New Features In Progress
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...
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Girl Gamers: Statistics & Trends
A few months ago I surveyed over 500 members from my online game whiteoakstables.net, a realistic horse game. White Oak Stables has almost exclusively female players. The findings are as follows: Age: 10: 2%...
PHP Tutorial: Using the Google Maps API
Here’s a nice piece of code from a Zend Software Engineer. This shows you an example of how to use the google maps API with PHP: http://www.zimuel.it/blog/?p=23
Internet Explorer FIX: Unknown Runtime Error Using innerHTML & Ajax
I found that if you’re calling an ajax request that sets an innerHTML value you sometimes get an unknown runtime error in Internet Explorer. Of course everything works fine in Firefox (why isn’t Microsoft...
List Of Game Engines
Crystal Space 3D Dark GDK G3D Engine – good tool libraries, large free model collection jMonkey Engine Panda3D Torque Engine – very popular with independent developers MMO Specific Engines Unity 3D – in browser...
Crystal Reports FIX: sacommlayer.dll error ‘80004005’ Invalid character
One of two things: 1) Report needs to be verified. 2) Report is corrupted, sorry but you need to re-create it.
Whoa-Horsie: Racing Towards the Finish
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...
Crunching the Numbers: Video Game Industry
According industry studies conducted by the Entertainment Software Association (ESA), approximately 41% of Americans have purchased or are expected to purchase video games in 2008. Sixty-five percent of American households play computer or video...
Javascript Property Names for CSS getElementById
document.getElementById(“id_name_here”).style.property = your_value_here; CSS Property JavaScript Equivalent background background background-attachment backgroundAttachment background-color backgroundColor background-image backgroundImage background-position backgroundPosition background-repeat backgroundRepeat border border border-bottom borderBottom border-bottom-color borderBottomColor border-bottom-style borderBottomStyle border-bottom-width borderBottomWidth border-color borderColor border-left borderLeft border-left-color...
Pits of Doom Lesson 8: Monsters & Field of View
In the last lesson we added a huge amount of functionality to our little game. Now we can join the game if we don’t already have an account, login and access only our account...
