Equintium

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Equintium is an automated, online horse-simulation game where players around the globe can do many of the same things they would do with a horse in real life, like breed, train, show, buy and sell. The game is free to players of all ages all over the world, but a large majority of active players are teenage girls living in the United States. The structure of Equintium can closely be related to other pet-simulation games, like Horseland and Neopets.

[edit] Founding

Initial planning for Equintium began in June 2004 with development starting the following month. Anthony (who will not have a last name for sake of security) began planning for the game as an alternative to the other games he had become disappointed in playing for a variety of reasons, including inactive owners, unreasonable moderators (Equintium is sometimes like this, although they try not to be), bizarre rule changes etc. His hope was to create a game that would solve the problems the industry leader of the time lacked to fix and provide players with a new alternative to a game which had caused much unrest within the simulation community.

[edit] Programming & Hardware

Equintium is coded in PHP with a MySQL database for storing game data, such has horse information, user home pages and everything else necessary to play "EI". At the time of EI's initial development, Anthony was dumbfounded at the PHP knowledge needed to program the game on his own. For this reason, "Savi", owner of the short-lived game Arab-Quest.com, joined him in the creation of EI to provide a large amount of programming of the game and teach Anthony the PHP language at the same time. Anthony eventually caught on to PHP & MySQL and has been able to run EI independently for over a year.

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