Contest to win a GOG copy of Iron Harvest

[Ross Scott]

 

WHAT IS THIS:

GOG gave me 10 copies of Iron Harvest to give away to people, so I'll be giving them out here on September 12th.

 

HOW TO ENTER:

This has nothing to do with GOG or the game, but tying back to my GUI video, an online archive of Winamp skins was recently made public that shows an incredible variety with over 65k skins. 

 

1. Go here:  https://skins.webamp.org/

2. Browse through the collection and pick out the skin you like the most.  This should be something you would skin your whole OS with this theme if you could.

3. Right click on the image, click "copy image address" and post in this thread.  If you could also list the name of the skin (it's shown at the bottom when you click on it on the site), that would be appreciated, but not mandatory.

 

That's it!  I'll pick the top 10 I think are the best sometime on Saturday, September 12th.  I'll announce the winners here and private message them the keys for the game.

 

ADDITIONAL TIPS:

-Many of the skins just have a big picture of a celebrity or a scene from a movie, don't pick these, these will NOT win.  I want to see stuff that looks like it's its own coherent look for a GUI.

 

-I'll probably be biased towards stuff that looks slick and would make a great theme for an OS in general.  If it's really cool looking, those might win also.

 

-Only one entry per person.  If you want to show off more you found, try to use the "spoiler" tag in the post (the eye icon) for those.  If you post more than one, I'm automatically going to assume the first skin listed is your entry and not count the others.

 

-Only one winner per skin.  If multiple people pick the same skin, I'll select one of them at random, so you have better odds if you pick a skin nobody else has already.

Edited September 7, 2020 by Ross Scott (see edit history)

[Swamp]

I would totally skin my whole OS with this theme:

"Pixel.wsz"

[Vertigo]

 

AsheN_WooDShine.wsz

 

 

[Tim]

[Sebastian]

insurrection_by_jocpoc.wsz

Edited September 7, 2020 by Sebastian (see edit history)

[Forgot_My_Account]

This one is pretty nice - Devia_-_Tribute_to_DeviantART:

Although, and it might seem drab, I just use the Winamp Modern skin in mini mode. It has a ton of color schemes to choose from and I just use it as a small task bar above my main one:

 

EDIT: In the unlikely case my drab taste actually appeals to someone and I've won, I'll be unfortunately without internet access until next weekend due to circumstances that are out of my control.

Edited September 7, 2020 by Forgot_My_Account (see edit history)

[Fenric]

I'm not sure what time travel looks like but I'm certainly feeling it. Missed these old things.

 

The_Book_of_W_namp.wsz

 

Slept on it and figured what I'd call a book-themed GUI: The Technonomicon.

Edited September 8, 2020 by Fenric (see edit history)

[metal]

This just makes me imagine my entire PC and monitor is made of flash fleshy living metalic organism. Which appeals to me for some reason. Is that weird?

 

[HypnoB]

clarity.wsz

[MrSerota]

  DadaAmp_1.wsz

[sfort]

After a good 40min the site just stopped loading themes.

I'd never use a single theme across every aplication so can't really honestly participate anyhow.

(and there is no skining the system, linux has no default UI)

for specificly this UI tho

 

 

Edited September 8, 2020 by sfort (see edit history)

[kachiat]

This one. I like darker tones and basically buttons would work on contrast between dark background and bright yellow.

Edited September 8, 2020 by kachiat (see edit history)

[Riobux]

 

I used to use base-2.91.wsz back in the day. Simple, clear and easy.

Edited September 8, 2020 by Riobux (see edit history)

[MeatKid]

I know this won't win, but I already signed up for the forums so I'm just gonna be honest. I love this grotesquely bright colored Surge skin. It fills me with a warm nostalgia for nu-metal and thinking wearing black sweatbands made me look cool. I would never use a skin like this so that basically kicks me out of the running. However, it's still a charming throwback to something so 90s, just like WinAmp.

 [SURGE_amp.wsz]

Edited September 8, 2020 by MeatKid (see edit history)

[Schneider]

I think familycomputer.wsz is really nice. It's got an old-school 3D look to it, but also a more modern style with clear edges and a limited color palette.

Edited September 8, 2020 by Schneider
Add the name of the skin. (see edit history)

[Scuttlerebuttal]

 

Nico.wsz

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[KingLich]

I LOOVE The Neverhood. Sooo...

the_Neverhood_amp.wsz

 

[Xenaga]

This looks cool

 

trigun_by_luigihann_by_winampskinners.wsz

[allexandeur]

Maybe I spent too much time with Nintendo as a kid, but I think i could stare at this interface for years and not get sick of it!
P.S. Ross, you're the best!!!

 

"Wintendo.wsz"

 

These look good too:

Spoiler

resubmitted.Purple_Glow.wsz

Can't go wrong with neon!

 

It's a bit flat for a good UI, but I find this orange-black strangely appealing. A couple peoeple posted similar below, but I like this one better.

 

I really like the idea of blackboards, though this is again obviously too flat.

 

 

 

Some more of the ones that look promising:

Spoiler

Yaxay.wsz:

TRiNiTY.wsz:

TRiO_CS1570__RSTD_.wsz:

 

 

Edited September 11, 2020 by allexandeur (see edit history)

[iron]

 

"30.wsz" has a very mechanical grim dark / 40k feel to the buttons.

Should allow for design creativity, in areas where without buttons.