The Creation Space!

The Black Pearl rules are changing a bit, and you'll "able to use you artistic talents on 3 types of products."

*The horse coats- The Golden Apple
* The Companions- The Horn of Gold
* Backgrounds for the horse's page- Helio's Ray


(Picture provided by Howrse)

The last one is "Donkey" as you may have noticed! If your coat isn't selected, you will not be refunded 2 passes.

**Helios' Ray :

Starting around mid June, you will be able to create personalized backgrounds for the horse's page. Howrse has already made a few as the one displayed below but you will be able to make them yourselves.


(Picture provided by Howrse)

The task boxes go above the background as well as the horse's picture, so avoid putting too much detail that won't show up!

**Horn of Gold

You will need to create a sleeping and awake version of the coat.

**Creation Space

Each month you'll be able to propose your artistic creations. They will then be submitted to the other players for them to vote.
Once the voting session is over the Howrse support staff will select and integrate the most popular ones on the game. The creations that are not selected are refunded.

**Submitting your art work

Submitting a coat costs 2 passes. If your coat doesn't respect the rules (wrong format, photography, presence of a rider, …), you will not be refunded. The aim is to make everyone more responsible of what coats are sent in.

Don't waste your passes and time to create a pegacorn (pegasus unicorn) as they aren't allowed on Howrse.

New background templates:

- companions (Horn of Gold) :
http://www.howrse.com/media/equideoOuranos/image/produits/gabarits/corne/modele.png
- background (Helios’ Ray) :
http://www.howrse.com/media/equideoOuranos/image/produits/gabarits/rayon/modele.png
- Horse (Golden Apple) :
http://www.howrse.com/media/equideoOuranos/image/produits/gabarits/pomme/modele.png

New creations can be added every month.

(with the exception of May, when the coats are introduced – then all the schedule will be squished into 2 weeks).

1. 1st – 6th, proposing illustrations
   Use the black pearl to turn in a new artwork.
2. Validation.
   Howrse team will remove any illustrations that don’t meet the rules.
3. 11th – 19th Voting
   Players vote for the illustrations they want.
4. Selection
   The most popular illustrations are selected & sorted by category.
5. 26th at 7:00 GT
   The top illustrations are published and ready to be used.

Once the voting session is over the creations that are not selected are refunded.

The Creation Space is common to all the language versions of Howrse. That means you’ll be able to put a coat made by a Polish or Brazilian player on your horses. This also means your creations will be available for the players of the other language versions.

Some coats will be available all the time (even if a player deletes his account) and others will be deactivated after a varying amount of uses to become rare coats.

The day when the coat is added to the game, the author will receive passes and equus :

• 10,000e
• 50 passes for a Golden Apple coat with no limitation on uses, 25 passes for a coat that does.
• 25 passes for a Helios’ Ray landscape
• 15 passes for a Horn of Gold companion coat

Plese Note:

-Ow has mentioned they may put some coats in the system that don’t go through with voting, just to add some more variety to what is going to be available

- Action boxes on a horse's page will hide a part of the background so don't put important details where they are supposed to be.

- The Companions coats available will only be those found in the breeder store against equus so : Swallow, Cat, Rabbit, Monkey and Goat.

- The template for the Companions is cut in two parts as there is a sleeping and an awake state. You must absolutely draw both states with the awake state above the sleeping state. That's very important !!!
- You can now submit donkey coats!

Everything will be added to the game next week.

**What happens to the old coats?

The old golden apple coats stay, and you can still add them to your horses. The creators will still get passes for each use as before. However, the old coats are not compatible with Helios’ Ray. You can now retire old coats after 100 uses instead of 200.