WinPenguins

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.