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Michael Calderone (Left) and Gary Darveaux (Right), co-founders of HRS, discuss Horse Racing Fantasy with Nick Hines (Center)
Living Our Dream
Have you lived your dream? Have you done exactly what you wanted to do with your life? Until recently, we haven't. We are a group of individuals with specific skill sets – one with expertise in programming/engineering, one with online and Internet marketing expertise and one with extensive experience in building some of the most successful online tournament games in the world – all who have something in common. We have a great love for horse racing. This fun, exciting and amazing sport that captures beauty and grace like no other has always been in the back of our minds as something we wished to participate in, help to build and watch it become more extensively recognized. However, we are all too old to be trainers (at least some of us), too tall to be jockeys (all of us), we have to work for a living, so we can't be professional fans or handicappers and we really don't have the bank rolls to be big owners. So, what we have created is the next best thing to being any one or all of these by utilizing our individual talents in a joint effort to create what we believe isthe most exciting horse race fantasy game ever developed.
We formed our business entity, Horse Racing Simulation, LLC and went to work. Gary, the main engineering force behind the game, has spent over seven years developing the game engine with over 100,000 lines of code, factoring in almost 1000 race attributes. We challenge any horse racing game in the world to come anywhere close to the realism we convey.
Michael Calderone (Center) and Gary Darveaux (Right) talk about an upcoming race event with Gary Brenson, one of the top starters in thouroughbred racing
Jack, (a friend and advisor) is an industry leader in developing games and the founder of TournamentGames.com, the oldest online skill game company in the world, and provided us with the most powerful tournament management platform ever developed. Having put ten years into continuous development and still going at it at 71 years of age, he adds tremendous value to our Jockey Power game (shhh– we're not talking about that yet).
Then, there's Mike, a horse fan since the age of 15 who actually raced harness horses as a driver (don't get too excited; he only had one professional win.) He is an astute handicapper (don't worry, Gary, you're good, too) with an uncanny ability to develop successful marketing programs and partnership programs via the Internet, having worked with some of the largest gaming companies in the world (Party Gaming, Party Poker). Mike understands what it takes to make a game super-fun and exciting to ensure that users have a great time playing it.
As a group, we were missing one key component and sought out one of the best 3-D graphic design companies in the world. (Sorry, can't tell you their name; that's our secret. You never know when competitors are going to be jealous of our game graphics.) We begged them to work with a small company like ours, to believe in our vision and help us build out our dream, which they did.
Mike (center) and Gary (left) pose with one of California's top trainers, Jeff Mullins (right)
Horse Racing Simulation LLC, (HRS) developers of the soon-to-be-released Jockey Power Game (the most mind-blowing skill game you will ever play), is committed to making Jockey Power the absolute leader in skill games. But more importantly, our objective as individuals and as a company is to create enhanced awareness of what we believe is the most exciting sport a person can participate in – horse racing. It is just a myth that horse racing is the sport of kings. The true saying should be that horse racing makes you feel like a king (or a queen – women love our game, too).
Our Horse Racing Fantasy Game (click here to check it out) is the most exciting and educational horse race game out there. You can be the spectator betting with play money. You can be the trainer of the great horses throughout history including Barbero, Sea Biscuit, War Admiral, Secretariat and thousands more. You can also be the jockey of any one of these great horses utilizing realistic attributes and amazing 3-D graphics. Or, you can do all three. While you play this fun, exciting and amazing game, you will also be learning about horse racing as a whole at your own pace.
Well, that's enough about us. We love horses as well as racing. Part of our goal at HRS is to develop programs to support and protect these beautiful and gracious animals in their second lives when their racing days are over. To sum it up – we're crazy dudes hoping to live our dream and, at the same time, do some good for an industry that we believe is under-recognized. We hope you have one hell of a good time playing our games. So, giddyup and get going!
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