djh_ Wrote:I'm not sure that applies to all the views, but you'll be pleased to know the balance of fanart and information is our foremost concern with this new one. Well, one of them.
True, one (from what I remember) of the views shows off the fanart nicely, but for some reason it has horrible performance on my system so it's not really usable for me. Might have missed some settings, though, I suppose. But for instance the "wall" view where there's a wall of posters, it's *extremely* slow for me. You can barely even scroll through it. And that's on a Mac Mini, is this normal? Maybe I'm doing something wrong...
djh_ Wrote:It won't look much like that one but, again, the strengths you mentioned are important.
I'm glad you're acknowledging the importance (or rather, awesomeness) of fan art. Far too many skins obstruct it almost or completely with lots of information boxes. I suppose to many it's preferable as it's arguably more functional, but personally I find the aesthetics just as important. For instance when you have friends over and you're deciding to watch a movie, scrolling through a ton of movies is a lot more fun with gorgeous fan art, it can give you a feel for the style and tone of the movie very effectively, as well.
Either way, I'm really excited to see how this is going to turn out. I'm sure it'll be stunning. You guys do seem to focus on the fanart, at least judging from the main menu which is basically built completely around showing off gorgeous fan art. (At least, that's the feeling I get from it. That's not to say the other elements don't look fantastically executed as well, though
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djh_ Wrote:There is no time frame. To come up with one would be pointless given that we both have quite unpredictable jobs. The best we can do is provide info and screenshots as and when they're available, which is hopefully what we're doing.
That's cool, I imagine it takes a LOT of time and effort to get it to all work properly. Either way we'll be here waiting (im)patiently for more tidbits and an eventual release...
