[THEME] >>> GameroomEX <<<

[KRC]

Look's good

You can tell that a lot of progression has been made since GameRoom V1 was first introduced. Even though the changes are minor they make a lot of difference.

[Krakerman]

Thanks KRC ... it's sure been alot of hard work and time to create this theme. Now that I got my framework files finalized ... at least I hope so. I can start working on the game and system themes. Here are a couple Daphne game themes I finished tonight Astron Belt and Badlands.

[KRC]

I thought the Banner style logo's were just for systems but it's cool how they are for games aswell

[Krakerman]

Well sort of..... unfortunately with the limitations of GameEx the individual game themes can't have banners. So with the individual game banners I have incorporated them into the game theme itself if that makes any sense at all.

This is why we need the ability to have more objects to be displayed in our themes. Then I could have individual game banners. Request has already been mentioned a long time ago.

[Krakerman]

Since KRC mentioned to me about the Gameroom v2 framework file. Attached is the psd file to be able to create the individual game themes.

[NOTE]

- The video box will need to be transparent however I made it black so you could create your own borders

around it then you will need to cut out the black box for the video or else the video will not show thru.

- Also I made all the colors white but you can go in and change those colors to whatever you want. You can cut

those colors out as well and make a custom graphical background if you so choose. This theme I made it so

you could customize it much more than the first one. As you can see I even added a bit of dimensions to my

bezels using a plugin in Paint.net.

[uPDATE]

- Fixed the Banner Bezel. Forgot to include the shadowing around the inside of the bezel.

[Krakerman]

Here is the banner mask for those wanting to make banners. You can use this psd file to cutout your banners.

[celly]

Very cool Krak! The banners look REALLY good incorporated into the theme.

[Krakerman]

Thanks Celly.

More themes for Daphne .... only a few more to go to make this set complete.

[KRC]

Looking good, One thing I like about this theme is how the Title is in the banner, it gives free space to the rest of the theme

[Krakerman]

Hopefully I can get the rest of the Daphne themes done today! This one noone has probally seen before in any other frontend before ... an exclusive to GameEx!

All done with Paint.net my friends!

[KRC]

Yep seen that before.

Joke

[Krakerman]

Almost done!

[Krakerman]

Ok guys I deleted all previous screenshots and the framework file as I am working on a whole new layout and let me tell you I think you will be suprised. Stay tuned as I almost got my layout files done and I am testing it out and should have an updated screenshot soon!

I'm really excited about this as it is 100x better than before.

You want to talk about progression KRC well I think this updated theme will deliver on that thought.

[Krakerman]

Ok guys here is my latest WIP!

It's still in early beta stages but it's coming along nicely .... What do you think so far?

[Krakerman]

Early WIP of my MAME theme featuring Pac-Man. Decided to test out what individual game themes can look like.

[uPDATE] See below for updated screenshots!

[GimmeClassics]

Wow, absolutely amazing !!!

I was really hoping you would incorporate a gamelist. I loved everything about your V1 theme apart from not being able to scroll quickly to the system / game of your choice. This is really looking good Great work !

3 questions for you...:

1. could you also add the little game-icons when selecting a game ? Like in the screenshot below. That would really make it a perfect theme

2. When you select a game in your V2-theme will GameEx show the default game menu options like below ? That would be most ideal I really like all of these options. Especially the hi-score menu option...

3. incorporating a hi-score rss-feed would be making it a theme from heaven . I welcome you to read / follow the discussion about such a feed in the Hi-Score Database Manager thread > link

Hope to hear from you !

GC

[you are, of course, more than welcome to join our Hi-Score Competition
It's very simple > choose a game, follow the rules of post #1 of that game and submit your hi-score The more the merrier ---> link ]

[Krakerman]

@GimmeClassics ...1 & 2 are now implemented!

Each MAME game can have it's own theme (just like the original) as you can see I could even change the whole color scheme if I wanted too. Also no more screen flashing (Black) between game themes like the original Gameroom theme did.

I will look into your last request about the rss feeds.

[GimmeClassics]

This is looking amazing. Really looking forward to these individual game themes

This has a greate chance of becoming my most favorite theme !!!

About the rss feed > just follow the discussion in the thread-link I gave you What I last suggested is having / creating a rss-scroller for each game participating in our hi-score competition. Let's wait and see what is possible...

Keep up the good work

GC

[KRC]

Looks a lot different than before, looking forward to how this one pans out.

[Krakerman]

Here is screenshot of the Atari 2600 theme (WIP). This theme is compatible with Hyperspin's cart wheel images. So you can use those to display your cart labels in this theme. I have also made a ton of custom labels that aren't available even on Hyperspin. The total number of cart labels I have is 637 including Homebrew.

[Krakerman]

@KRC with Tom and the guys working on updating GameEx's Graphic/Theme Engine I decided I didn't want to put a ton of work and effort into the theme and then have to switch over to the new system and start all over. So I am making this much easier to use with all of GameEx features enabled and much more user friendly to setup as well. So you won't have to modify your current setups to get it to work.

@GC Well I could do individual themes for the console/handheld/computer systems but I decided against it (see my comments to KRC above why). However MAME will be the only system that will have the ability to do individual game themes at this time.

[KRC]

@KRC with Tom and the guys working on updating GameEx's Graphic/Theme Engine I decided I didn't want to put a ton of work and effort into the theme and then have to switch over to the new system and start all over. So I am making this much easier to use with all of GameEx features enabled and much more user friendly to setup as well. So you won't have to modify your current setups to get it to work.

@GC Well I could do individual themes for the console/handheld/computer systems but I decided against it (see my comments to KRC above why). However MAME will be the only system that will have the ability to do individual game themes at this time.

I think just going ahead with MAME Themes and leaving the Console/Handheld/PC game themes out is probably a smart move.

It makes a change seeing a list in your theme's.

[GimmeClassics]

@Krak: If you could do individual Mame themes I'd be very happy Classic games rule !

How do you select the Mame-games for which you create individual themes ? Maybe a bald request but could I (and others) perhaps suggest Mame-games ? I'd very much like to see my favorites with a cool individual gametheme

[Krakerman]

@GC You can always request a games theme and I'll see what I can do.

[GimmeClassics]

A couple of my favorites. You may already have created themes for some of these games

Donkey Kong

Donkey Kong Jr

Donkey Kong 3

Mario Bros.

Circus Charlie

Tempest

Popeye

Mr. Do

R-type

Lady Bug

NitroBall

Burger Time

Clash-Road

Bubble Bobble

Arabian

GC

Edited June 22, 2013 by Tempest
Edited to include Tempest :-)