Horse Race Test Maker
A downloadable game for Windows
Recreation of Horse Race Test by Blake Andrews
Are you upset that your favorite horse keeps losing and wished you could run it back? Have you ever wanted to make your own diabolical race track to test your horse OCs with? Now you can with this new gadget called "Horse Race Test Maker", presented by Downtown Skybox.
Design your own maps and horses.
FEATURES:
* Make new horses and share them around the internet
* Draw race tracks and import them easily into the game
* Customize the colors of your map and even import unique visuals for them
* More could be added?
CREDITS:
* Made by Hapty
* Green horse by Erfly
* Example serpent map by Minichibis
* Original Horse Race Test experience by Blake Andrews
TUTORIALS
Creating stuff in Horse Race Test Maker should be straightforward but if you're having trouble refer to these guides
HOW TO MAKE MAPS:
0) Maps are a .png file so you will need to make them in an image editing program, any will work, even microsoft paint should work.
1) Create an image that has a width of 640 pixels and height of 480 pixels
2) Start drawing your map, it initially needs to be just black and white, with black being walls and white being empty space
3) Place a SINGLE red pixel somewhere, this will indicate where one horse will spawn. Note that that the pixel needs to be completely red (HEX #FF0000)
4) Place a SINGLE green pixel somewhere, this will indicate where the gate will be. Note that the pixel needs to be completely green (HEX #00FF00)
5) Place a SINGLE blue pixel somewhere, this will indicate where the carrot will be. Note that the pixel needs to be completely blue (HEX #0000FF)
6) Save the image somewhere as a PNG file.
6) Now you should be done with your map! Open the game and click on the big plus icon to import the map.
7) Once inside the game you can customize its colors and import a cosmetic image overlay that will go on top of the map.
8) If you are having trouble refer to the example maps located in the maps folder where you put the game.
HOW TO MAKE HORSES:
0) You will need to draw the horse in an image editing program, any will work, even microsoft paint should work.
1) Inside the game Import a map so that you can see horses on the right side of the screen.
2) Click one of the horses you want to edit.
3) Click the red "Reset Horse" button at the bottom.
4) Give the horse a name.
5) Click on the button with googly eyes pointing to the right and import your sprite. Note that the horse has a width of 32 pixels and height of 32 pixels other wise its going to be stretched.
6) Import the rest of the looking direction, if you only have one horse sprite just fill out the rest of the squares with the same sprite.
7) Click the "Save horse to file" button at the top and save the horse inside the horses folder that comes alongside your game.
8) Now you are done! Your new horse will be automatically loaded from the horses folder every time you import a new map.
Download
Development log
- Version 1.148 days ago
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a suggestion that no one else has asked for yet: maybe a shuffle button to randomize the order that the horses are in? I've had a lot of fun playing with this and can't wait to see it get updated!
perhaps the ability to customize the timer with custom fonts, format, etc could be implemented as well?
I wonder what media reference this is
How do you make custom sounds work for walking and winning? it isn't working for me.
does any one have horse ocs? id like too use them to see how majestic theses horse race!
i have one in mind expect i didnt make the sprite yet
here are some of mine!
they look AWESOME!!! share them so i can rate them!
https://mega.nz/folder/qxRgQCRJ#Blvi9f2Y6ixYKFRhqosKxQ
here they are!
mysterious figure, garbage bin, and knifemare for anyone that wants it
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zzGuGVlNwYind7871kQnwunU1Rmg-cLH/view?usp=shari...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f3Nnjjw8wX8HqZmrJu-RZNRlghbISoLt/view?usp=shari...
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_GWHIG8Sk6169wAbTSz2z2-akANolewR/view?usp=drive...
just downloded it
so how is it?
i made the firts track
its nice!
love this game but is there a place to share maps and horse
scroll thru the comment section, not much besides some .hrt files thru google drive links
Apk?
is that red from fnf vs imposter v4?
why are thou so little 💔💔
hes a pony, and ponies are small horses
heh, skating rink
are you insipred by me? cuz if you do.. congrats bro! ive never a insporation of me! i hope you'lle have a good time making and race testing your horses! :)
Finally, a decent recreation of horse race tests! I was worried I was going to have to make one myself. There are a few things that could make it better, though
It would be better if I could place individual horse start positions on a map, instead of only one that the horses all must crowd around in a fixed pattern. Being able to place multiple gates and goals would also be nice.(Edit: I'm stupid you can actually do this, the tutorial was just worded weirdly.)
In addition, MIDI music support (for both win screens and stages) and animated overlays (As seen in HRTTHRT. I suspect that they may actually sprites, but making them part of the overlay would no doubt be easier for you to implement, if a tad inefficient) would also be appreciated.
There are also a few other things, like the lack of the transparent glow on the carrots, the DCT artifacts on the countdown screen, the ending portraits being too bright, and the font and location mismatch on the timer, but I fear I am starting to nitpick.
