Family Feuds

(Windows Screensaver)

Family Feuds - Become the dominant family!

Family Feuds 😀


This screensaver was actually written in an early version of VB decades ago, unfortunately the original code was lost over time, so feeling a bit of nostalgia it has been recreate this time in C#.

You can customize it in the screensaver's settings to add your own name and other family members or friends, whomever you add will appear on screen when the screensaver activates then the feuding begins!

People will bump into each other along the way this can lead to:

  Marriage and kids or if they are already married it causes a partners jealousy.

  Arguments and fights where people can get injured or even die.

Family feuds occur when someone causes a death in another family, when this happens it causes anger amongst the bereaved family and they will band together to attack the person who is to blame, this in turn may kill that person which angers their family and the situation soon escalates into a full blown war the survivors of which are more likely to be the biggest family, this is by no means certain though.

Parents and children have a special bond that shows on screen as a pink line for the mothers and a blue line for the fathers.

You'll may see people partying which is them celebrating a birthday with close family members.

Each person is born with an energy level/lifespan that is effected by old age or sustaining injuries, when their energy is gone they will pass on to heaven or hell depending on whether they have not killed anyone.

A person will also think of random ideas, they may decide to change direction or eat something which will increases their energy/lifespan or even to have more kids.

Emotions a person may go through in Family Feuds:

Love

Male

Female

Baby

Happy

Sad

Party

Jealous

Angry

Injured

Angel

Devil

Image of the Family Feuds screensaver.

Watch as families grow over time to become the most dominant, when only one family remains there will be a firework display that lasts a few seconds before families start over.

Image of the firework display that happens when there is only one family left.

Family Feuds - Settings

Configure the Family Feuds screensaver

You can set up custom people and the number of default people to start with on this form,  Custom people are the name and gender you add to the list, default people are generated by the computer.


Custom People

This list allows you to personalize the screen saver you can add yourself and other family members or friends but the surnames need to match for family members.


People Generated (excluding custom)

This will set the number of default people that are generated in the beginning this excludes the custom people in the list.

Note: If this value is set to zero the firework display will run continuously.



You can access screen saver settings by running the Change screen saver application in Windows 11.

If your a developer or just interested in how the Family Feuds screensaver was made the source code can be found on GitHub.

Note:

Screensavers are basically Windows executable files which are classified as suspicious files and will need confirmation to download, these files are not normally downloaded as they can be dangerous like malware or virusesHowever it is the only way to download the Family Feuds screen saver.

The contents of the downloaded FamilyFeuds.zip file is shown below the file is safe to download it does not contain anything dangerous and any virus checker you have will confirm this for you.


Download contains:

FamilyFeuds (zip file) - 1. Download

FamilyFeuds (folder)  - 2. Extract using File Explorer

FamilyFeuds.deps.json (dependency)

FamilyFeuds.dll (dependency)

FamilyFeuds.pdb (dependency)

FamilyFeuds.runtimeconfig.json (dependency)

😃 FamilyFeuds.scr (screensaver) -- 3. Right click and Install.


Installation Instructions for Windows 11: