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ITT games that use native OS controls

>> No.10841323
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>> No.10841336

>>10841317
Whenever I see this game I can only think of that Joel stream where he changed the wav files of this game.

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>> No.10841638
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BookStory, one of the first Kairosoft games

>> No.10841640
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Lunatic Dawn

>> No.10841650
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>>10841317
I liked Deadlock.

>> No.10841652

>>10841317
You mean the UI?
Any game that uses left click to select and right click to interact is using Windows controls.

>> No.10841654
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>> No.10841659
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Never played it but looks comfy

>> No.10841660

>>10841652
Control is what Windows calls UI components, also known as widgets in some systems

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/individual-control-info

>> No.10841669

>>10841640
>>10841654

This format fits RPGs so well. Love the "command center" feel of it. Much nicer than having to dig through endless menu screens

>> No.10841679

>>10841336
>e-celeb cancer

>> No.10841683
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>> No.10841698
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Progress Quest - the goat

>> No.10841836

>>10841347
Woah this is so cool. I love how the graphics move from window to window.

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>> No.10841859

Loads of Mac games from the 68k and PPC eras used the native Macintosh UI elements for menus not just launchers but also stuff like settings or even starting a new game, often if you opened the menu it'd overlay on top of the game itself
This is especially annoying if you're a Mac noob since the only way to open those menus in a fullscreen application is a keyboard shortcut. Many games even hide their Quit button in these menus for some reason. What did classic Mac devs have against integrating proper fullscreen menus directly into their applications?

>> No.10841861

>>10841683
I was really really young when I played Creatures and I remember getting really upset that one of them died. That's all I remember about that game. I've always wanted to play it again but just never did. Now I've got a win9x install on dosbox-x. I might try it again.

>> No.10841897

>>10841679
newfag

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>> No.10842169

>>10841347
what would happen if you moved one of the windows during a missile launch?

>> No.10842405

>>10842169
It would hit my computer and your hard drive would explode.

>> No.10842417

>>10841654
holy kino

>> No.10842445

>>10841897
He's right.

>> No.10842518
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Castle of the Winds

I remember playing the first episode of this as a shareware demo, and how the game let you set any windows Icon as your avatar. I had set an icon from a game that had come with one of the many games pre-packaged with my computer because it was hilarious to me back then to play as what looked like a mouse splattered against the screen.

>> No.10843039

>>10841317
i always remember seeing this on the pirate ftps but i was afraid to download it because it might be a virus

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>> No.10843141

>>10842518
Great game. Cousin left it at my grandma's and she let us borrow it (the floppy). I remember watching my brother with my sister play this game. The entrance to the dungeon filtered us for a minute. We couldn't figure out how to move diagonally because we were using the keyboard. Had to call grandma, who called our cousin, to tell us that we needed to click and drag, lol. Good times. The second one is awesome. This series has all the goodies. Great gear, great lore, awesome graphics. Love it.

>> No.10843158

>>10843141
>We couldn't figure out how to move diagonally because we were using the keyboard.
wait you didn't use the numpad?

>> No.10843172

>>10841331
What game? Looks kino.

>> No.10843349

>>10843172
It literally says it on the window.

>> No.10843353

>>10841836
Dunno if you're being facetious or not but that was pretty bombass to my ten year old mind.

>> No.10843360

>>10841652
You know what he means, faggot.

>> No.10843405

>>10843091
Love this game.

>> No.10843652

>>10843353
Haven't seen something like that before.

>> No.10843657

>>10843172
Shareware Version.

>> No.10843686

>>10841698
More like Autism Progression Quest.

>> No.10843767

>>10843349
The fuck is Soltra?

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Atari ST port of Ultima 2 somehow felt ultra comfy having native OS controls. You could simulate your own "night" mode by adjusting the colors too.

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>>10841698
>Curse Name
>Animate Tunic
>Tumor (Malignant)

>> No.10843790
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Atari ST port of Ultima 2 somehow felt ultra comfy having native OS controls. You could simulate your own "night" mode by adjusting the colors too.

>> No.10843882

>>10843141
>using arrow keys instead of numpad

you kids were and are still retarded

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>> No.10843927

>>10843141
Back in my days we use the Phase Door spell.

>> No.10844750

>>10841659
the game got a "proper" version a while back

>> No.10844796

>>10841317
I Played the Indiana Jones game with this UI, desktop adventures or something

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Mordor: The Depths of Dejenol

>> No.10846514

Is it possible to create something like this nowadays?

>> No.10846518

>>10846514
Yes but it might look weird on 4k screens, unless you use like SVGs for all graphics and then scale it all up

>> No.10846539

>>10846490
>Aero

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>> No.10846617

>>10846518
I don't see how that would be an issue when you just don't apply any antialiasing on the graphics.

>> No.10846638

>>10846609
>Trans getting more taxpayers money than the police

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>> No.10846767

>>10846693
what game?

