Horse Runner DX News

• Unlockable starting horses: From the title screen you can now access the list of unlockable horses. By completing challenges you can unlock more and more horses to start the game with.
  
• Leaderboard: From now on, your high scores will be saved and displayed in a local leaderboard. Each horse that finishes a run will receive its own entry with its name. You can reset all entries under Settings\Data.
  
• Tutorial hints: When you play through the game for the first time, you will be shown tutorial hints that explain the game. You can reset the hints under Settings\Data if you want to see them again.
  
• Screenshot mode: There is now a screenshot button in the bottom left of the pause menu and the game over screen. This allows you to display the game without the UI and take a screenshot at your leisure.
  

• Improved music controls: You can now go back and forth in the music playlist using the F7 and F8 keys. With a controller you can use the shoulder buttons for this: LB/RB on Xbox controllers, L1/R1 on PlayStation controllers.
  
• Improved background music: A new music track was added and the loudness of the music tracks was adjusted to match each other.
  
• Automatic pause: If your controller is disconnected or the battery runs out, the game will now automatically pause so you don't run into a rock :-)
  
• Hiding the mouse: When you play with a keyboard or controller, the mouse cursor is automatically hidden so that it does not disturb you.
  
• Improved Shaders: The quality of the shaders has been improved, making text more readable and the game looking better overall.
  
• Improved fonts: The font used to display apples and the score has been improved so that the text no longer jumps back and forth when counting up.
  
• Improved progress bar: The progress bar now includes the goal flag to make it clear that the bar always refers to a level.
  
• Improved notifications: The notifications have been given a background to make them easier to read.
  
• Improved UI layout: The UI layout of all screens has been adjusted to provide more space for text in certain languages.
  
• Improved UI navigation: Fixed an issue where the game would accidentally quit on the title screen when pressing the wrong controller button. Sorry about that.
  

• Tree and bush shadows: All trees and bushes in the landscape now cast a shadow. This gives the landscape more depth and contrast - and simply looks more beautiful!
  
• Improved background graphics: The background graphics have been improved to ensure that the colors and lighting are more consistent overall.
  
• Added new sound effects: When you land on a bale of straw, a rock, a tree trunk or a bridge, there are now additional sound effects. For example, the straw rustles when you land on a bale of straw.
  
• Cheaper first horses: If you didn't collect enough apples on your very first run, you couldn't buy horses after the first level. The very first horses are now cheaper so you don't have to stay alone :-)
  
• Explanatory texts for power-ups: The help screen now displays a short text for all power-ups explaining the effect of the power-ups.
  
• New menu icons: Since some languages ​​have very long translations, some button texts in the menus have been replaced by icons.
  
• Better challenge info: The challenge info at the end of the level now also shows tasks that have already been completed, so that there is no confusion compared to the pause menu.
  
• Corrected power-up text: The "Apples +1" power-up had a misleading name and is now called "Apples +50%". This means that for every apple you collect, you have a 50% chance of getting an additional apple.
  

• New coat colors: There are 4 new coat colors, making 10 different horses in the game. The new colors are Buckskin, light Dapple Grey, dark Dapple Grey and Snowflake Appaloosa (the spotted ones are my favorite).
  
• New and updated sound effects: All sound effects in the game and the UI have been revised and/or replaced with new ones. The horses now snort and neigh depending on the situation.
  
• New background music: The game now contains more and new music tracks. Problems with YouTube's Content ID (despite valid licensing) should now be resolved and no longer be incorrectly detected.
  
• More exciting landscape: The landscape of all biomes has been made a little more varied and now has more topology. There can now also be small rivers in the mountain landscape.
  

• Improved camera: The old camera was sometimes shifted by half a pixel and was therefore blurry for a moment. The camera has been completely redesigned and is now always sharp and buttery smooth.
  
• Adjusted audio volume: The volume of all sound effects and background music pieces has been normalized and adjusted to common loudness standards. The overall sound is now much more balanced.
  

• Fixed jittery movement of the following horses
  
• Fixed completion issue of level based challenges
  
• Fixed the balancing of challenges
  
• Fixed the bonus for level based challenges
  
• Fixed flickering dead horses
  
• Fixed crash when resetting data during run
  
• Added confirmation before resetting data
  
• Improved drawing performance of vegatation
  

• Improved accuracy: In some cases, it could happen that following horses jumped a little too far or too short. The physics for following horses have now been improved so that all horses land on exactly the same spot. This should mean that there are no more unfair moments :-)
  

• Fixed jump and drop animation of horses
  
• Fixed jumping camera after all horses died
  
• Improved the camera during the pause screen
  

Taking elements from the likes of Alto's Adventure, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Dino Run, Canabalt and others we have a new wholesome looking endless-runner with a twist in Horse Runner DX.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/horse-runner-dx-is-a-wholesome-endless-runner-where-you-play-as-a-herd-of-different-horses/

Taking elements from the likes of Alto's Adventure, BIT.TRIP RUNNER, Dino Run, Canabalt and others we have a new wholesome looking endless-runner with a twist in Horse Runner DX.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/01/horse-runner-dx-is-a-wholesome-endless-runner-where-you-play-as-a-herd-of-different-horses