Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch is a systems-driven horse game where you build your own horse farm in picturesque emerald valley.
For a quick impression, see this announcement trailer.
My work: Programmer.
Duration: April 2023 – January 2024, 40h/week
Studio project, done by a team comprising multiple devs from NightinGames and Aesir Interactive. Unreal Engine 5.
Horse Tales: Emerald Valley Ranch was developed by Aesir Interactive, a 100-person studio from Munich, Germany. In 2023 in collaboration with indie studio NightinGames (which I am part of), new features, bugfixes and DLCs were developed.
As a junior programmer, my responsibilities where
- investigating and fixing bugs
- implementing small features
Key Learnings
During this time I learned a lot about system architecture and gained a lot of insights into the Unreal Engine codebase, using various systems like
- the gameplay framework
- GAS
This was also the first time I experienced a gamedev workflow on a professional level.
Gregor Sönnichsen 