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ScreenSaver XP
A 3D Unreal Engine tribute to the Windows XP Bliss hill, day to night.
Daytime: the green 3D hill under a bright, cloudy sky, with the “ScreenSaverXP by MikeTheTech” watermark.
Overview
ScreenSaver XP was a 3D tribute to the Windows XP "Bliss" wallpaper, built in Unreal Engine. Instead of a flat photo, it recreated the rolling green hill and sky as a fully 3D scene and ran it as a screensaver with a full 24-hour day/night cycle, from bright daylight through sunset to a starry night.
The original 2021 build let you switch to a one-hour cycle with 1 or a five-minute cycle with 5. Version 0.1, posted in July 2022, offered four speeds instead: 1 for one hour, 2 for 30 minutes, 3 for 15 minutes and 4 for one minute, with Tab to hide the on-screen help. Esc closed it in both.
Mike released it for Windows on itch.io in May 2021. In 2021 it was listed at a $1.99 minimum; by July 2022 the page offered version 0.1 alongside the original build and had become name-your-own-price.
Highlights
- Fully 3D Unreal Engine recreation of the Windows XP 'Bliss' hill and sky
- Full 24-hour day/night cycle
- Original 2021 build: keys 1 and 5 set a 1-hour or 5-minute cycle
- Version 0.1: keys 1-4 set a 1-hour, 30-, 15- or 1-minute cycle
- Version 0.1 added Tab to hide the help overlay; Esc closed the screensaver
Details
- Platforms
- Windows
- Version
- v0.1
- Built with
- Unreal Engine
- Status
- Retired
- Timeline
- May 2021
Questions
How did you change the speed of the day/night cycle?
In version 0.1, keys 1-4 set a 1-hour, 30-minute, 15-minute or 1-minute cycle, Tab hid the help overlay and Esc closed the screensaver. The original 2021 build offered 1-hour and 5-minute cycles on keys 1 and 5.
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