The Adventures of Horse the Horse: A game that's bad on purpose

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Hi, welcome to my AoHtH devlog :smiley:

What is this game?
The Adventures of Horse the Horse is a pet simulator game where you take care of a horse.

My main goal for this project is to make a game that is bad on purpose. Everything will be incredibly low effort except for the gameplay.

Progress so far
After about two days of development, here's what I have:

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(That's a cloud up there, by the way)

The bar on the right is supposed to be a hunger meter. Eventually it will overflow the bounding box until the hunger value hits 15.

Future Plans
More statistics and some compressed-to-nonexistence background music.

As always, it's on GitHub if you want to check out the source code.

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import "horse"

Quality code, off to a good start!

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Apr 17

From the 14th to now, I've been slowly making progress:

playdate-20220417-195230

Added
Thirst bar
Happiness meter
Outline of action selection

Changed
statusBar.lua to just straight status.lua
horseStatus var changed from int to str

Removed
(nothing)

(Note: testing is happening this week, so I might not work on AoHtH until this weekend)

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Apr 28

Yep, I still care about this project.

taohth
(sorry that the gif is a bit slow, my computer is trash)

Added
menu/menu icons
settings
save/load support (saveload.lua)
sound handler/recorder (sounds.lua)
random idle sound playing
crank control (cranking changes sun rotation and cloud position)
status bar icons
setStatusText function
refreshValues function

Changed
tick system
local statText is now global
menu position

Removed
(nothing)

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I like this game. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun when it is finished!

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Jun 12, 2022

VERSION 1.0 OF THE ADVENTURES OF HORSE THE HORSE IS OUT!!

Added
tutorial (tutor.lua)
epilepsy check (epilepsy.lua)
recbeep.wav
time of day (sun & moon)
an end
not-as-low-quality music
horse renaming feature
playing with horse
talking with horse
background music
horse idle sound saving
new sound system
title card

Changed
fixed water image
updated readme with icon tutorial
condensed sky.lua into "cleaner" code
changed how the happiness meter was handled (now saves more console memory)

Removed
(nothing)

It is on itch now, too!

(EDIT: I'm going to take a break from horse the horse for a while, but still let me know about bugs and improvements you'd like me to make and I'll try to make them happen :playdate: )