Game details panel: improved design, layout and performance

Three weeks ago, we did a huge “more compact design” update. Today, we are continuing with another update that improves the design, layout and performance of your game details panel.

Here’s what has changed:

• Flexible layout: the layout now fully adapts to the width of your details panel.
• Fields moved: we moved some fields around, to make sure the most important fields are at the top. For example, the Index field has been moved down to the “Personal” block.
• New (or updated) Platform icons: Platform icons are now available for a lot more platforms and are now displayed on a white background to make them stand out more.
• Youtube trailers: trailer videos now show up as a video thumbnails that links to the video on the Youtube site. No more embedded videos, as these often did not work (embed not allowed) and made the details panel load very slow.
• Faster loading: the details panel now loads much faster, as it now delays the loading of the backdrop and because the trailer video is not embedded anymore

Flexible layout

The layout of the game details area, now fully adapts to the width of your details panel, whether you have it “low and wide” at the bottom of your screen, or “high and narrow” on the right side, or everything in between. All data is in “blocks” that fill the available space as efficiently as possible.

New Platform icons

New (or updated) platform icons are now available for the following consoles:

• 64DD
• Atari 7800
• CD-I
• ColecoVision
• Evercade
• Family Computer / Famicom
• Family Computer Disk System
• Intellivision
• Mac
• Magnavox Odyssey
• Magnavox Odyssey 2
• Neo Geo MVS
• Nintendo Switch
• Nintendo Switch 2
• PC
• PlayStation 2
• PlayStation 3
• PlayStation 4
• PlayStation 5
• Virtual Boy
• ZX Spectrum

And we will be adding more in the future!