Post by rafa on Jul 11, 2006 4:48:16 GMT -5
YES, extremely.
The Official Googly Horse Association
The OGHA is an ancient SIM game that's actually coming around again. Googlies are little horses with extremely large eyes that can be bred, shown, and trained. They were created around 2000 and the first game opened in 2003. Unfortunately, I didn't have time and it soon closed. Now, three years later, it's back and better than last time.
Features:
-25 breeds, including QHs, Arabs, Paints, well, here's the current list
-Items that change your Googly's appearance & stats
-Very easy to start your own shows and enter shows that others start
-Easy training system that allows lots of creativity on the player's part
-Stats and Personality Traits that are affected by game play and change the way your horse responds to training, showing, & breeding.
-Stable owners can train other people's Googlies for money
-Players are able to create their own selective breeds
-Breeding high generation Googlies results in unusual horse colors (perlino, champagne, brindle) as well as fantasy colors and patterns (green leopard spots, blue giraffe patches, etc etc).
-Proboards for showing, selling, training, asking questions, and socializing with other players.
-Site for stable pages, horse pages, vet services, Googly adoption, shop, etc.
-Owner that is very open to ideas and suggestions.
-Owner that is doodling new breeds as we speak.
Coming Soon
-More breeds (make suggestions if you'd like)
-Glass Bottle & Feather (items) unveiled
-Googly Expo (completely unique Googlies & items for raffle, along with an outrageous number of shows)
-Associations for popular breeds and disciplines
-Contests
After owning OGHA V1, I realize this game is going to require a lot of work. I get to update horse and stable pages, add horses, and plan large shows & events. Plus there's extremely random events (think Andalusians turning into Llamas and Arabians turning into green Shetlands random) and fiddling with stats. So I'm going to need help. And, more so than that, ideas.
I am looking for
-Members
-People that know a bit about horses
-People to help color
-People with ideas
-Honest people to help judge shows
-A trustworthy someone to Co-Own (update site, moderate proboards, color if possible, think of ideas, advertise, etc)
-Sister sites (other RPGs & SIMs, preferrably horse related)
You have a few different options in this game. First off, You generally get your horses from Clover Field (the adoption place). Then you can begin training them and showing them, striving to get the highest number of points and getting your stallion/mare's name out there. Or you can start buying items for them and training them, hoping for perfect stat points so that when you breed the foal will be perfect. Then there's always the selective breeding, which is a feature even I'm excited about. Whether you're trying to breed your own for points or stats or extreme and bizarre colors, training for other people, or creating your own signature Googly breed, you've got lots of options.
This is the first place I'm advertising at. The site is fully explorable (my stable is even up on the member's page (yes, I'm definitely playing my own SIM game this time around)), fully readable, and completely joinable if you're into this sort of thing. There are examples of what Googlies look like on the main page and above. Each breed has a unique base; mares are pretty and stallions determined. I have dabbled with this particular website on and off since 2003; it's been thought out and opened at a time I felt best.
Now if you all could meander right this way I sure would appreciate it.
Even if you don't join, comments and suggestions would be fantastic. And if you know of a place where I can advertise and people might be interested, I'd love to know where. I haven't owned a horse SIM in ages and I'm kinda out of the loop.
This is extremely long post is why I shouldn't be allowed to talk about things that I put too much thought into, like the OGHA.