Horse Isle (video game)
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Horse Isle is a browser based MMORPG
first released in 2007. The game is developed and published independently by Joe and Miranda Durbin. In May 2010 a second version of the game was released with completely different gameplay and graphics Horse Isle: Legend of the Esrohs.
Horse Isle is set in a fictional world that centers around horses. The focus is on individual player's capture and care of horses, mini games, arena competitions and the dozens of horse breeds the game offers. The game is geared to include gamers of all ages so it has parental filters in place. The game currently has a player of base of around 10,000. Player criticism of the game seems to center around lag issues and lack of challenge for experienced gamers. One of the biggest features of the game is that it is completely browser based but is a fully graphical online rpg. The artwork in Horse Isle has a 2D style with hand drawn images.
The Horse Isle series uses educational elements involved in progressing through the games. These focus around reading comprehension, spelling, mathematics, science, and a lot of problem solving.
MMORPG
Massively multiplayer online role-playing game is a genre of role-playing video games in which a very large number of players interact with one another within a virtual game world....
first released in 2007. The game is developed and published independently by Joe and Miranda Durbin. In May 2010 a second version of the game was released with completely different gameplay and graphics Horse Isle: Legend of the Esrohs.
Horse Isle is set in a fictional world that centers around horses. The focus is on individual player's capture and care of horses, mini games, arena competitions and the dozens of horse breeds the game offers. The game is geared to include gamers of all ages so it has parental filters in place. The game currently has a player of base of around 10,000. Player criticism of the game seems to center around lag issues and lack of challenge for experienced gamers. One of the biggest features of the game is that it is completely browser based but is a fully graphical online rpg. The artwork in Horse Isle has a 2D style with hand drawn images.
The Horse Isle series uses educational elements involved in progressing through the games. These focus around reading comprehension, spelling, mathematics, science, and a lot of problem solving.