Trails of Hooves

Trails of Hooves 🐴 New cozy horse game incoming!
🕹 Indie dev
🌷 Based in The Netherlands
👶🏼 Still in early stages

07/08/2026

Feature Friday - Horse AI 🧡

For our first Feature Friday we wanted to dive into our Horse AI. Horses will display behaviour in the stables and pastures like moving around grazing, resting and running around. When a horse gets hungry or thirsty, they will walk around looking for grass, fodder and water.

Horses will bond with other horses and the player. There is a chance of horses not being very friendly with each other when their personalities clash, which makes them try to avoid each other and showcase their 'lovely' angry ears... When horses like each other, they will actively seek each other out and stay close.

It's all still a work in progress, but they already feel so alive! So much so that it took me the whole evening to capture the 'right' states to add to the video. They kept running around, not doing what I hoped they would do 🥲. Oh well...

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🎶 Cozy Room - abdipr

03/08/2026

While we're melting away in the summer heat, our digital horsies are enjoying their new stable fans ☀️.

We've been working on quite a few things behind the scenes and in the coming weeks we'll be working on fixing a few issues with our current rig. As this is not at all interesting to post about, we'll be posting a few video's showcasing new features we've been working on!

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11/06/2026

A year worth of progress 📅✨

It's always fun to receive a notification saying 'one year ago today...' with an image of what you were doing last year. Lately we've been seeing a few video's of our progress on the game. And eventhough we're nowhere near finished. It's good to see how much progress we made! Curious to see where we'll be in another year.

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09/06/2026

The first version of our horse shader is complete 🥳

This shader allows us to easily create and randomize horses' coat colors and markings. As we’re not limited by textures, the horses can showcase a wide variety of sock heights, body markings and in the future face markings. The coat colors are going to be determined based on the genes of the horse, where the main color is picked from a pallet of colors, allowing us to determine how many shades of brown, black and grey we want in the game! 🎨

We’ll soon write a more detailed post on how we managed to do this on Patreon.

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👷🏻‍♀️WIP: a sneakpeek of what we've been working on.In a previous post we already mentioned making new horse textures an...
04/06/2026

👷🏻‍♀️WIP: a sneakpeek of what we've been working on.

In a previous post we already mentioned making new horse textures and we're getting so close to finishing it. More info coming soon 😊

21/04/2026

How it started vs how it's going 🐎

We found a video from about a year ago and had to do a little comparison 👀

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Music: Silver springs - Fleetwood Mac

09/04/2026

Ponying 🐎🐎
What's more fun than hanging out with one horse? Hanging out with two!

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05/04/2026

Happy easter 🐰🐣

10/03/2026

🐴 Progress isn't linear

Progress almost never being a straight line also applies to game development. 📈

As you can see in this picture, taken in game, the texture of the horse isn't as detailed as the last posts. This is because we are trying out a new way of making the horse textures, which hopefully will save us a lot of time in the future. We'll elaborate more once we know for certain it works the way we want it to!

Next to that we are also fixing some bugs, improving the horse's neck and we are experimenting with some new hairstyles. 💇🏻‍♀️

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