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All-in-One View Combining Platforms and Games in BigBox

📋Summary

Introduce a new hybrid view mode in BigBox that displays both platforms and games on a single screen. This layout would enable smoother navigation and unlock more dynamic and intuitive theme designs — for example, showcasing a platform wheel at the top and a game wheel or grid below it.


❗Problem

Currently, BigBox separates platform and game views, requiring users to transition between them. While this keeps navigation structured, it limits creative flexibility in theme design and slows down browsing for users who want to quickly jump between platforms and games.


💡Proposal

  • Add a new BigBox view type that displays:

    • A platform selector (e.g., horizontal wheel) at the top or side

    • A game selector (e.g., wheel or grid) for the currently selected platform directly below or beside it

  • Enable theme developers to design layouts where both are visible and interactive simultaneously

  • Maintain keyboard/controller navigation focus depending on user interaction


✅Benefits

  • Creates a faster, more fluid browsing experience

  • Allows users to see their entire collection at a glance

  • Unlocks new UI/UX designs and animation opportunities for theme creators

  • Reduces the number of navigation steps for casual users and improves usability for large collections 🎮🖥️🧩

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  • AstroBob changed status to Completed
    Team•

    Jul 3, 2025

    Pinned

    Hi Folks,

    With the release of 13.22, Big Box now supports new Hybrid Views!

    Check out the full details here:

    Hybrid Views

    Marking this as completed

  • AstroBob changed status to Planned
    Team•

    May 5, 2025

    Pinned

    Thanks for the great suggestion here, I’ve fleshed out this proposal as this is something the team is currently looking into. Setting to “planned” and expect more details on this in the near future :)

  • le.viking

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    May 5, 2025

    BigBox : All-in-one view mixing Platform & Games

    A new type of view for BigBox, enabling simultaneous navigation between platforms and games.

    We can imagine a top horizontal wheel for platforms, and below that a horizontal wheel for games, or perhaps a wall grid. This opens up new types of design/navigation when creating themes, with real bias.