>> No.10846773

>>10846691
fuck yeah

>> No.10846776

>>10846767
Honestly have no idea, just had that image

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>> No.10846821

>>10846767
Vantage Master

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>>10846514
Lots of modern open source games are like this, especially when they are part of GNOME and KDE projects and use their libraries

>> No.10846914

>>10843790
What emulator is this?

>> No.10846939

No love for SimTower/yootlikes?
https://youtu.be/jvs-bhnAW7k?feature=shared

>> No.10846969

>>10842405
Sounds like a real virus someone would have made around the time.

>> No.10846974

>>10846693
>Falcom still has its own little website to download the game free
Man, what a cool company

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>>10841317

>> No.10847135

>>10841669
It supports drag and drop for inventory management too. As weird as it looks it is a very interesting port.

>> No.10847141

>>10841659
Java controls aren't native

>> No.10847153
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>>10847141
They're native-like

>> No.10847258

There are 10 times as many of these space conquest simulators than I'd realized existed at the time.
>>10841640
>Sex 0%
I feel that
>>10847043
Prophetic

>> No.10847431

>>10843141
I don't even know how I found which letter key it was to move diagonally but I did, it was something like U or I iirc, it's been a while

>> No.10847741

>>10841317
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqJRvcqhJd8

>> No.10847870

>>10841336
>thinks of streamer
Sui.

>> No.10847884

>>10846514
Yes, it wouldn't even be that hard.

>> No.10848014

>>10846514
Easily. It's just a matter of utilizing old GUI libraries in your application.

>> No.10848034

>>10846514
if you're talking about creating old OS-like controls, like the other anons said it should be easier now with more tools than ever. but if you're talking about nowadays OS-looking games, the thing is modern OS visuals are becoming flatter and less distinct. like this window for example >>10846847
, just a bunch of text and icons.

>> No.10848118

My life's mission is to make an rpg in visual basic 6.0 that only runs on windows 95/98 before I die

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>>10841317

>> No.10848407

>>10848118
So whats stopping you?

>> No.10848418

>>10848407
I have terminal cancer and only got about a year left.

>> No.10848434

>>10848418
time to hurry up then

>> No.10848572

>>10846914
Steem SSE
(not to be confused with Steam)

>> No.10848684

>>10841683
i love how the base players of creatures are majority female. even in modern times. women just love fucking with genetics.

>> No.10848734

>>10848418
Show us proof and maybe I'll help you

>> No.10849017

>>10841932
Was that a licensed Star Trek game?

>> No.10849025

>>10847043
>Sirs finally redeemed

>> No.10849145

>>10841336
When I think of this game I think of the time I played it on my Pentium II in the 90s. What's it like letting other people live your life while you watch it on youtube?

>> No.10849332

>>10847870
>>10849145
newfags annoy me

>> No.10849474

>>10849332
I'm sure the video you watched when you were 12 was important to you.

>> No.10849489

>>10849474
If you're gonna newfag can you stop being so obvious about it? Nothing worse than an ignorant idiot who is confident in his ignorance.

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>> No.10849648

>>10846514
VBA in Microsoft Office programs like Excel is one of the easiest ways to create a basic game if you don't have much experience with programming. You can probably create something like >>10841323 in VBA using the Form Designer. But with more advanced graphics like in the OP picture it's probably best to use something else. Excel workbooks and stuff aren't the nicest way to distribute programs though so I wouldn't make anything big using VBA

Winforms is somewhat easy too, if you know a bit of C#, or any Visual Studio language. Winforms is a bit of a dated technology now but it looks a lot like a lot of the pictures in this thread. Most of the games in this thread kind of look like they're using regular Winforms style default OS controls, then some of the games might also be using a canvas for drawing more intricate graphics, like the picture in the OP
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.windows.controls.canvas?view=windowsdesktop-8.0

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>>10846514
Sort of. It wouldn't have the same feel to it because the OS would render it differently now, picrel is what a basic windows desktop app from windows forums (windows gui library released in 2002) would look like today
I assume it'd be easier to use a more advanced tech and style it to look older. Like here's some demos of windows-98 like UI in a modern webbrowser
https://os-gui.js.org/demo/test.html

>> No.10849747

>>10848572
Thanks anon

>> No.10850018

>>10849618
Love how it has a mini desktop environment within the game.

>> No.10850620

>>10841654
What game is this?
NEED

>> No.10850630

>>10846638
Cars are more profitable than cops

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>>10847043
GAAAAAAAAAANDHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

>> No.10851559

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eHJXKze8fI

>> No.10852095

>>10848014
They don't even have to be that old. You can just use regular win32 or qt libraries

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>>10848034
If you know what you're doing you can make native controls look however you like and rid yourself of that flat cancer. In windows there are a few programs that can change how they look. In GNU/Linux, it's as easy as changing the configuration

>> No.10852153

>>10850620
it's in the filename you idiot