A downloadable diy hrt for Windows

Welcome to DIY Horse Race Thing!

Based on, and made with love for, Horse Race Testing, by Blake Andrews (@snakesandrews)

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This is a small little toy that lets you make small maps with obstacles and walls, and then let little horses run around, until one bumps into the carrot and wins. The idea is to play with friends and bet who will end up winning! 

You can both make MAPS and HORSES. And i encourauge you to do so, and share them in the comments below!!!

My hope is that people will post a few custom things of their own, recordings of races, and stuff like that! I'd love to see that!


With time i hope to update this, maybe add a few of the custom horses and maps that are posted, and add more obstacles and things!


extra thing i forgot: 

You can move the starting positions with the numbers 1-7! 

And go fullscreen with F or f11!

And reset the level with R!

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CREDITS

Main inspiration:

-@snakesandrews (horse race testing)

Music:

-nico (TheWalkingMicrowave) y juanba (BuanJautista) musiquita y testeo <3

Assets:

-humanoide9000 (Victory Fanfare) (Freesounds)

-running white horse and white horse standing near plant @helenalopesph (Unsplash)

-white horse @victor_vector (Unsplash)

      

CUSTOM HORSES!

-@StrawberyChar (Squid)

-@fruitloopmonste (John)

-@_Ciozio_ (Strawberry Radiance, Acat, HowHungry)

-@Nomicro4u (Green Bean Horse)

-@BurhanMOffe (Ivy)

-@The_HomeIander (Lime Horse)

-@lhelpimLostl (Honse) 

-@vampiriccatgirl (Lewis Leslie) 

-@sparkie237 (Benevolent Teeth) 

-@Chazmuco (Chazmuco) 

-@pokopakku (Twerp Runtling)

-@pumpkinnkidd (Red Lizard) 

-@RoseProse (Retro)

-@GooseCultist (Gazpacho)

-@shroomy__rxcks (Dubious Self-Pity)

-@Skrimblo_Jr (Stupendous Radicalism)

-@Bdogedogg (Cappy Wittleknot, Eggy)

-@Rubyconstrictor (PoleJoint)

-@Welcome2Walmar (Gated Community System)

-@ObiCon (Obi, Ranae)

-@Long_Maru (Midnight Hot Pot)


Published 16 hours ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows
Rating
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
AuthorStopsignal
GenreSimulation

Download

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DIYHorseRaceThing.zip 31 MB

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I dunno nothing about the whole horse race thing - what I do know is this:

I like seeing my lil' eldritch blob sona wander around and fall over like a dummy. I ain't sorted out the RGB thingie, and it should just need a blank BG png.

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really really love this, but i was wondering if you could include the regular horses as templates for custom horses? would just be cool :)

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hey, is there a reason i could not start a race? the button just doesn't do anything

Hmm, do you have horses selected?

Maybe it bugged out, try saving the level, reloading (With R or reloading the game) and pressing the button!

ohh I get it

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Wildhunt Heathcliff from Limbus Company
download it here

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This little tool is amazing and i've been using it to make fun little race with horses that look like my friend, but one thing we very much agreed on is how the sound design in the races themselves is very loud/aggressive, sometimes being way stronger then the music! I wonder if an audio slider for music and sfx is in the plans, otherwise this rules asf

So i found a bug. (They’re solid, too!)

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Here is my contribution, best horse girl Taiki Shuttle. Download completed file here if you want, or just take this png and put a blank BG image in the files. RGB is 229,162,110.

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This is looking great! With all things that I end up liking, I want to share the few improvements I have. I know this game literally just came out so treat this as a giant list of criteria to tackle at whatever pace you want; I don't want to come off as demanding and/or pressure you into burnout.

