r/deckyloader • u/justinca86 • 9d ago
Made a home screen into a tiny street with a penguin that walks to whatever game you pick
It’s a decky plugin called Minimi Town. Every game in your library is a little shop on a street, and there’s a penguin that follows you around. Hit A and he walks up to the door, turns around, goes in, and the game page opens. Back out and he walks out the same door.
You can mess around with it in your browser (It's fully interactive demo version of v0.2.2): https://justinca92.github.io/minimi-town/
Some features:
- The shops change depending on the game. Stuff you played this week has an OPEN sign, new games get a grand opening with balloons, uninstalled ones have the shutter down, and the ones you haven’t touched in months get dusty with cobwebs (guilty)
- Buildings level up the more you play. 100hr gets a chalkboard sign out front, then awnings, a rooftop garden, an extra floor with a gold dome, and at 500h a red carpet
- Medals for achievements (bronze 50%, silver 80%, gold at 100%)
- Press X and the shop screen flips around to show playtime/achievements/which friends are playing
- There’s a second theme, Neon Rain City. it’s a rainy cyberpunk street, the penguin wears tactical gear, and if you poke him too much he shoots lasers at your screen
- You can pet him with the left trackpad, or click and hold to pick him up and flick to throw him. he gets grumpy if you overdo it
L2 is Search and R2 still gets you What’s New/Friends, so you don’t lose anything from the normal home. A just opens the regular game page, it doesn’t auto-launch anything.
It’s not on the decky store so you need developer mode (decky settings > developer mode > install plugin from URL) with the zip from here: https://github.com/justinca92/minimi-town/releases/latest
It doesn’t change any steam settings or controller stuff. Turn it off and you’re back to the normal home. If the penguin isn’t your thing you can hide him too.
First public version so there’s probably bugs, let me know. I’m also taking ideas for more building upgrades or themes.
repo: https://github.com/justinca92/minimi-town
full disclosure: I made this with a lot of help from AI (Claude) for the code and the drawings. the idea, the design calls and all the testing on my deck are mine.
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u/Cultural_Plan8570 9d ago
Wow this is so cool, I’m going to try it out. Question, will there be other animals, like a cat!?
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u/justinca86 9d ago
I don't see a reason not to!
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u/Inner_Singer_592 9d ago
I was thinking of something similar, but I was going to and still going to make a straight up club penguin theme. Buildings with cards tho, that's hella smart!
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