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Founder Story
I grew up around horses and spent years with them, until grown-up life got in the way. I still wanted that connection, so I started looking for it in games. What I found… wasn’t for me.
Everything was built for children: rainbows, unicorns and pastel colours. I couldn’t find the game I wanted to play, so I learned how to code and built it myself. It wasn’t perfect, but I shipped it anyway.
Horse Reality was born and slowly found its audience. Some players became teammates. Somewhere along the way I realised I wasn’t just building a game anymore. I was building a studio. What started as one person’s hobby project was, in 2023, recognised with the Awesome Achievements Award at the Dutch Game Awards. Pretty good for a game that began with amateur code and too big a scope.
Today, Studio Deloryan is an international team creating games together. The name on the door hasn’t changed, but what it represents has. It is no longer about one person.
We believe great games come from happy team members. So instead of chasing what everyone else does, we built our own version of “normal”.