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Party, Party, Paarrtaay! on 7.26.2010 - On August 28th, 2010 White Oak Stables will be holding it's second annual Chat Parties. What's a Chat Party? It's where we play games, answer trivia, and get a chance to win lots of free stuff while having fun at the same time. Prizes include FREE upgrades, game credits, account money, horse or pony halters, books, jewelry, t-shirts, journals, horse games and toys! New at this year's party!! Win a personalized White Oak Stables name plate for your horse -- available to purchase fall 2010 at s...New Servers Up & Running! on 5.28.2010 - I want to give a special thanks to everyone for being so patient while we moved all of our games to brand new servers. Both of our new machine are 300% faster than what we had before so the performance of our games is better than ever. EMAIL UPDATE! The jade@whiteoakstables.net email address is up and running again. Additionally we're no longer offering email addresses for whiteoakstables.net. Instead English register large stable and blue ribbon stable members will get new features to replac...
Email Update & New Graphics on 1.12.2010 - We're still having problems with our email since switching to new servers. If you need to contact us about one of our games please use jade@design1online.com. Thank you for your patience at this time. On a lighter note we have lots of brand new graphics on White Oak Stables with...
Server Changes on 12.9.2009 - All this week we're converting all of our games over to our brand new servers. These servers are about 300% faster than what we've been using before and that should make all of our members very happy campers. There's also a brand new layout for the homepage of White Oak Stables. Enjoy!...
Quater Horses on 11.13.2009 - The new sketches for Quarter Horses are here. We expect they will be available by the end of the month in solid colors and with the new paint markings. Click on the picture for a closer l...
Thoroughbreds on 10.18.2009 - New horse images are up for Thoroughbreds on White Oak Stables for both adult and foal horses. Problems with horse images not aging and training problems in the racing register have a...
Recent Updates on 9.2.2009 - Now you can stay in the loop on Black Star Kennels. Go to your account > settings and turn on notifications for your game inbox, message boards and helpful or unhelpful posts. Become a fan of White Oak Stables on Facebook and you'll get updates and a look at exclusive events. You'll also get a chance to win game credits, prizes, and you could even win a free upgrade....
International Gold Cup, October 2009 on 7.27.2009 - Join White Oak Stables in October for a day at the races. Located in the Plains, VA the Gold Cup Races are the oldest steeplechase race on the eastern coast. While you're there be sure to pick up a copy of the program and check out our ad for White Oak Stables. I'll be in one of the VIP tents and I hope to have a banner up so please stop by and say hello -- you never know, you may win a FREE upgrade. Tickets are $55.00 a car (up to 6 people) if you purchase them ahead of time. Prices go up...
New Features In Progress on 6.16.2009 - White Oak Stables is in for a real treat! New features recently finished or currently underway include the following: Automatic upgrade creation. Once you pay for your upgrade it will be added directly onto your account. Easier care of your horses available ...
Whoa-Horsie: Racing Towards the Finish on 5.18.2009 - The new layout for whoa-horsie.com (WH) is finally up! It features an authentic "western" look and feel and a host of brand new graphics to go along with it. Currently we don't have a release date for WH but it it still expected to open this year. Twenty-five invitati...
Horsetastic! on 3.6.2009 - Introducing a brand new comic on White Oak Stables. Horsetastic is the tale of four friends and the quirks of their day to day lives. The comic is currently on trial basis, and if it gets enough positive feedback 'we'd like to make it a permanent addition to the website. So sit back, rela...
Racing To Victory on 2.22.2009 - This week White Oak Stables has had a lot happening. There's a new help wiki that all members can use to create, edit and modify the game help files. This is a huge improvement over the old member guide that was infrequently updated. In the racing register new avatar pictures have been added to the spotlights pages and message boards. These avatars will also show up in the member's online list. Since posting pictures in member names is so popu...
Dynamic Horse Images on 1.27.2009 - New images are under way for White Oak Stables. These images will be generated dynamically, which means breedings will result in new coat and marking colors. If you have an picture URL up for your horse you won't see the new images. The foal images are scheduled to start changing over by the end of this week. We're also adding yearling images for young horses and new adult horse images. Are you a line artist? We're still looking for more line art horse pictures. We need horses of various ages...
Site Under Construction on 1.9.2009 - Please bare with us while we undergo sorely needed facial-reconstructive surgery....
