MY HORSE by Sam
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  About
 

My Horse is a game that players can train their own horse. After training, users can take part in competition with other players through network.

This game points to the new generation "Play Anytime and Anywhere" game pattern. That is, a game pattern that utilize your PDA when standalone. Meanwhile, it also attracts players to make fun together through networks (including wireless networks).

About the Author:

This game is currently developed by Sam Sze, a guy lives in Hong Kong. He likes configuring kernels, create applications and playing games on powerful/interesting PDAs. He is currently busy in his weekends on his Intel StrongArm Puppy(similiar to Assabet) board and a CirrusLogic ARM development boards. Sam has a M.Sc degree in Computer Science and a B.Eng degree in Electronic Engineering.

Should you have any idea or comment on this game, please feel free to contact him at myhorse_sam@yahoo.com

Further Development:

  • Embedded "DNA" in different binary downloads that features different horse characteristics.
  • Horse "DNA" and attributes encryption
  • Horse body growing capabilities
  • Sound effects

 

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QHorse v1.0

SHARP Zaurus SL-5500 Qtopia Palmtop Environment (QPE)

Freeware

  • Standard reference implementation.
  • 24-bits color
  • Peer to peer competition
  • Status illustration in barchart
  • Demonstrated in CeBit 2002

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Horse v1.0

Motorola Accompli A6288/A388 J2ME Midlet

Freeware

  • Multiplayer with a centralized server
  • Racing through public mobile networks (e.g. GPRS)
  • An award winning game in Hong Kong

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MyHorse (under development)

Simens 6688i/SL45i J2ME Midlet

  • Will be advised soon ...
  • Vibration capabilities
  • Tones

 

 

  Training

 

 

For training your horse, it is done at offline. That means, online connection is not necessary. we currently support four activities: Eat, Sleep, Run and Jump. Query the Status of the horse is also available. You can view the horse’s Name, Age, Muscle, Fat, Power and Spirit compositions.

Ask your horse to do the activity you like. Eating is the way to absorb nutrition. However, the food is absorbed as Fat. Too much Fat is not good for health. So, doing some exercise like Running can convert Fat into Muscle and increase the horse’s Power. Beware, doing the same thing continuous will be harmful to the horse. It needs Sleep as well. The most challenging exercise perhaps is Jumping , you need to click “HOP!” at the menu bar to jump over obstacles. If you make all success, it highly increase the horse spirit.

 

Training Screen Shot, horse running at the hill side (x86 Emulation of QHorse)
Examine the horse's status (x86 Emulation of QHorse)
 
  Racing

 

 

Your horse can take part in a race with a randomly selected local computer horse or any other horse through TCP/IP network. For networked competition, select yourself as a server to wait for any challengers to connect. Of course, you can select yourself as a client, enter the hostname or IP address of the machine acting as the server.

The race with start very soon after successful connection. The racecourse is a 1000M track with a Penguin judge that symbols Linux. Please note that a number of signs are hanging around the racecourse.

 

Horse Racing Started (x86 Emulation of QHorse)
Cool! The red horse wins the race. Note the penguin judge holds the flag of the winning color (x86 Emulation of QHorse)
 
  FAQ
 
Still nothing there. Please send any question to myhorse_sam@yahoo.com