Horse Reality

Summary
Horse Reality is a free-to-play realistic horse management game where you can manage your own horse breeding estate on one of six real-world continents.

Game Design
Realistic static 2D art. Each breed has its own unique visuals, with different graphics for mares, stallions, and foals. Coats are based on real life genetics.

Gameplay
Players manage their own estate on one of the six available continents, setting their own breeding goals. The primary breeding goals across the player base are aimed towards improving the genetic potental (GP) within a breed, whether overall or for one of the disciplines, or improving the conformation score. Many aspects of the gameplay are still under development, and the game is currently working on transitioning across to "V2".

Currencies
Horse Reality has four seperate currencies - Horse Reality Coins (HRC), Delta Points (DP), Foundation Tickets (FT) and Wildlife Tickets (WT). One can exchange DP, FT or WT for HRC by selling it to other players using the Currency Exchange.

Horse Reality Coins are the main currency used throughout the game for various features including traveling, buying horses, vet visits and more. Players start with 75,000 HRC when making an account. Delta Points are the premium currency of Horse Reality. They can be purchased for real money or earned in-game through stud fees or by winning show champion in conformation shows. Foundation Tickets can be used to buy a horse from the Foundation, or for stud fees. Wildlife Tickets can be used to attempt to catch a horse from one of the open Wildlife Parks, or for stud fees.

Horses
There are currently 27 breeds of horses in-game, with plans to add many more.

Purchasing Horses
Horses can be purchased either from the Foundation, caught at a Wildlife Park or bought from another player.

Foundation Each continent has a Foundation, where you can purchase a horse for 1FT and 5,000 HRC. Every continent has a different set of foundation mares and stallions per breed, which varies the available genetic potential total, conformation stats and colours horses from each foundation can have. Currently, all players see the same horses available, but an update to the Foundation is planned where foundation parent horses will be removed and every player will have their own set of foundation horses only visible to them, with the available stats being randomly generated.

Wildlife Parks Each continent has a Wildlife Park, where in exchange for 1 WT, you have 20 attempts to catch a wild horse. Currently Wildlife Parks are only open on three continents - Europe, North America & Australia. The available breeds vary depending on the continent. Europe has the Camargue and Exmoor Pony, North America has the Mustang, and Australia has the Brumby.

 Marketplace  The Marketplace is where one can buy horses from other players with HRC. Players can chose to either set a fixed amount they would like to sell a horse for, or put their horses up for auction for up to 7 days with a minimum bid amount.

Genetic Potential
All horses are born with a genetic potential (GP). The genetic potential cannot be changed throughout a horses lifespan. A horses GP can be anywhere between 0 - 1000, and it made up of 10 stats between 0 - 100. The individual stats influence what competition discipline the horse would be best for.

Conformation
All horses have 12 conformation areas, except Icelandic Horses who have 14. These determine what score a horse can reach in conformation shows. The areas can either be Poor, Below Average, Average, Good or Very Good; each with a hidden number behind the word which determines the top possible conformation score. Competition disciplines use different conformation areas to determine the possible competition discipline score.

Breeding
Horses can be bred once they reach three years of age, and can only be bred to others of the same breed. A successful pregnancy is between 13 - 17 real life days long, however there is a chance of miscarriage on either the second or fourth day of pregnancy. The reasons for this are fertility, being embryonic lethal or a random 5% risk included for all pregnancies.

Colour Genetics
Horse Reality uses almost true-to-life genetics to determine the colour of the horses, with some exceptions due to the understanding of the genetics at the time of development. Colours available within a breed are determined by real life availability, not by following the accepted colours within the real life breed registry. Some breeds are missing genes known to be within the breed, and there are plans to add them, but there are development delays in doing so.

Training & Competitions
Horses must complete Basic Training before a competition discipline can be chosen for them to specialise in. There are four stages to Basic Training, and between five and ten stages depending on the discipline chosen. Each discipline looks at various GP stats and conformation areas to determine how well each horse could perform. Physical Fitness, tack, care and training percentage also have an influence on the score achievable when entering competitions.