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Hereāre some examples from games that simulate OSs that Iāve been making a list of (left out the not pixely ones and super-not interesting ones). Most of them are a bit bland.
Project Perfect Citizen
Digital: A Love Story
Front Mission always felt like this to me, even though I guess theyāre just pretty regular RPG text boxes.
You donāt know how tempted I am to make GTK versions of everything from this thread.
Heck yeah Front Mission.
Canāt believe I forgot about it! Iāve always loved it
And if Iād have the time, Iād be tempted to customize a desktop to use them. A lot of Openbox themes have this look because itās easy to define pixel bevels + plain colors in the theme files. Too bad true pixel fonts arenāt very practical in high-res monitorsā¦
The chip programming UI in Carnage Heart also has this look of āobscure app that can do cool stuffā, mouse cursor and all
The PSX games look cool
While the PSP game unfortunately goes for the bright buttons glossy look. Yuck!
Oh yeah, thatād kinda ruin it : (
Mid to late 90s Linux desktops were the best. The Enlightenment window manager pretty much sold me on Linux at the time:
This was the first version of enlightenment I used:
Later versions got even more baroque (and more than a little gaudy):
I like looking at Enlightenment, but I hate using it.
One of the weirdest experiments in Unix-landās interface design, that have been sadly abandoned are the docklets/dockapps. Square, dockable monitors/helpers that you could stack on a side of the screen. Iāve had a bunch at some point running on my laptop. Mostly useless, but it makes the desktop look futuristic and cool!
someone on tumblr is making a really nice-looking rpg in the style of old windows, but i canāt remember who they are or the name of their game
i love those things and also enlightenment. haiku has similar dockable apps in its replicants (passed down from beos 5) and a similar menu system to enlightenment except that youāre literally looking at your filesystem (so clean). the major thing i wanted enlightenment to have was dynamic tiling, but it didnāt as of three years ago when i last tried it. haikuās got that (original to haiku, but its implementation is such that iām wondering how beos ever did without it) and it is Lovely. still waiting on apps, though!
this is so beautiful.
hell yes, old soundtests. donāt know why i didnāt think of this vectorā¦ lots more material to be dug up there.
wow
black dawn
hired guns
perihelion