Deloryan

We've found someone for the job

Hi guys, I'm looking for a (lead) developer (or two) for Horse Reality. It's getting too big for me alone! You will be taking the project that once started as a hobby to the next level. Fixing those nasty bugs and glitches, and work on features that we've thought of for ages, but didn't have the time (or knowledge) to create. There is A LOT planned for the game. I want to make the game responsive, add an extra server for Germany, would love to create drag/drop maps for the users so they can build their own stables and much more. All of that requires a lot of code, thinking and time, so having an extra developer would really help! What are you going to do? Fix bugs and glitches Review and update old code Make the website more secure Create new features to the game Thoroughly test newly added code If possible, update/upgrade the server from time to time Required knowledge: PHP, AJAX, MySQL, Javascript (mostly jQuery) GIT workflow Terminal Pre: Linux SASS Server management skills Podio (platform to keep track of everything) Horse and/or genetics lover! When you're going to work with us, you'll need to sign an NDA and I'd like to have a video call with you via skype or slack (view some of the code you've written before, learn more about you, etc). I love to see who I'm going to work with ;D What do you get in return? A bunch of devoted people who want to work with you and who are always willing to help out. We try to think of solutions as much as we can and have a positive vibe and attitude. If you love to code and don't like the hassle of communicating with the game community, we have your back! We have quite some moderators and community managers to handle that part for you. If this interests you, please send the following to [email protected]: resumé motivation your monthly fee based on the number of days per week you'd be available.

This topic can be closed. We found the person we need

Update: We have found a few promising candidates and will be interviewing soon. For now, applications are closed. Once we know more, we'll update here

Hey guys! I'm currently super swamped with work for Horse Reality. The game has grown a lot in the past few months and I really need extra hands. As for the community, the largest group is 16+ and goes to school or has a job. We do have a few younger players, but they're mostly in the minority. We try to take the concerns, ideas and suggestions of our players to the next level. But to do that I need more people who can help gather those ideas and keep the community under control. We went from about 30-ish players online in beta to 200 - 400 players online at the same time. The forum is getting a bit flooded and I don't have time to respond to every message anymore. Tasinei is already doing a wonderful job, but with 2 people it's still a lot of work. What I'd need your help with: Respond to our FB and Instagram channels. Keep our Discord and the forum in check. The person I'm looking for is someone who can speak English (if you also speak Dutch that'd be a definite plus). You know how to work with crowds and write in a way that is easy for others to understand, while also considering their opinion and feelings. We want to give everyone a good feeling on the forum and while playing the game. So you try to prevent any intense discussions wherever that'd be (socials, discord, forum, etc). We have had a few clashes on the forum lately, as I am not always able to communicate clearly what I mean to say (I'm originally Dutch). So having someone who could help with that would be great, without hurting others. The Discord could also use some extra pairs of eyes, as sometimes things get heated over there as well. I mainly use Discord and (sometimes Skype to video chat). Podio is used for everyone's tasks (I can show/teach you). Besides that, I have 1password for all passwords. Let me know if you would be able to help out and what your hourly rate is for payment. Payment would go via Paypal and you'd need to sign a contract. Send me a PM or contact me via [email protected]!

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@Aminirus Would you be able to draw horse tack realistically on about 1000x1000px size on greyscale. We already have the linearts available, but need it to be coloured and such. I think I have about 90 items that need to be done. Preferably all of that before October, if not possible, then 2/3rd of it. I have a few of them done myself if you want references, but I'm neither good nor fast at drawing that stuff xD I also want commercial pricing as we'll highly likely use it to put it on the horses and create posters and cards from it to sell. Could you tell me if you'd be up for the task and tell me how much you think that'll cost ?

@Martyn Could Horse Reality be added to the list? It's currently in open beta: https://www.horsereality.com Horse Reality is a free-to-play horse sim with exquisite images, set in the real world with a realistic breeding and colour genetic system. Build your own estate and breed horses to perfect the bloodlines or colours. Travel around the world to gather feral horses and bargain with other players. Participate in national and international competitions to win medals. Perform in horse shows to collect rosettes for your horses. Start a club with friends or go to the university to earn a degree and start your own company. Insta: https://www.instagram.com/horserealitygame FB: https://www.facebook.com/HorseReality/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/horsereality Discord invite: https://discord.gg/nmXYBRW

I'm from the Netherlands and here we have a company called Mollie: https://www.mollie.com/en/ It's pretty easy to use and you can choose for yourself how you want to be paid. All payments will go to them and after they take their percentage they will send you the payment daily, weekly, bi-weekly or monthly, depending on how you wrote down your settings. It allows a lot of payment services and is pretty easy to use. They have nice guides on how to use their API as well.

I make them approximately 1600px wide (saved for web). Usually they're displayed at about 900px width, but saving them bigger makes sure they look pretty on retina as well

I indeed ask my item artists to draw around the 350x350px for retina purposes. Horse items even larger, so I can transform them to fit on the horse, but also to use for printing later on.

