Fan Recreation of Bella Sara Stable Game

This is a fan recreation of the Bella Sara horse stable game intended for archival purposes since the original is no longer available.

The recreation includes the land, air and water stables along with multiple horses from the orignal game.

Set Up

To start, you will first need to download the code from this repository. This can be done using git or by downloading the .zip folder directly in the browser.

Since JavaScript has been used here in place of Flash, Flash is not required to play this recreation. However, since modern browsers place a few limitations on files opened directly in the browser, this game does need to be running from a server to work.

The following are a few ways to set up a server locally (on your own computer):

• If you have VSCode installed, install the Live Server extension in VSCode, open this project in VSCode and then press 'Go Live' in the bottom right to open the game in the browser.

• If you have python installed (it should be preinstalled on Macs), navigate to the project folder and run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080 (or python -m http.server 8080 for python version 3).

• A dockerfile is also provided, so if you install Docker, you can run the game locally by running the following after navigating to the project folder:

  docker build -t dockersite .
  docker run -dit --name dockersite-container -p 8080:80 dockersite
  

• Some other options are also listed here.

After starting a server locally, you can usually access it from http://localhost:8080/.

Credits and References

All the original textures, animations, sounds and the gameplay itself were taken from the horse care game on Bella Sara and belong to the Bella Sara Company, LLC.

• Most of the spritees, animations and sounds come from a recovered cache containing many of the original game files recovered by Crystallinetearz and extracted by Mewfantasy and al_2713 (from discord)
• Additional screen recordings and screenshots of the game have been taken from the following and have been used / referenced whilst remaking the game:
  • The Bella Sara Wiki has many different screenshots of the stable and different horses.
  • This video was heavily referenced for recreating the actual gameplay.
• Other tools used:
  • The Phaser game framework has been used to keep most of the coding pretty simple.
  • Spine Animations are used for animating the horses
  • The Leshy Sprite Sheet Tool and Codeshack Sprite Sheet Generator have been used to generate the texture atlas files and sprite sheets.
  • This frame to time calculator was used to calculate some of the timings and delays