- Equintium
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 andNeopets .Founding
Initial planning for Equintium began in June 2004 with development starting the following month. The 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.
Programming & Hardware
Equintium is coded in
PHP with aMySQL database for storing game data, such has horse information, user home pages and everything else necessary to play "EI". Savi, owner of the short-lived game Arab-Quest.com, joined Atomic, the owner of EI, in the creation of EI to provide a large amount of programming of the game.
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