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+Fan Art Competition Winners: View Fan Art Contests from 2009 and 2011.
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+Parents! Please click for some important information: Parent's Guide
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+CURRENTLY: 12 Players Online Now 11 Subscribers Online Now 0 Moderators Online Now 3,981 Active Accounts
ABOUT:
+Horse Isle is a vast multi-player horse based world. It allows for many players to interact while searching for wild
+horses roaming the lands. Once you have a horse, you can train it, take care of it, and compete with other players. Although the world graphics are simple 2D, they have been beautifully designed to create an interesting and vast world to explore. This land is completely non-violent. A great place for any aged player to have fun.
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+You can play Horse Isle for FREE! or $5/mo USD game memberships provide many benefits.
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+ FEATURES:
+Several different entertaining game activities:
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Capturing, training, and competing with your horses. These involve racing, jumping, dressage - all many-player games. Winning these events takes a combination of your horse's abilities, and your skill at the particular game.
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Completing mini-games throughout the world for fun and game money. Many are multiplayer also.
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Solving story-based quests and adventures by talking with characters in the game. There is a large variation of quests, from buried treasure, labyrinths, and painting, to simply returning someone's books!
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Buying and building up your very own ranch, making a piece of Horse Isle your very own!
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Naming and taking care of your horses. Finding them better tack, or even finding your horse a nice pet!
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Interacting with other players via chat, private chat, postal messages, actions, trading, competitive mini-games, and cooperative mini-games. Group activities include drawing rooms, music rooms, and poetry rooms!
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Searching the world for buried treasures, rare items, and hidden adventures.
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Trying to get the highest score or best times of many different tracked games.
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+Ever-expanding content within the world includes:
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20+ unique communities located on different islands and climates. With unique weather systems.
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Over 100 unique horse breeds, very detailed with professional renderings of each breed in each color. More added regularly.
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500+ computer characters (residents) which you can interact with to complete adventures and learn things.
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500+ Adventure Quests. Completing these can earn you awards and bonuses.
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Hundreds of unique objects that can be found in the world or handled during quests.
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60+ unique minigames, many horse-based.
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Many completely original soundtracks and game musics, professionally produced.
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+REQUIRES:
+The game requires Flash 8. So any computer with Flash 8 should be able to run it (PC, MAC, and Linux (with Flash Player 9)).
+However it does use a lot of graphics, so a slow computer may have troubles. Any computer bought in the last 3-5 years should be fine. It also needs quick Internet, so dialup users may not enjoy the game fully.
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+Horse Isle tested and developed using Firefox Browser
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+Please keep in mind, we receive a large volume of email, so if you can find your answer in our HELP CENTER, or by asking other players in the game we really appreciate this, As it frees us up to work on adding content to the game. Every Email/Abuse report pulls us away from adding content to the game.
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+TOP REASONS PEOPLE EMAIL US, PLEASE READ OVER FOR QUICK ANSWERS!!!
+Q: Add breeding A: Read why NOT under Help Centers Top 10 Questions.
+Q: Add a certain breed, redo art A: We add breeds as we can in OUR OWN order, and ignore ALL comments about redoing art.
+Q: Change my password A: Bottom of SERVER LIST Page there is a tool for this.
+Q: Change my username A: Current policy is only one name change for subscribers once per year.
+Q: Help with a game quest A: We cannot give quest help from this email, try asking in the game.
+Q: I'd like to be a Mod A: Our current policy is to find mods on our own.
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+We prefer that this form be used, otherwise you can email direct at: support@horseisle.com
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+ Horse Isle was envisioned and designed by Joe and Miranda Durbin. Miranda grew up loving horses. Joe grew up
+loving to work with computers and wanted to start his own company. They noticed that there weren't many games out
+there for horse lovers that were in depth, challenging, and more involved than simple web pages. So together they
+created Horse Isle. Artists from around the world joined the project and contributed artwork, writing, and music.
+Miranda and Joe's family also pitched in. Mothers, sisters, and cousins started helping with beta testing, island
+design, character and quest creation. Now that the game has gone live many people help with continued development and moderating the game to be sure that Horse Isle continues to be a safe and fun place for everyone.
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+The artists and contributors of Horse Isle:
+(Please have parental permission and guidance before visiting any websites mentioned below, as they are not a part of Horse Isle.)
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+Emma Salamanca, SPAIN (Mizuko)
+ -Most Map Tiles/Pixel Art
+ -Most Object Icons
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+Melissa Go Salazar, PHILIPPINES (Megs)
+http://www.megosa.deviantart.com/
+ -Flash Scenes + mini game touchups
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+Jenny Stout, USA(UT) (Jenny)
+ -Horse Views for each breed
+ -Tack and Companion Art + Mini Games
+ -Horse Animations
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+Joe Schwebke, USA(WI) (musicjoe)
+ - All Game BGM Composer
+ - All Game Shop BGM's Composer
+ - Several Mini Game Musics
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+Autumn Durbin, USA(MN) (Noodle)
+ -Character Scripts and Quests
+ -Character And Description Design
+ -Support Mail
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+Sara Nyberg USA(MN) (Sara)
+ -Town & Character Design
+ -World Beautification
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+Mary Ahlstrand USA(MN) (NightMare)
+ -Technical Editing and Alpha testing
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+Fara Shimbo USA(CO) (SpottedRose)
+ -Characters & Quests & Descriptions
+ -Beginner Guide
+ -Horse Isle Workbook
+ -Support Mail
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+Robyn Lari CANADA
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+ -Pixel Artist (horses, some chars, etc.)
