Microsoft and Stardock Release Rise of Nations Visual Style
Thursday, July 3, 2003 by koop | Discussion: WinCustomize News
What games do games developers play when not working on their own games?The team here at Stardock has been fortunate enough to have had the chance to play Rise of Nations, the real time strategy game developed by Big Huge Games for Microsoft, since the Beta release. Our marketing people worked with Microsoft to create a visual style for the game. The visual style was created by Essorant (Tim Dagger) to celebrate the game and is available for download exclusively from WinCustomize.
Special thanks to John Dongelmans of Microsoft.
Download: http://storage.stardock.com/files/riseofnations_thememanager.exe
sig101
Reply #3 Thursday, July 3, 2003 7:37 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, July 3, 2003 7:37 PM
Wow, how very, very cool. 
Congrats to you essorant and thanks to all for making it publicly available. 
Congrats to you essorant and thanks to all for making it publicly available. 
mormegil
Reply #4 Thursday, July 3, 2003 11:37 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, July 3, 2003 11:37 PM
Beautiful! Great work! for a great game to. to thumbs up!
Brock Beesley
Reply #6 Friday, July 4, 2003 12:03 PM
Reply #6 Friday, July 4, 2003 12:03 PM
Essorant,
Thanks for a superb skin . . . I really like your work and I use more of your skins than anyone else. Thanks for all you do!
Thanks for a superb skin . . . I really like your work and I use more of your skins than anyone else. Thanks for all you do!
werewolf
Reply #7 Friday, July 4, 2003 4:53 PM
Reply #7 Friday, July 4, 2003 4:53 PM
I agree completely with mormegil. This skin cries out for a whole package, icons, cursors, ports for various apps. This skin is so professionally done, nothing less than one would expect from Essorant!
MPD
Reply #8 Sunday, July 6, 2003 1:24 AM
Reply #8 Sunday, July 6, 2003 1:24 AM
Question: This download is described as a "visual style." It is an executable (.exe) file. Is it a visual style (as in Microsoft's XP visual style), or a Windows Blinds file? If the latter, how does this executable file differ from the Window Blinds standard web-page file posting?
Larry Kuperman
Reply #9 Sunday, July 6, 2003 1:03 PM
Reply #9 Sunday, July 6, 2003 1:03 PM
The executible is for people that do not have WindowBlinds and will install the Rise of Nations style. For people that have WindowBlinds, just go to the WindowBlinds section.
Cross1492
Reply #10 Sunday, July 6, 2003 9:48 PM
Reply #10 Sunday, July 6, 2003 9:48 PM
Great skin as always, essorant!
I did make a cursor to compliment it called Spear. Hope you don't mind...
Check it out! https://www.wincustomize.com/download.asp?SkinID=549&LibID=25
I did make a cursor to compliment it called Spear. Hope you don't mind...
Check it out! https://www.wincustomize.com/download.asp?SkinID=549&LibID=25
Ullrich
Reply #11 Tuesday, July 8, 2003 7:07 AM
Reply #11 Tuesday, July 8, 2003 7:07 AM
i agree with Mormegil. Will you Mormegil create some cool icons or suites, i really love toon Xp premium suite its the best suite ever created. hope to see more of your work mormegil
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Reply #1 Thursday, July 3, 2003 4:49 PM
Thanks for sharing it, guys