Hi. I made a game launcher. Yes, another one. The world needed a 47th, apparently.

Full disclosure: it's vibecoded. I wrote the prompts and the AI wrote most of the code. So yes, it's slop. But it's my slop, I use it every day, and I like it more than I'd like to admit. I know how to code tho.

## What it does

- One library for everything: Steam (with non-Steam shortcuts), GOG, Epic, Battle.net, EA app, Ubisoft Connect, Xbox PC, plus your own random `.exe` / `.lnk` / `.ps1` files

- Steam collections management: create, rename, reorder and add games, and it syncs back to the Steam client. Works offline too.

- Install games straight from the launcher: Steam (with progressbar on the tiles), plus Epic and GOG without their launchers (Legendary / offline installers). Uninstall from the game menu too...

- Pause your games: quick-resume style suspend and resume, console-like experience if you have a lot of RAM (experimental, don't sue me)

- Made for a gamepad, console style: Xbox, DualSense, DS4, Switch Pro, with an on-screen keyboard. Mouse and keyboard work too, and there's a separate windowed desktop mode

- Way too many layouts. Home screens and library views "inspired by" (definitely not stolen from) PS5, Xbox 360 Metro, XMB, Kodi-like, Netflix and others. Library views: grid, list, cinema, coverflow, shelf, and for no good reason also floppy disks, Switch cartridges and NES cartridges

- Artwork from SteamGridDB with OCR auto-crop for rectangle, plus ratings and metadata from Steam and RAWG (optional)

- Emulators: EmuDeck / ES-DE integration, grouped by console

- Glance: Steam news, upcoming releases and updates for games you own

- In-game overlay with FPS / 1% lows from PresentMon (experimental)

- Plugin system with an SDK (HowLongToBeat, etc.)

- An anime AI companion Yes, there's an anime companions that talks about your library, recommends games, roast your backlog and has its own Instagram-style feed. I know. I *know*. It's optional and I won't explain myself.

## Tech

C++20, Win32, Direct2D. No Electron and no HTML, so it doesn't eat 2 GB of RAM to show you 40 covers. That was the only rule I didn't let the AI break.

## The bad parts

- Windows only
- Some files are 2k lines long.
- Some of the docs were written by an LLM *for* an LLM
- Bugs: probably yes

## So...

Does the world really need another launcher? Probably not. Roast me anyway, and I'll probably make the repo public soon.

## EDIT:
Public now, dl, fork or contribute here: uxandai/launchme
Hunting bugs / fixing UI now.

PS long press for context menu, also you can change default behaviour to show details instead of running game directly. Forgot to change it in settings.

I use my new Chrome plugin Startwerk for a tidy new start page in Google Chrome, and I took the photo of the beach in Corsica. The appointment in the menu bar comes from the app Final Call. I hope someone likes it 🙂

Desktop: It's Solar Gradients by Apple (love it!).

Not visible in the screenshot: I use SuperCMD as my launcher, which is an affordable Raycast alternative that works great, which is why I'd like to recommend it here.

A Witcher 3 inspired Rainmeter/ Wallpaper Engine desktop i made. First screen was inspired by u/Outstanding_McLarry from his post on here a few months ago just updated it to be animated using HTML.

Can you imagine Microsoft now selects AI generated wallpapers for your desktop?

Do you like it?🤩

Ubuntu on MacBook your thoughts 💬

after i long time i post some thing

Hi everyone! I’d like you to rate my workspace and computer desktop on a scale of 1 to 10. Also, I want to thank u/Competitive-Hat-3218; he helped me with some Windhawk mods, and I was somewhat inspired by his "black hole" idea.

https://github.com/BillyNabil/nabyscape

I made AFK Wars as a screensaver: wireframe fleets keep fighting on their own while the desktop is idle. This is an actual 3440×1440 capture of the running simulation. The widescreen view is rendered at that size, not stretched from a smaller image.

Watch is free for Windows and Linux: https://afkwars.com/screensavers/?campaign=desktop-showcase

It works as a standalone background app too. Windows builds are currently unsigned; Linux desktop screensaver integration targets GNOME on X11. Installation notes and compatibility details are beside the downloads.

If you try it, I'd like to know three things: Did installation work on your setup? Was it clear what the battle was doing? Would you leave it running again? Your display size and OS would help. I'll ask permission before quoting anyone's feedback.

I can't stand file names being cutoff in my windows explorer folders... I made an app that automatically resizes explorer columns to the widest file name.

Check it out! https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9MX47F0W3CVB?hl=en-us&gl=CA&ocid=pdpshare

Get your life back, stop double clicking.

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