I’ve been working on this little project for a few weeks now, and thought I’d let you guys know about it.
The startup screen of R@H.
Basically, R@H (Romulation @ Home) is an RSS/XML reader for the RomUlation feeds. It reads the newest games, forums posts, and announcements, and displays them in a user-friendly manner, which will be very customizable.
After you click ’start’ on the main screen, R@H takes you to this:
The ‘home’ screen of R@H.
The first thing you should notice is the beautiful artwork in the background. This was made by Samakor, better known as Sam. Let’s give him a big thanks by visiting his site and playing his games!
The feed boxes on this page are where the newest games, posts, etc. will be displayed once they have finished loading.
At the very bottom is a News Ticker. The ticker loads data directly from my blog, and places it at the bottom. Handy information, and notifications of new versions will be shown here. See the image below.
The feeds once they have finished loading.
In the top-right is an Options button, which is where we’ll go next. Clicking on Options brings you to this page.
The Options page of R@H.
As you can see, there is not much here at the moment. This is the area which I am focusing on most right now. So far, you only have the option to disable the feed boxes and the News Ticker. Another ability you have is to drag the feed boxes wherever you want, allowing more customization. See image below.
A page that has been customized.
One more thing. You may have noticed the trucks and cars along the bottom of the screen. These vehicles cross in a random order. One time you may have a red car, but the next it may be a truck delivering ‘Loony Lions’ or ROMs. You never know.
What’s in Store for R@H:
Currently, there is very little customization you can do. As this is only an Alpha (4.0, to be exact), that is to be expected. In the next release, the following options will be available.
- The ability to choose the opacity of the feed boxes using a slider.
- The ability to choose the background color of the feed boxes.
- The ability to choose whether the feeds display title and information, or just title.
- The ability to toggle cars and trucks on/off.
- More feeds.
- The ability to load your own picture as the background.
Well, that’s all the information I have right now on my little project, but I hope you enjoyed learning about it. I’ll keep working, and more updates will be available later.
If you have any ideas or suggestions for R@H, leave a comment with it! Feedback is always appreciated.
Regards,
- Winterreise
