gorfwkkkyb6ugjay23ae5tbt2zzu4ia5mpkk34rwo5bbh6ii)
