Microsoft and Stardock Release Rise of Nations Visual Style

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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
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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Tim, very elegant skin, as usual on your work. The details are flawless.

Thanks for sharing it, guys GO! GO!
Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Thank you treetog
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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Wow, how very, very cool. Congrats to you essorant and thanks to all for making it publicly available.
Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Beautiful! Great work! for a great game to. to thumbs up!
Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I think some nice Icons is the only thing missing
Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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!
Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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!
Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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?
Reply #9 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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.
Reply #10 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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
Reply #11 from WinCustomize Forums Top
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