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+ -Library stories & Horse Quizzes
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+Players that have written characters, quests and descriptions.
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+ -(WriterMom)
+ -(Jule)
+ -(CheshireKitty)
+ -(Vetiver)
+ -(Bazjack)
+ -(LinuxDude)
+ -(BklynFilly)
+ -(Nuova)
+ -(DesertMorn)
+ -(Minet)
+ -(Miri)
+ -(BonsaiWolf)
+ -(Artemis8)-beta quest writer
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+Jenephyr Milligan, USA(UT)
+ - Many Character Scripts and Quests
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+Julien Correard, FRANCE
+ - Several Mini Game musics
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+Miranda Durbin USA(MN) (Miranda)
+ -Development Direction
+ -Horse Isle Technicals
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+Joe Durbin USA(MN) (Joe)
+ -Programming Server
+ -Programming Client
+ -Art/Creative Direction
+ -Programming MiniGames
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+BETA TESTERS: Marked in game with awards
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+Expected Behavior for Players, Moderators, and Admins on Horse Isle.
+Following these guidelines will help promote a fun game experience for all.
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+Purpose:
+To enjoy the game.
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+Do NOT ruin the enjoyment of Horse Isle by another player through negative
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+If harassed/upset/annoyed by another player, use the MUTE system to mute the
+other player, DO NOT make things worse by fighting with another
+player, this is considered to be both players faults regardless of who
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+Do NOT threaten to report players. If you have a problem with another
+player use the MUTE system and if it's serious, then file an abuse report.
+There is no need to tell them or threaten them. Threatening another player
+with an abuse report, especially when the other player did nothing wrong could
+easily get you in trouble.
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+Do NOT be offended when a player Mutes you, anyone can Mute anyone for any
+reason. Some people are not as "talkative" as others and don't appreciate
+being chatted to much. Just try to find others that appreciate
+chatting with you.
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+Do NOT be offended or upset if a player does not answer your Private
+Message. Many players may be away from the game for a bit or are busy
+doing something else. Replying to PM's can be a lot of work depending on
+the situation the player is in.
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+Players should reply positively when possible. If you have nothing
+positive/helpful to say, please just do not reply.
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+Players should never cheat/lie/trick another player into making an unfair trade.
+Stealing horses, money, etc. in this manner is an instant BAN.
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+Players are 100% responsible for their accounts. Do not let siblings use
+your account and do not give out your password to ANYONE.
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+Players should always respect moderators when they ask you to do
+something. If you feel a moderator is not being fair, or violating
+moderator expected behavior below, you can email us directly. In the mean
+time, respect the moderator.
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+Note: When the horses have a bridle on it shows the reins hanging down. This was for drawing/fitting purposes only. Please never leave your own, real life horse with its reins hanging down in this manner. It is very dangerous for your horse.
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+Purpose: To have mature, positive players who can be trusted to
+quell bad/rule violating behavior from within the game.
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+Moderators should be a good role model of all Expected Player Behaviors.
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+Moderators should be fair in any use of moderator abilities. Never used
+for personal reasons.
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+Moderators are not required to help other players. Moderators are players
+like everyone else. Sometimes they are busy, or working on their own things.
+Moderators are under no obligation to help. DO NOT be upset when they do
+not have time to help you, and be grateful when they do. Try making your
+requests for help to anyone on the server if it's a general game issue.
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+When to Prison Isle: This is the least severe of Moderator actions. Mostly
+done if a player is physically being in the way of others in the game, or
+harassing, etc.. No Violation Points are assigned for this.
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+When to Mute: In any case where a player is not following Horse Isle Rules after
+being asked to follow the specific rule they are violating. Muting should
+happen right away when a player is purposefully and seriously violating
+profanity rules, etc. Mute times may range from 5 minutes to 2 full days
+depending on severity. An Admin will review each muting case and
+assign Violation points if warranted.
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+When to Delete player/horse/ranch Profiles: When a clear violation of Personally
+identifiable info is present such as age/phone/address/im/email/etc. (Real life
+information on the players horses, or other non-identifiable info is
+acceptable). Also, any profanity/filter avoidance is cause for
+profile deletion. When profiles are deleted, they are reviewed by an admin
+and violation points assigned based on content.
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+When to Ban: Two Moderators need to agree to ban a player in order for it to
+work. This should only be used on SEVERE Cases where MUTES do not solve
+the problem. Or where a new player has connected with a clearly
+offensive name.
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+Moderators need to PM players when there is a problem. Such as when a
+player is spamming, begging, causing troubles, etc. This causes the player
+to not be singled out in global. It also tends to help contain the
+situation better and keep it from escalating into something worse.
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+Moderators are not required to go to a different server even if there are not
+any moderators there.
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+It's great for moderators to have buddies, but they must not be treated as
+favorites. This means the friends of moderators should be treated the same
+as any other player with regard to punishment for not following the rules.
+Moderators found 'playing favorites' could have their moderator privileges taken
+away.
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+Purpose: To make sure the moderators are being fair, balanced, and
+positive role-models. To make final situational judgements. To judge
+abuse reports. etc. Our main goal is to ensure an environment where all
+players of any age can enjoy themselves.
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+Admins should be fair, and uphold the rules set forth.
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+Being fair requires being strict. When too many violations occur, We
+MUST remove accounts and block game access in more serious cases. We
+cannot take excuses of siblings being responsible, etc. Each player
+is responsible for what happens on their account.
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