It's a nice old game, you can download it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20180825054510/http://solgryn.org/Stuff/SketchStacker/SketchStacker.zip
The game works either in window or fullscreen in 640x480. In the main game you build a tower of geometric objects until it falls. There are also Extras (additional games). They are not accessible at the beginning, but it is not too difficult to unlock them.
The game has some peculiarities:
-It is probably on the same engine as Santaman II, it unpacks its files to Temp and uses another exe with the command
stdrt.exe /SF "GamePath\Sketchstacker.exe" /SO94208
-I copied all the files from Temp to the game folder and tried to hook stdrt.exe directly like I did in Santaman II. But in this case I couldn't scale the game in any way.
-This is strange because I can scale the game via Sketchstacker.exe with the flags "Son - Ext. inject" + "Shared hook". Run the game from the attached profile, go to Options and check Full screen mode
-Quite often it happens that after the second or subsequent launch the DxWnd doesn't hook game properly. In this case it's better to quit DxWnd and start it again. But I think it's not a big problem just an inconvenience.
-I had to set the scaling size to double (1280x960) otherwise I had a lot of artifacts probably caused by rounding. Although Force HALFTONE smoothed the game, but also produced a lot of artifacts.
In contrast, the GDI+ HalfTone FIlter had no smoothed effect.
-I also had to set the position to 0x0 and the modal window because I had problems with mouse clipping.
However after all that, I think it works quite well, enjoy.
P.S.
Unfortunately, the Blob online mini-game will not work due to the non-existing of a game server at this time.
Update:
My mistake, it seems that the moo.create-games.com server still exists, but the game won't connect.
It's a nice old game, you can download it here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180825054510/http://solgryn.org/Stuff/SketchStacker/SketchStacker.zip
The game works either in window or fullscreen in 640x480. In the main game you build a tower of geometric objects until it falls. There are also Extras (additional games). They are not accessible at the beginning, but it is not too difficult to unlock them.
The game has some peculiarities:
-It is probably on the same engine as Santaman II, it unpacks its files to Temp and uses another exe with the command
stdrt.exe /SF "GamePath\Sketchstacker.exe" /SO94208
-I copied all the files from Temp to the game folder and tried to hook stdrt.exe directly like I did in Santaman II. But in this case I couldn't scale the game in any way.
-This is strange because I can scale the game via Sketchstacker.exe with the flags "Son - Ext. inject" + "Shared hook". Run the game from the attached profile, go to Options and check Full screen mode
-Quite often it happens that after the second or subsequent launch the DxWnd doesn't hook game properly. In this case it's better to quit DxWnd and start it again. But I think it's not a big problem just an inconvenience.
-I had to set the scaling size to double (1280x960) otherwise I had a lot of artifacts probably caused by rounding. Although Force HALFTONE smoothed the game, but also produced a lot of artifacts.
In contrast, the GDI+ HalfTone FIlter had no smoothed effect.
-I also had to set the position to 0x0 and the modal window because I had problems with mouse clipping.
However after all that, I think it works quite well, enjoy.
P.S.
Unfortunately, the Blob online mini-game will not work due to the non-existing of a game server at this time.
Update:
My mistake, it seems that the moo.create-games.com server still exists, but the game won't connect.
Last edit: huh 2025-04-06
It's a real challenge. Opening the executable files with a debugger they show a nature quite different from what they seem.