Pony World

Summary
A light life simulation game in the World of Ponies. Pony World is a game for children that comes from Poland. It was included in Idigicon's compilation 5 Games For Girls.

Pony World is filled with the fun and adventures of a lovely pony you choose and control yourself. You are the one who decides whether that pony leads a peaceful life with his family, taking care of his wife and children, or whether he devotes himself to working, farming, or having fun.

The game also gives you the chance to try many additional minigames such as the beauty contest, races, or exciting memory games. Money gained by your pony will allow you to extend and decorate your farm. You can plant evergreen trees and fruit that will supply you with food, beautiful fountains, and colorful umbrellas as well as decorative stones, flowers, bushes, and plenty of different and fascinating scenery. What's more, if you have a desire for trading you can develop your farm for profitable agriculture. Or you can just enjoy your life with visits to the disco or theatre every day, launch fireworks on the farm or play football and hopscotch. The wide variety of choices and developments will give you plenty of entertainment.

When you enter the Pony World: think about your pony's career and decide on his job as a hospital manager, juggler, or a magician turn the farm into the most beautiful dreamland or create a beneficial business from growing fruit and crops participate in beauty contests, races, and memory games take care of your pony's needs: keep him clean, fed, and happy meet other ponies in parks and develop your network of contacts invite other ponies to the restaurant, coffee house, or theatre - it might be the start of a love story get married and start a family go to the forest and pick mushrooms, or maybe some berries? care about the look of the pony - change his hairstyle, hair color, tail and even give him a tattoo let your pony play ball, hopscotch and admire the fireworks the daily newspaper will give you news from the ponies' town, the weather forecast, theatre plays and job offers And all of that only in Pony World!

Game Design
This game is not the typical pony game where the player feeds, grooms, and trains a pony to race or jump fences. This is more of a management game like 'The Sims' than a horse training simulation. There are five scenarios to be played here. (It helps when reading the following to know that ponyleons are the game's equivalent of cash) The first scenario is the tutorial. It is short but it is also open-ended. Single: Here the player takes on Kevin, a pony who lives on his own. The task is to help Kevin find a lady friend and to do this the player must explore locations so that Kevin can meet other ponies while developing Kevin's home and career. Millionaires: Two ponies want to make a lot of ponyleons by building up their farm. Single Lady: Kate wants to live on a farm with her lifetime partner. The problem is she has not found him yet. Baby: James and Lily have just got married and want a little pony of their own, a pony who will become the future racing champion. Each scenario starts with one or more ponies. These ponies must be fed and watered, to do this the player either grows their own food which can be stored and eaten or sold for ponyleons. Additional income can be earned by getting a job, these are advertised in the local paper each day or by winning mini-games such as quizzes or races. With their ponyleons the ponies can upgrade their stable, buy new equipment such as a shower or grooming room, or toys, or food. Buildings can also be upgraded and additional carrot and cabbage fields can be purchased. Ponies can also use their ponyleons to go out to the theatre or other venue, a list of current activities is advertised in the local paper too.

The ponies have their needs and these are shown by on-screen status bars and a more detailed view of their life is shown on a statistics screen.

System Requirements & Compatibility
Requirements: CPU: 1,2 GHz RAM: 512 MB SYSTEM: WINDOWS XP/VISTA/98SE/ME

Mac PowerPC/Intel Mac OSX 10.3.9+

Accessibility
Pony World is available for purchase on Steam under the name of its sequel, Pony World 2 for $2.99. The title screen is changed to reflect this marketing, but the game is the first, not the second. The Deluxe version of this game is available on the developer's website for $19.99.