as of tomorrow, Horses of Hoofprint Bay will be featured in Steam's Animal Fest sale and I am INSANELY excited to see how much visibility that actually results in. I'm trying to keep expectations low because I know the bulk of traffic goes to demos and discounted games, but still 👀👀👀

I'm working on my Ranch of Rivershine review, so I read this interview again and I would very much like everyone to read it because it is honestly so inspiring, and I want every other game developer to learn from Éloise and make good horse games thank you www.themanequest.com/blog/2025/7/...

Breaking news on this fine Sunday morning: after about a year of living in a flat with these heating units, Kiano has figured out he can lie on them and they‘re warm

Is #pitchyagame a thing over here? Let me (once again) introduce Horses of Hoofprint Bay: 🏡2D Stable Management 🐴Horse care, training & breeding 🏆Ride in competitions for prizes 🎨100% hand-drawn and made by horse girls

Loved scoring the trailer for Horses of Hoofprint Bay! 🤩🎶🐎 Big thanks to @thoglistudios.com for bringing me on board!

I'm not sure my non-horsey audience is appreciating what is happening in this clip. Are people generally aware that a) horses are social animals and groom each other, i.e. scratch each other's backs with their mouths and b) that that behavior has probably never been represented in a video game?

I'm so hyped for this! Played the shit out of Mein Pferdehof back in the day 😍

Oh that‘s adorable 👀

Folks I’m here to tell you this game is going to knock your socks off your fetlocks 🐴🐴🐴

We hear it's #pitchyagame time, so let us introduce HERDLING: 🦬 Travel with a herd of weird creatures 🏔️ Journey to the mountains 🍂 Leave society behind 🌳 This is a game you play for the ✨vibes ✨ Also it has ~94% positive reviews and was just nominated for several awards so go for it?

Is #pitchyagame a thing over here? Let me (once again) introduce Horses of Hoofprint Bay: 🏡2D Stable Management 🐴Horse care, training & breeding 🏆Ride in competitions for prizes 🎨100% hand-drawn and made by horse girls

Today's hoofprint bayposting efforts are an introduction of our team and project on the girlgamer subreddit 🥰 old.reddit.com/r/GirlGamers...

Our daily wishlists have been dropping over the week since the initial announcement, but I saw a clear uptick again from the posts I made yesterday so now I‘m unfortunately confirmed in my conviction to never shut up about the cool game I‘m working on 😔

Have you blessed any former or current horse girls among your acquaintances with knowledge about our horse game announcement yet today? 😌 You should tag someone here who might not have seen this yet 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwCP...

Unfortunately I’ve been laid off today from Square Enix, so if anyone has leads for any Community or Social positions please let me know. I’m just tired and heartbroken.

I did not do this on purpose but I suppose I should act like I did 😭

In reaction to our game announcement, we gor like 2-3 people saying something like „oh nice, my kids will enjoy this!“ What we got dozens and dozens of times though were comments along the lines of „FINALLY something like the game I used to love, this will hear my inner child“ ❤️❤️

Our daily wishlists have been dropping over the week since the initial announcement, but I saw a clear uptick again from the posts I made yesterday so now I‘m unfortunately confirmed in my conviction to never shut up about the cool game I‘m working on 😔

it's 12k views now and honestly I have no clue where they keep coming from because I haven't shared the trailer anywhere else the past few days. Are we getting.... organic youtube traffic? Or maybe the 1 million people who played My Horse Farm in 2003 are just really THAT ready for a nostalgia trip

hey so have you heard about the 2d stable management game that I'm working on together with a tiny dev team that actually met in my community and decided to make this project because I've been telling everyone about this particular business case for years?

Having a swiss pocket knife in your everyday backpack at all times seems like a real smart idea right up until the moment where the person reminding you that it‘s there is airport security

Having a swiss pocket knife in your everyday backpack at all times seems like a real smart idea right up until the moment where the person reminding you that it‘s there is airport security

me but it's horse games instead of menswear 🥰

I‘ve been outside for 5min tops and I already saw a tiny lizard who just caught a tinier caterpillar. Lil guy froze in place so I could take pictures 🥹🥹

I don‘t think most debut indie games from two person teams get 10k views and 500+ comments on their announcement trailer in less than a week but tell me again how horse games are too niche or require a red dead budget to interest the target audience 😌😌😌

I don‘t think most debut indie games from two person teams get 10k views and 500+ comments on their announcement trailer in less than a week but tell me again how horse games are too niche or require a red dead budget to interest the target audience 😌😌😌

I‘ve been outside for 5min tops and I already saw a tiny lizard who just caught a tinier caterpillar. Lil guy froze in place so I could take pictures 🥹🥹

"it's okay I'll just power through autumn blues and then take a long break over christmas/new years" says woman recently recovered from burnout who has only taken about a week's worth of time off this year so far. you know, like an idiot.

