Unique game icons

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Is this a good idea?

Yes
17
85%
No
3
15%
 
Total votes : 20

Unique game icons

Postby Semperverus » Fri Apr 23, 2010 3:58 pm

I talked to oggy about this already, and he wasnt sure on it from what I gathered, so I'm here to ask your opinion on it.

What if the gfire plugin were able to take the red die icon that shows up when someone is playing a game and replace it with the game-specific icon you would normally see in the xfire client? the way this would have to work, in order to keep the project size down, is that the script would have to be put into it, and then users would need to make icon packs in .png format. This would allow higher quality icons AND customization. Take for instance the HL2 icons. In xfire they look terrible, but the quality could be improved when it gets remade for gfire.
I don't think the code for this would be hard, since all you would have to do is insert a .png icon at a 16x16 size (stretched down from original size if necessary) and name the .png after the xfire game id, like 5548.png would be the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky icon.

Your oppinions? good idea? useless idea?

EDIT:

Ah yes, I forgot to mention ideally what would happen if there were no icon in the pack for the specific game being played: the red die icon would still show up in its place.

EDIT AGAIN:

tl;dr:
oggy puts in a piece of script to show custom game icon for current game being played. users make the icons so the gfire team doesn't have to. Plug icons into special folder and voila, gfire starts using it apropriately based on the xfire games list.
Last edited by Semperverus on Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:06 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Re: Unique game icons

Postby NiveusLuna » Fri Apr 23, 2010 8:58 pm

I'm not going to vote on this because I don't have an opinion either way. If people want to make custom icons, more power to them. If not, I don't mind the red die.
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Re: Unique game icons

Postby atlas » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:06 pm

To allow users to make their own icon packs, I vote yes.

From what I've seen, Gfire is about freedom of client. To allow someone to use their own game icons fits, but to have game icons forced upon them doesn't.
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Re: Unique game icons

Postby Semperverus » Fri Apr 23, 2010 9:09 pm

right, thats what im saying. the plugin wouldn't come with any icons by default and would use the red die for any games that didn't have an apropriate icon file tied to it.
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Re: Unique game icons

Postby oGGy » Sun May 02, 2010 2:42 pm

Implemented, I'd say :)
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