Things everyone can learn from horse people: 1. Get out of bed early 2. Work hard 3. Enjoy an afternoon nap 4. Make mistakes, but never give up. 5. Be real- show your emotions 6. Be passionate- care about people and animals 7. Enjoy good times, and keep going through the bad

I've seen a few "tap leaderboard" sites pop up lately and loved the idea, so I made one just for small game studios. No pay to play, ever. Getting organic downloads is nearly impossible now that the stores push paid ads. This is a small way to help each other. greatgames.lucky27.workers.d…

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Good morning @AndPacing - welcome to Season 133 👀.

We couldn't leave @AndPacing out... brand new website featuring stable profiles for everyone is live now! offandpacing.com/stable.php?…

Hey @CatchDriverGame players - every Pro Series driver has their own profile page now. Show off your stats and biggest wins! catchdriver2.com/pro-series/…

For the first time in 133 seasons (over 9 years!) we are making an adjustment to the breeding algorithm in @AndPacing. We've reworked how foals inherit their ability. From now on, the sire and mare you choose carry more weight- pairing two strong horses more reliably passes their talent down to the next generation, and both parents count, so a single standout can't carry a weak match. This makes building and refining a great bloodline more rewarding than ever. Choose your pairings thoughtfully! Your existing horses are unaffected- this applies to foals bred from season 133 on.

Frog thinks pot is getting nice and warm.

The problem isn't the CAWs exactly. The days of humans beating computers at chess are long gone. The days of humans beating computers in horse racing are now gone too. The problem is preferential pricing, data access, tote access, and conflicts of interest. The best outcome a horseplayer can hope for is a level playing field in terms of pricing and access.

Off and Pacing and Catch Driver have been played globally by somewhere around half a million people. Many love them. Many love to hate them. What matters is that the community around these games is real, it's passionate, and it's been the best part of building all of this. I started Off and Pacing just under 10 years ago. People told me I was crazy. They said harness racing wasn't big enough to build games around. I disagreed then and I disagree now. Harness racing is an incredible sport. It just needs to figure out how to stay relevant in a world that keeps changing around it. I believe these games can be part of how that happens. Building a game studio is hard. We haven't always gotten it right. We've shipped things we'd take back and made calls I'd make differently today. But I'm beyond proud of what our team has built, and I'm grateful to the players who stuck around through all of it. The thing that means the most to me isn't the player numbers or the fact that these two games cover basically the entire global market for harness racing video games. It's the stories. Players who started in the game and went on to become owners in real life. People who showed up at a track for the first time because something in Off and Pacing or Catch Driver got them curious. Because games are global in a way that any single racing jurisdiction can't be, we've been able to put this sport in front of people it would never have reached otherwise. That's the part I care about. Today I'm rededicating myself to these games. Their best days are still ahead. If you've never played, give them a try. If you used to play and drifted away, come back and see what's changed. Every player matters. Every download is another person who might fall in love with the real sport behind the game. There's one more thing I've been thinking about. When horse people get hurt on the job in thoroughbred racing, the PDJF is there to help. In harness racing we don't have that. When something tragic happens, it falls on the community to put together a crowdfunding campaign, and somehow it always comes through, but it shouldn't have to work that way. I'd like to dedicate a portion of Catch Driver's future revenue to supporting a new association built specifically for this. I can't do it alone and I shouldn't be the one running it, so I'm starting conversations with people who could take the lead. If that's you, or you know who it should be, get in touch. Thank you for ten years. Let's see what the next ten look like.

Most Canadians suffer from this same thing. Like frogs in a pot that is slowly coming to a boil.

Well it’s safe to say trying to bring the 🇯🇵 egg salad sandwich to @7ElevenCanada 🇨🇦 was a flop.