VGXPO Success! on 11.24.2008 - Wow, I had a great time and I got to meet a ton of really great people!! Steve Reid and Gano Haine gave excellent advice on how to pitch a game idea. They stressed topics like tailoring to your target audience, discussing key factors in your game, avoiding things that would make someone's eyes glass over (like talking someone through the opening video scene -- kill me now!), to catching executives attention with creative strategies. One example they gave ...
VGXPO Meet N Greet List on 11.17.2008 - Here's a list of everyone I'm planning to talk to/meet this coming Saturday. Heh, I'm bringing resumes, business cards, and hopefully my finished business plan. Matt Shaw - Chief Technology Officer at Mythic Entertainment (EA Games) Ravi Mehta - VP of Publishing at Viximo Chris Oltyan - Director of Product Development at ...
Design1online.com to Attend East Coast Games Summit on 11.6.2008 - It's time to be out and about! Design1online.com will be attending the upcoming VGXPO at the Pennsylvania Convention Center on November 22nd and 23rd. Hopefully we'll get a change to talk face to face with some of the big names speaking for companies like Acclaim Entertainment, Electronic Arts, Bioware and many more. We're also hoping for the chance to "Pitch A Game Idea" and get feedback from leading industry contacts as well as pick up...
Ubisoft & Best Buy Affiliations? on 10.10.2008 - So I'm finally breaking down and hiring a financial adviser for my little business. Her name is Jacqui Shea and she's a doll!! She helped my mom invest her money in this horrible stock market right now (yes!! forget TV, now is the time to buy! 30% discount, whoo hoo!!). It turns out her associate has contacts with the marketing director at Ubisoft and is willing to hook me up. He also knows some big directors from Best Buy who give out ...
Whiteoakstables.net Server Problem on 8.20.2008 - Hey guys, for anyone whose reading this I want to let you know we're having some Apache problems with the server. I upgraded it last night and it's gone all funky for just my WOS site. It should be back up and running shortly. Please pass on the word. Thanks. UPDATE - 9.22.2008 Turns out the software upgrades I made changed the php version from 4 to 5 in my conf fileseven though I didn't have php 5 compiled. This was causing core dumps all over the place [core.#] in the public_html and oth...
Austin Game Developer's Conference on 7.25.2008 - Bruce Sterling to Keynote Austin GDC "Computer Entertainment 35 Years From Today" Presented by Bruce Sterling, Science Fiction Author When Pong emerged 36 years ago, it broke the m...
Blue Imp Ajax Chat Modifications on 6.10.2008 - Here are a bunch of modifications I'm working on for the Blue Imp AJAX chat I've started using for all online games. If these are not available on your AJAX chat at the time it was originally installed you can have these modifications upgraded free of charge once they're done. Admin Panel designate moderators, and other chat administrators view/edit banned list make your own custom style sheets upload and delete emoticons and sound...
Server Downtime on 6.7.2008 - First of all I want to apologize for all of my websites being down for a while. Both of my servers and are provided through a company called ThePlanet.com in Houston Texas, one of the leading server providers in the United States. On May 30th, 2008 there was an electrical fire from wires short circuiting. As a result of the fire, three walls of one room were burned down. The power to the entire building was shut off as well. On May 31st I contacted ThePlanet to find out why neither of my ser...
Now Offering AJAX Chat on 5.23.2008 - Design1online.com is now proud to offer a AJAX chat room as a part of its basic online game package. Now, instead of having a refreshing PHP chatroom, reloading pages is no longer an issue. The chatroom is a modded version of the free open source AJAX chat from blueimp. It comes fully integrated into your game's control panel and your game. Only members of your game will be able to enter the chat and they always enter with their username...
Vancouver International Game Summit features Call of Duty 4, May 21- 22 on 5.11.2008 - T...
Potential Game Engine on 4.13.2008 - So the bad news is I spent a good 5-6 hours downloading a lot of game engines, perusing through the soure code, and trying to complie it on my machine. Most of them were very annoying and I ended up giving up fairly quickly. A few of them had really, really slow FPS rates (*cough* OGRE *cough*) and if they were slow on my computer they have no chance in a multiplayer setup. The good news is I found one I really liked. It's called Irrlicht. The engine is completely open source so I can add to ...
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