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I'm currently working on a very lightweight theme for the GPDWin device. This one is pretty simple to help maximize performance because of the Atom processor and because of the limited storage space available. Because of this, the theme only utilizes screenshots and clear logo's. My premise on this is to have it preform well and be easy to read on the small screen while still looking classy. Since I don't actually have one of these devices to test this out on, I am also looking for a guinea pig or two that to help me test the performance out on the actual device (@Jason Carr I know you have one, but you're probably too busy to help).

Anyways, here's a couple shot of the game select screen...

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33 minutes ago, damageinc86 said:

I wouldn't like such dark vignetting on these, I'd rather have full brightness on a small screen to help see it better 

Yes I agree and it was something I was on the fence about as it was starting to come together. I'll comment it out as default but leave it there for anyone who wishes to utilize it. Thanks for the input, appreciated :)

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18 hours ago, Grila said:

Yes I agree and it was something I was on the fence about as it was starting to come together. I'll comment it out as default but leave it there for anyone who wishes to utilize it. Thanks for the input, appreciated :)

You could always clone the views offering both dark and light back grounds. I did something similar with vikings big couch theme. I just took the views I liked and reversed the colors, offering both day and night views.

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22 hours ago, Grila said:

I'm currently working on a very lightweight theme for the GPDWin device. This one is pretty simple to help maximize performance because of the Atom processor and because of the limited storage space available. Because of this, the theme only utilizes screenshots and clear logo's. My premise on this is to have it preform well and be easy to read on the small screen while still looking classy. Since I don't actually have one of these devices to test this out on, I am also looking for a guinea pig or two that to help me test the performance out on the actual device (@Jason Carr I know you have one, but you're probably too busy to help).

Anyways, here's a couple shot of the game select screen...

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its looking amazing.. is there any possible way we're you could have it that its just the front Box cover with the description on the side pretty much having a full screen wheel as you already have it ? (in other words instead of the gameplay screen shot have it be the box cover art). Keep up the great work its looking amazing

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4 minutes ago, Cookz718 said:

its looking amazing.. is there any possible way we're you could have it that its just the front Box cover with the description on the side pretty much having a full screen wheel as you already have it ? (in other words instead of the gameplay screen shot have it be the box cover art). Keep up the great work its looking amazing

Obviously i can't speak for @Grila as i don't think this is final and it's still all in flux, but you can always just go into Launchbox and go to image priorities, find gameplay, and then check the box front image and move it to the top of the list. That will force Launcbox/Bigbox to show the front box instead of the gameplay image. This works for all image priorities. 

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6 minutes ago, neil9000 said:

Obviously i can't speak for @Grila as i don't think this is final and it's still all in flux, but you can always just go into Launchbox and go to image priorities, find gameplay, and then check the box front image and move it to the top of the list. That will force Launcbox/Bigbox to show the front box instead of the gameplay image. This works for all image priorities. 

gotcha !! cant wait for the release of this.

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1 minute ago, Cookz718 said:

@Grila what would also be a nice touch (if you want) to put the ESRB rating on the bottom as well if you'd like.

More data to search for will slow the theme down i believe, i'm not a theme creator so i'm not 100%. 

The whole idea of this theme is to make it as lightweight as possible so as to run on very low powered devices. I'm of the understanding that the more data/images and such you want to retrieve from the xml's the more processing needs to be done to retrieve said info. But i'm sure grila will correct me if i'm wrong, he's not shy about that. ;) 

 

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Just now, neil9000 said:

More data to search for will slow the theme down i believe, i'm not a theme creator so i'm not 100%. 

The whole idea of this theme is to make it as lightweight as possible so as to run on very low powered devices. I'm of the understanding that the more data/images and such you want to retrieve from the xml's the more processing needs to be done to retrieve said info. But i'm sure grila will correct me if i'm wrong, he's not shy about that. ;) 

 

ahh okay i see !! gotcha !!

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Went back to work on this and re-designed the grid for reasons that can't be seen visually, but needed done for how things get laid out. Basically I started over from scratch. Here's some progress...not much today because I spent WAY too much time making some new platform banners specifically for the theme (so far I have 7 done). I'll attach those here as well just for S&G. The controller images are from the Mac front-end OpenEmu.

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