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Pipewalker THEME COLLECTION 1.0

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This archive contains 28 extra themes for Pipewalker. This is a a puzzle/game "in which you need to combine the components into a single circuit: connect all computers to a network server, bring water to the taps, etc". Pipewalker was created and is developed maintained by Artem. You can find the project page at [link] The preview above shows a sample of the tiles of each theme, and also the default theme for Pipewalker, Network (included for comparison).

Most of these themes were created over the course of two months, after version 0.9.3 was released. This version changed the layout and format of the theme file, to a 512x448 px PNG file. This had several advantages for me over the previous version, which used TGA format.
  • Exporting/editing PNG was supported by many graphics editors;
  • PNG format was in general a smaller size than TGA;
  • The format supported full transparency, so that tiles could be layered; and
  • I had plenty of expertise in using Adobe Fireworks, which uses PNG as a native format.

I thoroughly enjoy playing PipeWalker and find it a contemplative endeavour. Having the easy ability to create and develop new themes was something I couldn't ignore and appealed to me greatly. The first two themes I made were RAILWAYS and ROADS, which were adaptations of tile-sets for another game/puzzle called LINKZ (see [link]) by Martijn van der Lee. I have always enjoyed playing Linkz as well and the opportunity to adapt some of the tilesets was too good to resist. My third theme was GARDEN. My inspiration for this was a comment I'd seen on the Pipewalker asking for a garden theme. I adapted the PLUMBING theme to something a little more colourful and with a higher contrast. The remainder of these extra themes came after the release of 0.9.3 and I created an average of four a week!

To add a new theme - unpack the archive file and copy the PNG files to the application data directory:
  • MS Windows: [Install folder]\data (usually C:\Program Files\PipeWalker\data)
  • Linux/Unix: usually /usr/local/share/pipewalker


All these themes also appear separately in my Pipewalker Skins Gallery.
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