[7] When the OS/2 market collapsed, he shifted Stardock to Windows, heading development of PC game Entrepreneur, while coordinating the creation of WindowBlinds and other Object Desktop components.

[9] While recognizing copyright infringement as an issue, he felt that efforts to prevent it ended up making software more frustrating for legitimate customers.

[11][12][13] Gas Powered Games' Chris Taylor – who was working with Stardock on Demigod at the time – called the bill "an awesome framework for the industry to aspire to.

[18] He subsequently designed The Political Machine and Elemental, as well as two expansions: (Dark Avatar and Twilight of the Arnor) to Galactic Civilizations II.

[24] As part of this endeavor, Wardell founded the Stardock Staffing Company to allow developers and artists to work on projects between a coalition of game studios to provide better job security.

The book is set a thousand years after the Cataclysm, after the time of the game itself,[57] and involves the quest of a former messenger to save mankind from the Fallen.

[61] Wardell has endorsed several criticisms raised by the Gamergate campaign, stating that "anyone reading the gaming sites has seen the trend over the past few years of activist journalism creeping in".