Amberley Isle

Amberley Isle is a horse-riding adventure for phone, tablet or computer. Click on Play, type your name and you are in the saddle. The island is about two kilometres across and the sea is visible from every coast. At its heart is a grand equestrian estate: a sixteen-stall stable barn with a hay store and tack room, a cobbled yard, a manor house in its grounds, a dressage arena with letters, paddocks and a ten-fence cross-country course. Beyond the estate gates are forests, a lake with a jetty, a harbour, a lighthouse, a hilltop viewpoint and long sandy beaches made for a gallop. Your horse moves the way a real one does. Walk, trot, canter and gallop each have their own rhythm, your rider rises to the trot and leans into a jump, and the hoofbeats are real recordings that change with the ground under you: soft on grass, crunching on gravel, ringing on the yard and the road. Horses whinny to each other across the fields. The day turns in a full cycle of sunrise, noon, long twilights and starry nights, and the weather drifts between clear skies, cloud, mist and rain. You start with Biscuit, a free Welsh Cob, and earn horseshoes by riding for the people of the island: star trails to follow, dressage tests in the arena, cross-country rounds, deliveries, and caring for the horses. Spend them on one of fifteen more horses, each with its own coat, stats and price, from steady cobs to fast, bold jumpers. Your horse needs feeding and watering, and gets tired if you push it, so you will learn to look after it as well as ride it. Dismount to walk the island on foot, whistle and your horse comes to you. Play on your own, or host an island and give your friends a four-letter code. Everyone rides their own horse in the same world, with the same time of day and weather, and chats as they go. Progress is saved in your browser, so you can put your horse away in its stall and pick up where you left off next time. Works in any modern browser. On a phone it runs full screen in landscape with on-screen controls, and you can add it to your home screen like an app.