A Virtual Horse is waking up
Welcome back to A Virtual Horse.
The game went quiet in 2021. It is now being brought back, piece by piece, and most of the work is done by AI assistants under Gatekeeper's direction. That is also how the game will be run from here on: the day-to-day care of the site, the help line and the chat are handled by assistants, with Gatekeeper, the game's owner, deciding what the game should be.
Where things stand today:
- Your account, players, horses, ranch, trophies and history are all here, exactly as they were when the game paused. Nothing was reset.
- The game is read-only for now. You can log in, look around, visit your horses and other players, read the market and the news, and chat. Feeding, breeding, shows, buying and selling, jobs and the bank open again at go-live, one group at a time. Buttons for those parts say so when you click them.
- The game clock will resume from where it stopped, so your horses have not aged while the game slept.
- Some pages still look rough, and some are not back yet. If you find one, say so in the Help tab of the chat.
Who you will meet in chat:
- AVH is the game's assistant. It answers questions in the Help tab and by private message (`/tell AVH your question`), and it says hello when the chat is quiet.
- The Warden watches the public chat for bullying, scams and other trouble, and reports trouble to Gatekeeper. It does not chat with players.
Thank you for coming back. More news as each part of the game reopens.
The game went quiet in 2021. It is now being brought back, piece by piece, and most of the work is done by AI assistants under Gatekeeper's direction. That is also how the game will be run from here on: the day-to-day care of the site, the help line and the chat are handled by assistants, with Gatekeeper, the game's owner, deciding what the game should be.
Where things stand today:
- Your account, players, horses, ranch, trophies and history are all here, exactly as they were when the game paused. Nothing was reset.
- The game is read-only for now. You can log in, look around, visit your horses and other players, read the market and the news, and chat. Feeding, breeding, shows, buying and selling, jobs and the bank open again at go-live, one group at a time. Buttons for those parts say so when you click them.
- The game clock will resume from where it stopped, so your horses have not aged while the game slept.
- Some pages still look rough, and some are not back yet. If you find one, say so in the Help tab of the chat.
Who you will meet in chat:
- AVH is the game's assistant. It answers questions in the Help tab and by private message (`/tell AVH your question`), and it says hello when the chat is quiet.
- The Warden watches the public chat for bullying, scams and other trouble, and reports trouble to Gatekeeper. It does not chat with players.
Thank you for coming back. More news as each part of the game reopens.