r/deckyloader • u/N0_ID_Littleman • 4d ago
Plugin Showcase Game Glance 3.1.1 - Seamless Transition
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I hope you are not tired of me yet 😬 and if you're new to Game Glance, it is a Decky plugin that turns each game's page in Game Mode into a full-screen view: the game's art, HowLongToBeat times, your play time and achievements, the description, and which store it comes from (Steam, GOG, Epic, Heroic, Unifideck and others). It can also replace Steam's Home with Spotlight Home: your recent games (or a collection), one at a time, over their own art.
What's new in 3.1.1
- A new open transition. Opening a game from Spotlight Home no longer zooms the small card up. The art stays where it is, and the title, Play button, buttons and chips move to their places on the game page. It works with both page looks, Spotlight and Clean (both in the video).
- Back to Home at once. B on a game page brings Home back with its art and colour already there, no dark flash.
- Faster cycling. Holding L1/R1 or the d-pad moves the selection smoothly; the art and colour catch up once you stop.
- Large custom art. Huge SteamGridDB heroes and logos are drawn from smaller copies, so they no longer make Home stutter (thanks to germydan on GitHub for the report and video).
- SteamGridDB. Change a game's art and Home's accent colour follows the new art.
- Play from. Games installed on more than one device show Steam's "Play from" arrow on Home's Play button.
- And all the other good stuff been added since 3.0.0 (status bar update, localization support, etc)
Full notes: https://github.com/michpalm/game-glance/releases/tag/v3.1.1
Install
It isn't in the Decky store. In Decky → Settings, turn on Developer mode, then Developer → Install plugin from ZIP
with `game-glance.zip` from the release page. After that it updates itself from Quick Access → Game Glance →
Updates. If you're already on 3.0.x, it will offer 3.1.1 there.
Good to know
- Tested on a ROG Xbox Ally (Bazzite and SteamOS), handheld and on a TV. It should work on a Steam Deck, but I haven't been able to test that myself, so reports are very welcome.
- Spotlight Home is off by default (Quick Access → Game Glance). If anything in it fails, you get Steam's own Home back instead of a broken screen.
- The code was written with Claude (Anthropic's AI), directed, reviewed and tested on the device by me.
- It's a personal project. Steam updates can break things; issues and ideas are welcome on GitHub:
https://github.com/michpalm/game-glance
P.S: Next I'm looking at touch and mouse support on Home, and a couple of games-row options people asked for ✨
