Microsoft and Stardock Release Rise of Nations Visual Style

Published on July 3, 2003 By koop In 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

Comments

treetog

on Jul 03, 2003

Tim, very elegant skin, as usual on your work. The details are flawless.

Thanks for sharing it, guys GO! GO!

retiredmaster

on Jul 03, 2003

Thank you treetog

sig101

on Jul 03, 2003

Wow, how very, very cool.

Congrats to you essorant and thanks to all for making it publicly available.

mormegil

on Jul 03, 2003

Beautiful! Great work! for a great game to. to thumbs up!

mormegil

on Jul 03, 2003

I think some nice Icons is the only thing missing

Brock Beesley

on Jul 04, 2003

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!

werewolf

on Jul 04, 2003

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

on Jul 06, 2003

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

on Jul 06, 2003

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

on Jul 06, 2003

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

Ullrich

on Jul 08, 2003

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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