Lynium 2.3.0: a new interface, screen by screen

Every screen in the game has been rebuilt on one design system: one palette, two typefaces, one icon set. You pick the accent colour.

ONE SYSTEM, EVERY SCREEN

The game and the site finally look like the same product.

• ONE PALETTE: a purple here, a cyan there, one per panel ⇒ one ink ladder and one accent, everywhere.
• TWO TYPEFACES. Rajdhani for titles and numbers, Inter for text, sharp at any size.
• EVERY CORNER IS DRAWN by a shader instead of a stretched sprite.
• PICK YOUR ACCENT in Settings → Display: Lynium purple, magenta, violet, electric or orchid.
• ONE ICON SET, filled, plus nine glyphs drawn for this release.

THE HOME

• THE SERVER CARD IS LIVE: online, players, plays this week and beatmaps, with the week as a line.
• THE FEATURED CARD IS A SPOTLIGHT, with the cover as its head, Play beside download, and the day's three sets in a strip.
• THE TOP BAR reads in the display face and lights under the pointer.
• THE MUSIC BAR is dark glass: round transport, the Lynium triangle as the playhead, a heart and a volume track.

SONG SELECTION

The carousel is untouched. Everything around it is not.

• ONE PANEL: two cards with two frosts meeting in a notch ⇒ the leaderboard and your record under one frost.
• ROWS READ IN PP, IN SCORE OR IN BOTH. Click the numbers and the choice sticks.
• THE BEATMAP CARD IS BUILT AROUND THE CHART: difficulty, mapper, four tiles, note density and tags.
• WHAT THE CHART IS MADE OF: "4 lanes", which the chip above already said ⇒ Rice, Jumpstream or Chordjack, classified for 3,986 of the 4,110 charts.
• THE LIKE WORKS. Every click used to fire a like and its undo, which the server read as a dislike.
• THE FILTERS ARE PILLS with a glyph in front of the word.

THE BEATMAP BROWSER

• IT TAKES THE WHOLE SCREEN, with a left rail instead of floating cards.
• FOR YOU picks a set from your own scores, with one line on why and Another pick to walk the batch.
• YOUR LIBRARY says sets, charts, played, folder size and the last set added.
• THE ROWS have a fixed action column, so the cloud and the percentage never move the numbers.
• SHOW PP makes every chip say what a perfect run pays.
• THE PAGER is round arrows with the current page filled in the accent.

THE MODS WINDOW

• SPEED AND TARGET DIFFICULTY are the two levers on top, with ticks and a bubble while you drag.
• EASY AND HARDER ARE GONE. The target slider is the whole control now.
• NOTHING CYCLES ANY MORE: one card you clicked through ⇒ No Miss, Perfect and SSS are three cards, Mirror and Random two.
• THE COLOUR ALONE SAYS A CARD IS ON. The halo and the corner tick are gone.
• THE MULTIPLIER is in the header, Reset all in the footer.

SETTINGS

• THE WINDOW is a glass card with the search as a pill and close as a round icon button.
• THE RAIL puts a glowing bar behind the open tab.
• EVERY ROW CARRIES A GLYPH, and descriptions wrap instead of running under their control.
• THE DEAD BUTTONS ANSWER NOW. EDIT, WORKSHOP and RESTORE DEFAULTS had a colour tint with nothing to tint.
• ACCOUNT OPTIONS: a page that posted through a channel dead for years ⇒ it opens your page on the site.

CHAT

• THE CARD is glass, with CHANNELS and DIRECT headings and unread pills in the accent.
• A MESSAGE ROW gets a face, the author in their rank colour, pill reactions and day separators.
• SEEN TODAY joins ONLINE NOW: everyone who wrote in the last day, and how long ago.
• #ANNOUNCEMENTS is a channel in the game now, with its Discord formatting and its reactions.
• AN INVITE TO THE DISCORD sits at the foot of the rail. Half that window comes from there.

THE PAUSE SCREEN

• THE ROWS carry a glyph and a wash of the accent on hover. Return is in the danger tone.
• THE BEATMAP CARD IS THE HERO, with this attempt drawn over the chart's note density.
• SHARE, OPEN ON THE SITE AND FAVOURITE are on the card.

THE RESULTS SCREEN

The grade is light now, not a badge.

• THE MEDAL is drawn by a shader: four fans, a spill and sparks, landing on a ring and a flash.
• IT ARRIVES IN ACTS, 9.3 seconds where it was 3.15.
• THE SCORE CAPTION IS A BUTTON. Click it and pp takes the big figure's place, next time too.
• THE CURVE RUNS ON THE SONG'S CLOCK: note by note, so a break was invisible ⇒ a bead follows the music and a line says where the run fell.
• THE SONG KEEPS PLAYING, and a click on the curve plays from that point.
• TWO WINGS: the cover, chart, mods and buttons on one side, accuracy, combo and notes on the other.
• THE VERDICT is chips: your personal best, your place on the board, and whether it made Top plays.
• SEE RESULT on a song selection row opens that run here, curve included.

THE SKIN EDITOR

• THE PANEL docks beside the playfield, with the skin's name and its status as a chip.
• THE THREE TABS are segments, and rows lost their guide lines.
• THE SONG'S TRANSPORT moved inside the window, above See shortcuts and Save.

THE BEATMAP EDITOR

• THE MENU BAR says which beatmap, at which difficulty, and whether anything is unsaved.
• THE MENUS: columns of text with rows of dashes ⇒ every entry with its icon and its key.
• VIEW carries a switch per layer, read when the menu opens.
• HELP is the fourth menu: the eleven shortcuts the editor really binds, keys drawn as keys.
• THE FIVE DIALOGS are on the system, with one accent button, the one that commits.

THE FIRST RUN

• ONE STAGE UNDER EVERY QUESTION, with six notes across the top that light as you answer.
• SIX QUESTIONS: language, playfield, difficulty, timing, view and a starter pack.
• IT ENDS ON YOUR FIRST SONG, in the playfield you picked, and nothing closes on a timer.
• THE ENTRANCE WELCOMES YOU BY NAME: the name of the game, to somebody who had just opened it ⇒ your name, the time of day, and a load bar that moves.

BUGFIXES

• The frost behind a window reaches the overlays, so the music bar and the profile card no longer float sharp over a blurred world.
• The frost stops stamping depth over the card behind it, and blurs the same amount through any camera.
• Rows of segments answer the pointer. They had a hover colour and no way to reach it.
• The Replay on a leaderboard row can be pressed, and the card it opens points at the play.
• A finished download no longer makes the downloads card flicker.
• The library is told when the browser lands a set.
• The mapper's name on the intro card lost the colon in the way of it.
• A shape's glow stays inside the quad that draws it.

SEE YOU ON THE PLAYFIELD

This is the biggest visual change Lynium has had. Tell us what reads better, what reads worse, and which accent you picked.

• DISCORD: discord.com/invite/8E4yhX5EbH
• THE SITE: lyniumgame.com