ᵘⁿᶠⁱⁿⁱˢʰᵉᵈ3DO's ARMY MEN⁽¹⁹⁹⁸⁾ᵘⁿᶠⁱⁿⁱˢʰᵉᵈ3DO's ARMY MEN⁽¹⁹⁹⁸⁾ Cursors

  • Published on January 31st 2025 under the Custom (contact author) license.
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As per THTH's request.

The game's cursors are kinda bland,
I'm kinda surprised he'd ask for 'em,
given his fine tastes...
still, game cursors are cursors & game assets,
a request is a request, & media preservation
is a noble, whileworthy endeavour.~

I spent wayy too much time at night
making too many, as-bland, custom supplements,
time I could've spent figuring out
how to implement the pompous Commandœs BEL ones
(as per previous request always by him)...

but again, I took a break from
all the technicalities entailed,
& delivered something easier
(arguably better than nothing).

All of these were a rather pleasant breeze
after a tedious, heavily caffeine-driven work day.

Dev crediting :
Designer (?) - K.Bullen
Art Direction - K.Bullen & W.Ianneo
Artwork -
N.Myerhoff, S.Ruggels, M.Parisi,
A.Muolic, B.Lopez, J.Maynard
Design -
B.Wilcox, D.Fruin, B.Lopez,
R.Zalot, J.Bates, T.Hawkins

Special thanks -
G.Richardson, B.Martin, M.Vaverka,
Bj.Cholewinski, K.Erden, J.Fennel,
L. Ozer , D. Bunch

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Release serie 1 bis
What's new with bis :

-Wait off of (gray) Sarge's radio
-WiB off of the earlier & the in-game arrow ;
-Trio of counter WiBs based on
the menu arrow & the numerals seen
in the Multiplayer map-selection screen;
-Trio of the earlier without the arrow, for Wait;
-Sound options' "ON" button reversed into "NO"
(for unavailable, no-drop, etc), coloured as-is;
-Yet another unavailable, the in-game arrow
overlayed by the uninstall icon's circle-backslash;
-Six shoddy, black diagonals, edits of
the Cursor3.cur extracted from the .exe ;
-MP map-selection arrows, all-white recolor.

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Back in release 1 -
-Menu & in-game arrows ;
-Cursor3(blob w/ 4 arrows) extracted from
the .exe via ResourceHacker ;
-The red crosshair cursor ;
-Squad commands atk(m16 rifle)&def(D shield) cursors ;
-Airstrike(bomb)&paratroop(parachute) cursors ;
-The two txt-input markers, from
the MP map selection & in-game chat ;
-Horizontal&vertical arrows,
from MP map screen & sound options(excl.yellow),
& alterations thereof ;
-Alteration of the SquadCmdDef cursor
with an ( i ) for info ;
-"NO" unavailable cursors, based off
the sound options' "ON" button, in the styles
of the other cursors ;
-Trio of unavailable made w/
the circle-backlash from uninstall.ico,
w/ all-white & b&w variants ;

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Missing :
-More proper diagonals? (wip) ;
-MP setup unit cursors,
w/ its 4-color variants;
-Something else probably, I forget -_- ;


Tags: Simple Windows XP ■ Black □ White Game ■ Red

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Hey, where's my downvœt? *le angery fæç*

...and alas, I couldn't choose
just one set of arrows per-role,
because :
1-As a fussy concerned with dev fidelity,
I had little to work with, no consistence,
& many plausible conjectures ;
2-I have limited decisional autonomy,
& struggle making choices ;
3-You can choose yourself the ones
you find the most proper. ~ ;}

Vote me down, Scotty!

user iconTHTH on January 31st 2025 0

5 out of 5 stars.

Hello collector, you're right, they are a bit lonely, I'll leave you a gift in the direct message!!

Fun little fact :
the game uses obscure stock music!

A portion of the Bayou missions'
music track (imeo, the best heard in-game)
is also heard at some point towards the end
of the animated Disney film
"The great mouse detective".

Take a listen :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFAQHdAE5nk

I take everything back :
Army Men (1998) stuff is fun.

Update to serie 1 bis is inbound...
but I need sleep xP

user iconRIDDLER on February 1st 2025 0

5 out of 5 stars.

Very nice set but some hotspots for the shields should be in the middle.

Nope Riddler,
the devs put 'em funny like that
(I checked 😉 ).

To be fair, they also ought've made
the various other cursors either
red, white with black borders,
or black with white borders.

Nope, airstrike&paratroop are all-white,
& squad cmd atk is in 2 shades of gray... xÞ
Maybe the devs had better things to do
than focusing on those...

like, you know, making a cursor for each unit
in the Multiplayer setup, each briefly seen
only as it hovers on the bottom bar LøL xD.

user iconAnonymous on February 21st 2025 0

...mayhap I ought have a few sessions
with IrfanView, so that I may
rip those unit placement cursors
in one fell swoop...

...and a hot-spot
on the verti arrows
is OFF, darnit!