For those interested in seeing what happened during Galactic Civilizations'' development, both good and bad, Gamasutra has a post mortem up that Stardock''s Brad Wardell wrote with Alex Dunne from Game Developer. This post mortem is written with Game Developers in mind. http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20030507/wardell_01.shtml It''ll ask you to create an account but it''s free and pretty easy and contains a lot of interesting details on the nature of developing a PC game in ...
Stardock releases WindowBlinds 4 Windows XP gets skinned For Immediate Release Tuesday, April 15, 2003 Canton MI – Stardock released WindowBlinds 4 shareware today. WindowBlinds is a program that extends the Windows user interface to be fully “skinnable”. Once installed, users can change their title bars, scrollbars, push buttons, Start bar, and virtually every other aspect of the Windows GUI using “visual styles” that the user can make or download from the Internet. By defa...
ObjectDock is a combination program launcher and task manager that is presented as a dock that can be placed on any edge on the screen. When the mouse is placed over an item, it magnifies itself. Users can replace the images used for tasks and programs and submit packaged themes to websites such as WinCustomize.com. New in version 0.90: -Ability to have outward borders on backgrounds added, to allow for simulation of a shadow on the outside of backgrounds. See"Default with Shadow" ...
WindowBlinds 4 has some great new features including: * Command prompt skinning * Skinning of virtually every element of the Windows XP GUI * Skinning of the logoff, shellstyles, and please wait dialogs * Smart painting - makes most WindowBlinds enhanced visual styles run nearly as fast as "classic" * Enhanced integration into Windows XP greatly increasing compatibility with nearly all programs * A new configuration program that makes the features of WindowBlinds mo...
SkinStudio is a program that allows users to create their own Windows GUI. You can make your own title bars, push buttons, radio buttons, Start bars, and virtually every other control. You then save your creation as a visual style that can be used by WindowBlinds to apply it. Version 3 of SkinStudio has a much enhanced user interface. It allows users to work on multiple visual styles at once, can change the color of GUI elements on the fly, and has a much easier and cleaner user inter...
Stardock has released a new version of ObjectBar. ObjectBar is a program that lets users create or download their own bars. The Windows Start bar, Mac''s Finder, Linux Wharfs, etc. are all examples of the kinds of things ObjectBar can do. It essentially integrates the best OS interface features into a single program. The new version allows users to add hot-keys to any item on any part. These hotkeys not only can launch programs but access Windows system commands, URLs, and more. Objec...
Check out the Galactic Civilizations trailer. It presents some of the back story on the game and is just plain cool. GalCiv will be released on March 26th.
Each year the Game Developer''s Conference hosts the Independent Games Festival. A contest in which small developers try to create new and innovative games. These games are usually done on a tight budget and in a short amount of time. But the games are often excellent in quality and truly original. Stardock''s Brad Wardell was one of the judges this year and has written his thoughts on the games over at Quarter To Three. Check it out.
Stardock has set the release date for WindowBlinds version 4. Tuesday, March 25th. WindowBlinds 4 will initially only be available for Windows XP. Version 4 for Windows 98, ME, and 2000 users is expected out not too long after. The main new features of WindowBlinds 4 include: 1) Vastly increased performance. WB 4 makes heavy use of new internal Windows XP technologies that allow much faster GUI drawing. One particular new technology is called "Smart Painting" which greatly decreases ...
Stardock''s Brad Wardell gives an indepth interview with FiringSquad.com, one of the most popular game sites on the net, about the development and features of Galactic Civilizations (https://www.galciv.com). Check it out!
CursorXP is a program that adds a host of cool special effects to Windows 2000 or Windows XP mouse cursors. There are hundreds of available enhanced mouse cursors available at WinCustomize.com (https://www.wincustomize.com). CursorXP 1.3 adds faster and higher quality shadow effects, supports non-administrator accounts, supports hyperthreaded enabled CPUs, supports high DPI resolutions, and more. CursorXP cursors not only can be incredibly cool looking but can be useful as well. ...
CursorXP is a program that adds a host of cool special effects to Windows 2000 or Windows XP mouse cursors. There are hundreds of available enhanced mouse cursors available at WinCustomize.com (https://www.wincustomize.com). CursorXP 1.3 adds faster and higher quality shadow effects, supports non-administrator accounts, supports hyperthreaded enabled CPUs, supports high DPI resolutions, and more. CursorXP cursors not only can be incredibly cool looking but can be useful as well. ...