Anyone with a Stardock forum account can create a blog on JoeUser.com which in turn supports external blogging APIs. I'm using that right now to write this blog via Word 2013 on my Surface RT. Here's the Metaweblog API URL: https://www.joeuser.com/api/MetaWeblog.axd
To say the response to ModernMix has been overwhelming would be an understatement. In the 20 years that Stardock has existed, we’ve never put something out that has has been this positively received, this fast. To recap: Last week we put out the first beta of ModernMix, a program that lets users run Windows 8 ModernUI (Metro) apps in a window, on the desktop. It’s a free download that you can also buy for $5 (which gets you the full beta and final version). The reaction has...
If you're running Windows 8, even if you absolutely love the new Start screen and ModernUI apps I think you'll still want to check out Start8 / ModernMix . Start8, as many of you know, has become very popular because it brings back the Start menu to the Windows 8 desktop and lets you book directly to it. Now, ModernMix solves the other biggest criticism with Windows 8, namely that the new WinRT apps (called ModernUI apps or Metro apps) are forced to run full-screen. Mo...
Hi everyone! Here is a lengthy play through of Legendary Heroes. Note that this is pre-beta and there will be a lot of improvements, especially visually, between now and release.
Stardock released the first BETA of ModernMix today. In a nutshell: Modern apps (often called Metro or RT apps) on Windows 8 are forced to run full-screen no matter what. If you have a 20 inch monitor (or larger) you know how absurd it is for many of these apps to be running full-screen. If you want to grab it right now you can at www.stardock.com/products/modernmix Once ModernMix is installed, all those Metro apps can run windows on the desktop. They even show up on the...
On Wednesday, March 6 around 1pm EST we will be announcing something we think Windows 8 users will be very excited out…
Greetings! Memory is remembered Last week we discussed that we really wanted Legendary Heroes to support 32-bit for the new "Huge" size maps but the current FE/LH builds couldn't do it. So I agreed to spend the weekend going through the code to see what I could optimize. I'm pleased to say that enough optimization was done that LH users will be able to play on the new huge maps. But if you play it on a 32-bit machine, it'll pop up a warning since it's going to be...
For those of you who program, what do you like to listen to (if you listen to music)? I have found my go-to soundtrack to be the original Star Trek, the Motion Picture soundtrack. I don’t like vocals when programming because I’m easily distracted when I’m focusing. So what are your favorites?
Last month a lot of time was spent on Fallen Enchantress v1.3. We also used that time to do a lot of play-testing of Legendary Heroes. The more we play, the more we think players are going to like it. Memory We are going to delay the beta one more week. We were planning on having it come out next Thursday. But after talking to the marketing team, it was decided that the question of 32-bit support needed to be answered by the time pre-orders start. That is,...
This week DeskScapes 8 was released and while it is most famous for its ability to display animated wallpapers, I personally think of the animated wallpapers as an additional perk on top of the fact that it’s a really awesome way to manage and enhance normal Windows desktop backgrounds. Its home page is https://www.stardock.com/products/deskscapes . Multi-monitor support If you look at DeskScapes 8’s main UI, you’ll notice a few things instantly. First, if yo...
About 1 week left before the first beta of Legendary Heroes.
In our own vaporware category we have Society. You may recall this game that has been in various stages of development for ages. Here’s a sneak peek GameSpy gave to it from 2005 . It had a number of radical (at the time) ideas such as being “free to play” with a “persistent world”. So what happened? Basically we’ve been having to wait until the hardware gets to the point where we can do it. We developed our Kumquat engine for this (which is...
Sorry for the bit of self-promotion but I recently set up a new blog site that takes all my posts written as Frogboy (my day job account) and Draginol (my personal account) and puts them together. The site is www.littletinyfrogs.com . Tags: Stardock CEO Brad Wardell’s blog site
We’re working on Fallen Enchantress 1.3 which has a lot of nice balancing updates that we think you’ll like. We also improved performance, fixed a save game corruption crash and just generally integrated some great ideas from the forums. Since the screenshots we have up are…well…you know…horrible…here are some from a pre-release of 1.3: One of the new features is a pretty big change that you’ll notice almost immediately. Procedural tile yield generation. Basically, it me...
If you haven’t heard of the Dog Shame group on Facebook, it’s hilarious. I contributed Bailey to it today when I came back from a meeting with Derek I found her in my office with the remnants of my candy bar (and yes, it was chocolate).