A fullscreen windows app for selecting PC games with a focus on local multiplayer games (couch games)
Choosing what couch game to play with friends who may not know what each game is from the icon/banner image.
I had tried Steam 'Big Picture Mode' but it lacked any videos and was too generic. I also tried Launchbox with BigBox mode and though it had videos it was still too generic so i decided to create something specific to couch gaming.
- Simple, intuitive UI to scroll through games
- Focus on Couch Games
- Show how many people can play ('? players')
- Show genre and game modes ('VS' and/or 'CO-OP')
- Show video of the game
- Launch games from the app
- Filter games by minimum amount of players
Once you clone the repo, there is a shortcut under the dist folder called "CouchGames" that will launch the app
- React UI
- Gamepad is the only input device currently
- Windows only (can be for other platforms if you add the binaries)
- Webpack build system
- Used prettier.js for code formmating
- ESlint also used
- Yarn
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src
- data - this is where the json data is kept for media urls and game executable locations
- ui - React UI for the app
- App.js - core react component that manages the state
- components - presentational components
- main.js - the 'system' side of the electron app
- renderer.js - the 'ui' side of the electron app, mounts react app, links comms from gamepad and main.js
- gamepad.js - js library imported to handle gamepad inputs
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dist - contains windows binaries for electron app
- resources/app - dist files from the src folder