I'm taking a much-needed break today and *not* thinking about the myriad tasks piling up in the background and instead I will now go outside to the garden with one of my cats and then maybe play some more domekeeper while listening to Ashnikko interviews and sex history deep dive video essays 🥰🥰🥰

God I love Ashnikko I don't even listen to much of her music but I would listen to her talk for hours. This interview is bizarre because the two hosts are all so obviously flabbergasted by the kinky queerness of her art, but she just steamrolls them with being herself www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUyG...

Our programmer isn't on social media, but Anna here is the artist who is bringing Horses of Hoofprint Bay to life in all its lovingly handdrawn nostalgic glory, and you should follow her if you want cute art in your feed 👇👇

the response has been so overwhelmingly positive so far 🥺 I really didn't know what to expect, but it seems we hit the nerve that we wanted to hit! 🐎

someone in my 40k member horse game facebook group asked if there were any similar groups for games with dogs and I encouraged them to just start one themself! A few weeks passed and now they reached out for tips on how to get started and I'm just like YES PLEASE and sent them a wall of text

I haven't done any hoofprint bayposting today yet so let me take this opportunity to a) remind you to wishlist/share if you haven't already and b) brag about the fact that we got over 2k wishlists just 3 days after announcing, without any press or showcase coverage, using only my horse game reach

if you don't think this is funny you should send it to any woman aged 25-35 because I guarantee like half of them have fond memories of the game on the left and would kill to play the game on the right

🐴 ANNOUNCEMENT TRAILER 🐴 Horses of Hoofprint Bay – a lovingly hand-drawn 2D point and click barn buildup game where you take care of horses, train them, and compete for prize money! Breed adorable foals, hire and manage staff, and build the stable of your dreams!

I have several other important deadlines today but I can't stop hoofprint bayposting it'd be a shame if y'all were to reward such unwise behavior with a lot of wishlists and or newsletter subscriptions and follows for @thoglistudios.com store.steampowered.com/app/3727090/...

other game publishers: ok we'll do one (1) social media post for every main marketing beat me with hoofprint bay: TRY AND MAKE ME SHUT UP ABOUT THIS GAME NOW THAT IT'S REVEALED I DARE YOU

frantically searching for "how many wishlists in the first 48h are really good" kinds of benchmarks because I want to know just how brag-worthy our numbers are

1. I love this! 2. Can someone team up with me and do this for Dog's Life

you vs the guy she tells you not to worry about (but it's a horse game from 2003 vs our 2026 re-imagining of it)

did you hear about the time I gave a talk at a local game festival about an old horse game that I loved and can no longer play and then the upload of that talk on youtube butterfly effected into this game getting made seven years later?

sometimes the creators of your childhood favorite games refuse to re-release or remaster their 20yo game despite it being a massive success at the time and you just have to take matters into your own hand 😌

I just finished this book yesterday and it is SO FUCKING GOOD. It's everything I want from romance, and that's rare because I usually complain about almost every romance I read because they feel rushed or flat or too fluffy or otherwise underwhelming. NOT THIS ONE THO 💖💖💖

sometimes the creators of your childhood favorite games refuse to re-release or remaster their 20yo game despite it being a massive success at the time and you just have to take matters into your own hand 😌

Hello I try telling literally everyone so this isn‘t on me 😇 But glad you found it, welcome to the horse game side of the internet 😄❤️

watch our trailer and wishlist Horses of Hoofprint Bay on Steam if you haven't already I am going to bed and I would love to wake up an impressive number of wishlists 😇

Check out this lovely article Alice wrote about us! can you believe that origin story?! everything fell into place perfectly 💚

a few years ago I gave a talk lamenting how my childhood favorite horse game isn't playable anymore. Around a few corners, that talk on youtube has led to this re-imagining happening now 🥹 www.themanequest.com/blog/2025/10...

Here's how this whole adventure came to be PLEASE have a look the origin story is kind of amazing okay