Horse Phenomena Freshens Up Gameplay
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9th Jun 2013 •
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Horse Phenomena, an equine sim founded in 2009, has just added a revolutionary gameplay aspect to their system.
Horse Phenomena was originally created to be a “throwback” to the style of the original Horseland website before it underwent major changes that caused a lot of player unrest. The sim itself is based on a commonly used animal sim gameplay idea—the point system. The basic idea behind this type of sim is as follows: the owner of animals (horses and dogs are popular in sims like this) can enter their barns or kennels in “shows”, which in turn grant the entrant a certain number of points based on how they perform in the show. The more shows you enter your animal in, the more points it earns. The more points the animal earns, the higher it is ranked.
Sims have been using this particular system for a long time, and there’s been some discussion as to whether or not the gameplay has been getting somewhat stagnant.
To spice things up, Sam, the admin of Horse Phenomena, has decided to add an aspect that is somewhat unusual to point-based sim games: an achievements system. The way it will work is simple. For every predetermined milestone a player passes in “player points” (earned by playing often and having high-ranking animals and a successful barn), achievements will be awarded in the form of “badges” that will display on a person’s barn page for bragging rights. In addition to achievements acquired through gameplay, there will be those that moderators and admins can award to players if they deem you a good citizen. Some, Sam says, you’ll have to find on your own by playing the game.
Horse Phenomena has been consistently growing and developing as a sim game in recent years, and this may be the final step in putting themselves on the map as a major competitor.
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RainbowNerd01
I went on this just now and sure I should've gave it a better chance but as soon as I saw my own homepage I instantly knew they had the same layout as Horse Land do and that threw me off. I don't like the fact that you have no option to choose the horses colour either which sucks. If they gave more options and brought more life to it I would've gave it a chance.
I went on this just now and sure I should've gave it a better chance but as soon as I saw my own homepage I instantly knew they had the same layout as Horse Land do and that threw me off. I don't like the fact that you have no option to choose the horses colour either which sucks. If they gave more options and brought more life to it I would've gave it a chance.
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