All I'll say is that I don't believe horse riding is such an impossible feat, and in fact I believe it can be done because we already did more or less have it in place for THP back when we were working on the quest with the Dance of Rememberence tileset. That said, Moosh is not wrong, the SotW was a mockup - at least in terms of the horse riding (edit: and the subcreen, I somehow completely forgot about that when reading this topic. This is on me, it is absolutely a mockup as well, though if it could be done I would love to see it!). The screen itself is part of the overworld that would have been THP.
That's not saying that we're working on THP these days though. I'd love to, but I've failed at making this game so many times at this point that I'm not going to make any promises. Read that how you will.
Edit: the old demo Moosh mentioned is a little hard to find in playable form, though LTM was kind enough to dig it out from his own archive the other day, so I might as well add the link if you want to give it a go. Mind you, you need to use ZC build 984 to play it. Otherwise you will run into bugs.
https://www.dropbox....xDemo2.qst?dl=0
Though keep in mind, this is all old stuff. Even if we were to one day finish THP, what you see in that demo will not be in that final game. Maybe you'll recognize parts of it, but my ideas of what THP should be have changed a lot since then, so consider this demo more of a standalone mini quest with a stupid cliffhanger ending.
Edited by Migokalle, 21 March 2017 - 02:50 PM.