CodeCracker

This game creates a gradient in the title bar, from black to whatever it is otherwise set to. Naturally this looks best with not too light colors. On desktops with 256 or 64k or more colors, it will have the pattern on the left half of the window that you see in the screenshot. It seems that the game does not recognize 32k desktops as such, but interprets them as 16-color.

From the defunct website:

CodeCracker is my first game for Windows based on the MasterMind board game. I developed this game to learn a particular programming languge at the time and it has progressed into what I have today. I had come accross a neat little tool that allowed me to easily create a 'unique' window for the game—the result came out much better than I expected.

Steckbrief

• Concept: Mastermind
• Author: Jason Ridge
• Year: 1997
• Country of Origin:

Download

• CodeCracker (192kB, ZIP)