Gameplay is quite fun, funny the interactions too at times
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Jury - Game Design | #6 | n/a | n/a |
| Jury - Player Experience | #6 | n/a | n/a |
| Jury - Asset Implementation | #11 | n/a | n/a |
| Audience's Choice | #11 | 3.131 | 3.190 |
Ranked from 79 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Comments
Very nice game! Pretty addicting indeed. I did get one million at the end. Seems like the best strat is to feed an apple to the pony with the highest chances aka lowest payouts, and bet half of your savings on her; so I found myself basically never using other methods of manipulation. Also I wish there was a more convinient way to enter your stakes, because when you're operating on hundreds of thousands it becomes very cumbersome to increase 1k at a time.
A really addictive laid-back game. I've found myself many times rooting for one specific horse and despise another (to the point where I actually saved money just to make her disappear >:)c )
I loved how the random events not only are funny, but also really diverse and impactful in the outcome of the race (especially the ones that make your horse disappear), to the point where no matter how much you manipulate the odds, you'll never know the final result.
Overall, it was a fun time. Good job here :)
PS: I understood that reference in one of the horse girls
I want you to know I came back to this multiple times. It just tickles my brain in a nice way to bet on cute pony girls. Got to $2,360,027 before... I lost everything :P
I wish there was a way to speed up the text animation or press a button that displays all the text, I read faster than the text could animate. And I think the trainers shop needs text doesn't need to be animated unless the full text is displayed. Lots of funny dialogue.







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