HORSES
For the current horses, the only thing that I don't like is that Bullet'n Board has somehow lost his frog toes and he said he wants them back. Also Jovial transgressed back into a short dude when he used to be the tall boi and he don't appreciate it.
Of course, adding the nightmare horses would be cool (unless someone gets around to making them before you do).
Also, if possible, can there be a way to only show the horse's true name once they've won a race? Or at least make it toggleable from the start. This would of course need a way for the custom horse creator to add both names.
Lastly, how did you make the horse designs? I used Pixilart but I was wondering if you had any better suggestions? The only one I've made so far is called Dark Brigade (like the opposite of Light Brigade) and it's the template horse with an eye missing and RGB value 50-30-50

MAPS
For inbuilt maps, please get rid of the second-to-bottom tree in Hidden Forest I BEG. In all my testing it takes 50 years for a horse to get in that bottom section, and then most cases they leave soon after.
Since map making doesn't require artistic talent, I've started going back and making all the "canon" maps of HRT, and one thing to include if possible is different map sizes? The ones I've made so far work fine but somehow they feel a bit squashed?
Also PLEASE make it so that whatever map you have running saves after a race has ended. The amount of times I've forgotten to save and the map just completely reset without me saving it is embarrassing.
As for new maze themes, the vibrant red-orange-dark green scheme looks cool and a more "otherworldly" look for the Horror Horses. Maybe also classic space, water and desert themes.

OTHER
Firstly, a list of stuff I'd like to be able to customise/add on own stuff: Race Prize, Music, Ending Images, Ending Message, Decorations (maybe have decorations be shared between themes?).
A bouncing title like in the canon would be cool!
An option to randomly select horses to appear in a race, or at least randomly assign starting positions.
A key and gate pair, where one of the horses needs to collect the key in order for the gate to open; this will be open to all horses. Different variants could be a humble garden gate and key, a DANGER sign and hammer, a vault door passcode, and a door.... and a door knob.
LASTLY LASTLY, a way to bet on horses. I've made this vague on purpose since I don't have a specific ideal solution, but a way to keep track of your "winnings" would be engaging, especially with friends! Tying on to this, two records of horse victories; one for winning in that specific map and one total winnings (that resets when the game closes).

Sorry for all that, but again this is looking great so far and I await updates with great anticipation!

EDIT: Also what about an in-built way to record rounds? Also a way to speed up/slow down a round while it's happening.

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I saw someone reposted my Sonic sprite incorrectly, so i just wanted to put here the pngs directly.

For the rgb values i suggest:

R:0

G:30

B:151


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A bit confused on how to set the color of the horse on the victory screen for the characters without changing the whole character's color on the sliders section. Got a character made but just want to figure out that last part.

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For clarification sake I want it a light brown color but at the moment without messing with the BG sliders (and the character's race sprite color) it appears to be white by default. 

EDIT: I think I figured out just putting everything in the base image including the color, and leaving the BG.png blank works for my purposes.

I think that for now the colors of the horse in the end screen are only tied to the rgb value of the racing sprites. So for now i don't think it's possible to change the colors of the horse on the win screen separately.

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heres my horse his name is Flippancy Male Hue

This thing is peak!! Here have a shitty sonic horse Sega please dont kill me

Glad you liked my sprite, but please credit me if possible.  

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my custom horse Ghastly Bygone  (click the text to download him)

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can someone give me superstitional realism’s spritesheet (line only please) so i can make an accurate-looking remake of this guy          gr’s merald

I should actually have added their sprite sheets as well!

I'll do it when  I come back from the office

ok thx

his name is gr’s merald

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making it myself (lineart is done)

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coloured (hex code is #53DB0A, name is gr’s merald)

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As posted on twitter, here are the assets for Horase, the exact RGB for him is 224; 103; 76



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he looks fantastic hahahaha

10/10


I'll add all horses here when I do an update later!

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mediafire not working but heres a horse i made he is green

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vegas boy

YES he is awesome!!

keep them coming!! I'll add this one to the game when an update comes

how do i use it on mac do i need a windows emulator if that exists

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Use whisky or a parallels Windows vm / UTM Windows vm.

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Very slick! Runs nicely under Wine on Linux. Only thing that gave me pause was trying to work out how to exit while full-screened (had to alt-enter and click the X) but that might just be due to my smooth brain. Neat work.

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how do you change flag start positions?wish there was a keybind list somewhere

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with keys 1 to 7!!!

I had embarrasingly forgotten the top tip that should tell the player that. I just updated the game, and now it tells you!

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cool thx

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happy to be a part of this! the ui is great and clean and i love your style for the horses

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And thank you for helping! Hope some people try out the shark horse!!!