Stardock did not receive the majority of royalties from the initial sales of Galactic Civilizations due to publisher bankruptcy in addition to taking on many of the publisher's responsibilities, but the market had been created for subsequent addon packs including the Shipyards expansion, and Stardock later sold a significant number of licenses to IBM for part of its Family FunPak (under the name Star Emperor).

Stardock's initial product was a computer game for OS/2 called Galactic Civilizations. Stardock began as a custom PC maker and expanded into making software. Stardock was founded by college student Brad Wardell and named after a major city in Raymond E. Many of the skins and themes featured on its site are for software that is part of their Object Desktop windows desktop suite. Stardock created and maintains WinCustomize, a graphical user interface customization community, and developed the Impulse content delivery system before its sale to GameStop. The company is best known for computer programs that allow a user to modify or extend a graphical user interface as well as personal computer games, particularly strategy games such as the Galactic Civilizations series, Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion, Elemental: Fallen Enchantress, and Ashes of the Singularity.

Stardock initially developed for the OS/2 platform, but was forced to switch to Microsoft Windows due to the collapse of the OS/2 software market between 19. Stardock Corporation is a software development company founded in 1991 and incorporated in 1993 as Stardock Systems.

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