GUI Olympics 2004 - It's Official!

Published on January 26, 2004 By Hus In WinCustomize Talk

An excerpt from the January WinCustomize newsletter:

In March WinCustomize plans to help sponsor the GUI Olympics 2004. Two years ago the GUI Olympics was an inter-website skinning contest. The subject-matter was WindowBlinds 3. A lot has happened since then and skinning has grown even more popular.
You can see the skins (visual styles) from the last GUI Olympics here. Some of the best, most original skins of all time were made during that period. The GUI Olympics already has 2 big sponsors lined up and is hoping to get even more. Even at this early stage we've got $10,000 in cash and prizes committed to it. The categories will be WindowBlinds, Icon packages, and one of the popular media players. The categories will range from most creative, most practical, minimalist, power user, and so forth. Stay tuned for more news, hopefully by the next WinCustomize Magazine we'll have more details.

This is just GREAT! I can't wait to see it start! What a competition it's gonna be! The very best of luck to all the skinners!

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Comments (Page 1)

Sugaree

on Jan 26, 2004

Oh, Goodie!

elvee

on Jan 26, 2004

hmmm...never thought they would do it again

I remember viewing the last one and ...well...let's just hope this one ends on a positive note

IPlural

on Jan 26, 2004

cool

thanky for the fyi Sir Hus

joetheblow

on Jan 26, 2004

2006 is when it really should be.

WOM

on Jan 26, 2004

Damn.

mormegil

on Jan 26, 2004

I wont be able to enter, since I work at stardock now.

But I am looking forward to see the great skins.

elvee

on Jan 26, 2004

Hippy had some cool submissions, last time

Frogboy

on Jan 26, 2004

It will be run quite differently this time around. The community has changed radically in the last couple of years. There's been a lot of consolidation.

Chickie

on Jan 27, 2004

Oh joy! I can't wait to see the new skins. Good luck to the skinners. May the best man or woman to win.

wulfn1

on Jan 27, 2004

wahoo!! looking forward to cheering on our skinners!!! love the stuff that comes out of the gui olympics, everyone takes it one step above normal and create masterpieces!

Aqua.

on Jan 27, 2004

I hope there is a "best overall" category.

Last time there were many excellent skins targeted at a specific category, but very few I would actually ever use.

Styl-X Design

on Jan 28, 2004

March... I think I will just have to finish any running jobs and start working on a killer theme

bakerstreet

on Jan 28, 2004

What kind of time limit are we talking about on the skins? Would that mean they are due in March? Strictly speaking, a solo skinner would have to start now to do anything substantial on WMP or Winamp, or really even Windowblinds. I hope the time limit reflects the complexity of apps now.

Wish desktop X was one of the items, but I guess it would be difficult considering the use of other people's objects and such.

bakerstreet

on Jan 28, 2004

What I am asking is if the contest is set for March, will the skins be *due* in March, or will that be when the particulars are announced. For a really good skin, it could take a solo skinner a month or more to complete one.

As for DesktopX, I don't think you could fairly grade it when people can use other people's objects. Most of the standard functionality people look for are things like the weather object, etc., and those normally are shared around the community.

PurrBall

on Jan 29, 2004

I hope boots will be in it. My average is a 7

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