Horse Hotel - care for horses

Dear Tivola Team, I enjoy playing this game, and I especially like how you don’t have to wait real time for anything, all you have to do is pass a night in-game. The thing that bothers me, however, is that the animation is choppy. The horses move in a jerky, twitchy manner that is not at all like a real horse. The tack that is on the horses moves with it, and it looks very funky. I also think that the animation of the rider during vaulting is kind of weird. I also think that you could make it so that you don’t have to buy as much. When I played it on the Kindle Fire, I didn’t need to buy anything. It came with all the breeds. When I graduated to an iPad, I suddenly saw all of the horse colors in the store for actual money. Just disappointed about that. Another thing is something that has already been said many times by other reviews, but I think that you might want to change some of your treats. Why would you feed a horse bread? Just saying, that might set a bad example to young people and/or people not experienced with horses. What if someone started feeding their horse bread in real life? I do enjoy playing the game, I just think it needs some work. The animation, realism, and availability of certain in-game things should be focused on, in my, and many others’ opinions. Thanks, Feather

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Firstly, this game is good for kids. My little sister is entertained by it and that makes me happy. But as an equestrian, I noticed a few odd things. I am a western rider, and the first thing that I noticed was when my little sister was doing “dressage”, the horse had a Western saddle and an English bridle on! And also, dressage isn’t a Western event! Bowing is not a dressage move either! Same goes with show jumping. The horse also made movements a horse can’t make. Like prolonged rearing while seeming to hover backwards!! Seriously tivola?? And also, some of the treats in the game are bad for horses in real life! And to top it all off, the game makes you use a body brush on the horse’s face when you groom it. Brushing a horse’s face with a hard bristle brush can damage it! Im disappointed that tivola uses hardly any equestrian knowledge in their game. I was hoping that the game would teach my sister about caring for horses and REAL horse facts. I was wrong! Don’t download for educational purposes!

Hey developers hope you all are doing good. I got a couple of questions. One is I’m wondering how you created the hoof sound effects of the horses. Like is it real recordings of hoof sounds with some added digitizing of sound? That is cool if that’s what it is. In my horse games I have a need for the hoof sounds to be real it’s comforting when I can’t be near real horses. Also wondering if you could consider adding Standardbred with pacing gait? Would give me more to do in the game more time to spend with the horses in the game because I love hanging about with them. I love that you can put 2 horses at a time in the paddock to care for they need their friends ❤️. God bless you all. Get back to me when you can about my questions Merry Christmas

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So, don’t get me wrong, this app is fun. But there are a few things that either bug me (and a few other people, based on other reviews) or are just plain lazy. Some of the major things that I would really like to see fixed: -Sometimes, when you are caring for one horse, another one in the field comes walking over and goes right through the one you are playing with. Very strange looking, trust me. -The rearing animation is very choppy. I would expect something much better from Tivola than the prolonged tap dancing (my interpretation of the rearing animation)the horse currently does. -You updated the saddle, great! But—the bridle is now ORANGE. It looks nothing like the saddle and is really out of place. -Most of the horse animations are choppy and halting. It sometimes looks like the poor horse is being electrocuted!! I was really hoping for some good graphics like all your other games, but this was a bit of a letdown. I’m sure you have heard these before, but seriously, it would be very nice if you could do something about it next update, please!! I will edit my review based on whether these change or improve.

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I got this game a few months ago. I liked it enough, so I bought all the horses. After I while I deleted it. I remembered this app a while later and looked at the update. I was excited to see that it had pony’s now so I got it again. I hit the “restore purchases” button to get all the horses. I got all the previous horses, but the pony’s were not with them. Mind you I bought the horse bundle. I was so upset. Buying all the pony’s would cost three more dollars. I know these games are a bit pricy, but at least after you bought everything you didn’t need to get anything else, but now I guess the developers can’t even do that right anymore. After I saw this, I immediately deleted it. I am not going to download it again unless the team changes this. So beware and don’t waste you’re money. Their are plenty of free games that are more fun than this mediocre game.