Hallfiry reporting in.
Hello Mr. Temporary.
1. Thanks for all that info.
2. The "stages" are are just a chronological order of the screenshots (as I thought it might be fitting (and the 1.5 thing came when I found new shots and didn't want to scrap the old order)). You are obviouly right that most of them are mockups and sometimes almost identical.
It took me quite a while to find all the details that defined the order of the screenshots.
Differences between the "stages":
-1 to 1.5: hut-like orc buildings instead of castles
-1.5 to 2: Orc buttons
-2 to 3: Button order
-3 to Stones: Obviously the resources
-Stones to No Stones: Resource icons and no stones
-No Stone to Almost Final: Icon backgrounds, icons, Human interface
-Almost Final to Final: Recource icons and the things that you said
3. Please contact me, you won't regret it:
hallfiry {at} gmx {dot} de
BTW: Have you listened to the legendary Bill Roper recording from 1995? A very special gem from my archives
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGubpJxMr3s