Penguins wander around your desktop and engage in activities such as reading and skateboarding!
Usage:
- Position the cursor or a window over a penguin to explode it.
- Position the cursor over balloons to pop them and cause the penguin to tumble!
- Use the arrow keys or WASD keys to change the direction of Skateboarder Penguins.
- WinPenguins creates a penguin icon in the Taskbar Notification Area (located at the right end of the Windows Taskbar).
- Left click to access Settings.
- To shutdown WinPenguins, right click to open the menu and click Exit.
- To take a screenshot, right click to open the menu and click Screenshot...
New features in WinPenguins Version 1.0:
- WinPenguins now works on Windows 10 and Windows 11!
- Added new Large penguins (Bitmaps from Xpenguins). Toggle between Small and Large penguins in Settings.
- Added new Super Penguin (Bitmap from Xpenguins).
- Penguins can now walk upside down and skateboard upside down! (New sprites)
- Penguins can now climb down and skateboard down. (New sprites)
- Created new bitmap sprites for Large Santa Walker penguin and Large Santa Climber penguin.
- Added new Exit animation for Walker penguins (Bitmap from Xpenguins).
- Created new bitmap masks for Skateboarder, Skateboarder Climber, Splat, and Exit sprites so they now work with Alpha blending.
- Penguins now fall in through the top of the screen rather than materializing out of thin air!
- Tumbling penguins can now transform into Skateboarder penguins on impact.
- Balloons are now only popped for Ballooner penguins when mouse is over balloons area of sprite.
- Smoother transitions between different penguin types.
- Added DPI scaling support.
- Fixed a bug where sometimes the splat animation could be offset to the left or right instead of being central.
- Fixed a bug where splat penguins would transform back to life on app shutdown.
- Fixed a bug where penguins would sometimes splat when transitioning from a Climber to a Walker.
- Fixed a bug where Tumbling penguins would only turn left on landing.
- Fixed a bug where Reading penguins would read in mid-air in situations where there was no longer a window to sit on.
- Fixed a bug where penguins could transform into Santa penguins even with Santa penguins disabled.
- Fixed a bug where Climber and Skateboard Climber penguins would always tumble when hitting a top right corner.
- Fixed a bug where a falling penguin would tumble instead of climbing when hitting side of window.
- Fixed a bug where the app would sometimes not shutdown if a penguin was in the exploding state.
- Fixed a bug with balloons not popping on mouse over.
- Fixed a bug where screenshot would not be saved if the BMP bitmap file format was chosen.
- Fixed an issue with sound clipping when multiple sounds are played at once.
- Instead of drawing on the desktop window, penguins are now drawn on a new transparent overlay window.
- Improved performance.
- Fixed lots of resource and memory leaks.