Don’t forget to attend your users about the personal info when they create a username in the terms of service. Tell them that its their own responsibility to make sure the username, avatar, banner, profile etc don’t trace back to their real identity. And if they still do it anywats, that its their responsibility, not yours. But that you also won’t sell/share that information to third parties either. You don’t need to encrypt those things, as they should not add it in there in the first place. Some other things: - players should be able to delete their account (along with all their data that’s connected to it) - they should be able to get the data you have on them from you (like how it works on FB now for example, you could also just drop it in a csv that can be opened in excel) - design for privacy first. So no automatically checked checkboxes for newsletters for example. - you need to state what you are using the info for. So if you want to send them newsletters about game info, but also use their email to send freebies. You need 2 checkboxes. So they can sign up for either, or both. You need to give them the choice now.

@GeekGirl Could you send me a quote for how much it'd be to setup our new server with the things I've already mentioned? I have a lifetime license for DirectAdmin, which is used on my current server. But once everything is setup, transferred and done, I won't need the old server anymore. I'm not sure if you could use the same license for that, as the old server needs to stay up before we can do the move. Thanks !

Perhaps that you can take a look at my thread?

@PaulSonny @Design1online @judda Maybe one of you? Or perhaps that you know someone?

Hey guys, I've made a new server for Horse Reality at the beginning of March. I've installed php, apache and that stuff, but I'm really not that good at it and could really use some help. Normally I'd ask my boyfriend who is a full-stack developer, but he grew rather tired of helping me with Horse Reality :') Which is why I'm reaching out here. And actually need help with that ASAP. I'm looking for someone who has done this more often and is trustworthy. If this works out, I'll probably ask your help more often for updating and such. We've got a CentOS 7.4 x64 server from Digital Ocean btw. I followed their install guide, but I'm not completely sure if I've done it properly. I want to get this server ready as the "base" for all following servers. There is some kind of "cloning" option on Digital Ocean, so I want to use that so I/we can easily get the next servers ready. This server will become the Dutch server for HR and I'll need 2 more, 1 for testing and 1 for the international version. Things I still need to get done: install GD for images not sure if I did the whole SSH thing correctly get PHP to 5.6 instead of 5.4 (tried it multiple times, but it's still on 5.4 according to the phpinfo file. Also, I need to update my code first in order for it to work with PHP 7+ I'm still working on that) install something like DirectAdmin or Cpanel (my old server has direct admin) Make sure the server is safe If this server is done and works fine, it'll be the Dutch server for HR, then we need to clone 2 other ones. Get the GIT repo working so that if I commit/push something, it automatically goes to the testing server. If the code is working like it should on the testing server, be able to push it to LIVE somewhere (i.e. something like Beanstalk or just from the terminal). Move the current websites to the new server(s). More might come up, this is just off the top of my head. I also might need help later on as I want to cache all images from HR, the how and where is something where I could need help with. But atm we retrieve all images every time, rather than cache them, which uses a lot of data on our servers' end. Thanks a lot! I'm looking forward to your replies and proposals. Please note: from April 28th until May 18th, I'll be on a holiday in Japan. I'm hoping to get it all ready before then, but if that's not possible we just have to postpone it.

I'm working with Chutkat for quite a while now. She makes awesome art and has good prices for the gorgeous work that she offers. I think we started working together somewhere in 2015 and still happily work together now I can also highly recommend working with her!

I also recently worked with Pepper for our new items in Horse Reality. The work was done fast, communication was great. If something wasn't clear, she would explain it in a different way. She style matched so the items would fit the style of our previous item artist, and we're very happy with them! In our facebook post you can see the final result

@Design1online How is Digital Ocean working out for you? I'm looking to transfer Horse Reality to their server. I'm having the same issue as @Vix . Getting the max. connection errors al the time I've been working on improving my code, but even then I keep having the issue.

Thanks We only have 3 days left though, so I'm hoping to hit at least the first one

Hey guys, I just wanted to share the exciting news that the initial goal for our Kickstarter has been reached last weekend! I was actually helping a friend move to his new apartment, so I quickly made this Instagram video to add to our socials Haha! We only have about 4 days left and hope that we could reach our first stretch goal before the campaign ends. Especially since I'll be focussing on Horse Reality fulltime as of May 2018. I could definitely use the extra's to keep working on the game for a longer period of time ^^. I hope we can turn Horse Reality into a super awesome horse game! Thanks everyone <3

I saw you also mentioned items. Do you draw semi-realistic items like this? I could use more items for Horse Reality, the artist who drew these is drawing in a different style now and doesn't do items anymore. So I'm looking for someone else who could do this

Hey Pepper, do you draw semi-realistic items like these ones? I could use more items for Horse Reality, the artist who drew these is drawing in a different style now and doesn't do items anymore. So I'm looking for someone else who could do this

Sorry, I hadn't seen this! Do you have examples of the character art? I'm looking for artists who can do something similar like I listed down below.

@dracula The badges for Horse Reality (the ones you listed first) were made by @chutkat I'm sure she can help you out with something awesome as well!