Still, a masterful recreation that actually feels like HRT, unlike the others I've tried. I look forward to seeing what comes in the future.
Edit 2: I've found an issue where horses with custom sounds and end screens are not loaded properly when choosing a map.
Hes screaming cuz hes color is screamin green
wow cyan! you have been changing recently! you have now become bigger! and.. wait a second. why to you have a stich?
this unpleasent horse comes at your door
Maybe try to make a “Add background music” button, a “Dump video” button (which means it renders the race [with overlays and stuff] and then dumps the recording to a recordings folder) and Win music for the horses (i dont know if it is whinny sound)
Thats my suggestions overall
i need garbage bin and a mysterious figure
Why not make them yourself? You have been given all the tools.
Admittedly, it seems nobody has cleaned up the garbage bin sprite yet, but It's a simple crop job for mysterious figure.
thanks!
btw, what program do i use? paint.net or paint? i need to resize amf to 32 by 32 pixels and cuz of sometimes the quality is bad!
I have spent numerous hours in this game, and it's good, really good. damn good, probably the best public recreation we have, and it has a really good ui. a few suggestions though.
for starters, and probably one of the easiest changes to implement of my suggestions (just based on coding knowledge), only play the whinny once. the default one can be spaced out the same amount of time you have it spaced out for, but for the love of god only play the whinny once.
another good touch would be maybe to have an extra text box on the side for the three letter abbreviation to have displayed before the race. a key bind to reset the countdown would also be really funny to have, and accurate at least to the tournament. That being said, these are much more difficult to implement, so I'd understand not wanting to do that.
despite all I've said, I really, really enjoy this recreation, and hope to see more on it and more improvements from it, regardless on what you do or don't do with it.
this is an amazing project but I do have a small suggestion. maybe add the functionality to change the map size to whatever you want and have a camera that follows the horses based on what horse you choose to focus on. still a fun game nonetheless.
made some pizza tower stuff for this https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I4Wv3PqdcrZuhw4Bu2nBaBprfdPQKwtO/view?usp=drive...
Question: Will there be an update with perhaps the ability to add music to the races? This is really good, and I love how this is made (Very nice creator used it, SUPER fun! Just kind of awkwardly quiet is all)
mediocre recreations of Fantasy Fantasy Fantasy
and Oob
very very
So far this is absolutely peak! Only things I would suggest to add are the ability to add music jingles after a horse wins, and to add a toggle for the 3 letter indicators under the horses in races!
that's because you're supposed to pencil tool them at 32x32 natively... It looks so much better when you do that, coming from someone who has made four of them.
why does it crash everytime i try to load in a map, its 640 x 480 and its made in microsoft paint so it shouldnt crash ;-; maybe its the gradients from paint.net doing it
found it was because of colors, sadly my detailed maps arent ever gonna be as detailed (esp my solar system map) but oh well, i dont mind it as long as i get to have a more accurate horse race test
have you tried loading the fully colored maps as the regular maps??? because the maps have to be black for walls and white for the rest, and then the colors r put as overlay
i did, i now redid all of the maps with the gradients and colors i did and now i have gotten it to work
I believe there is a bug where the Victory Screen for every horse either doesn't save or resets for some reason and I don't know what causes it.. There's a chance it may apply to the Victory Whinny and Footstep Sounds but I haven't tested it to make sure.
to me, it seems it only resets when the horse is chosen by loading a map
if u load the .hrt file of that horse the screen comes back
It would still be nice to have loaded horses persist and not reset every time a map is loaded, it becomes very quickly tedious to re-load every horse one-by-one..
Yet for the one who created (lation) it, it works.
i fixed it i think
fearsome fate recreation (from the tournament) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TeJ7ZjKHuyR9KFvo8Y1xgKEmXwQXzSE9/view?usp=shari...
Genuinely The Most Accurate Public Remake EVER.
For some reason its just a black screen when I try opening it. Like it shows the into part but not the actual app
Thank you for this, it's pretty well made!
the text font on the win screen should be tempus sans not papyrus.. 💔💔💔 other than that its awesome
And the nightmare horses could be nice
here's knifemare, but it's the only one i made https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_GWHIG8Sk6169wAbTSz2z2-akANolewR/view?usp=shari...
Nice
really nice! can you please make some more if you have the power too make some more, knifey is lonley!
omg omg very sorry for the late response
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1f3Nnjjw8wX8HqZmrJu-RZNRlghbISoLt/view?usp=shari...
if u havent made one already that is garbage bin in their latest form
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zzGuGVlNwYind7871kQnwunU1Rmg-cLH/view?usp=shari...
that's mysterious fig
thx! knifey is happy!
Also, you spelt comedy material morning wrong, its "comedy" not "comely"
canonically, pink's name is comely material morning, not comedy material morning
no typo/misspelling here
oh okay
Exactly what I've been looking for in a custom horse race test maker!!! Fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!