[turok]

I wanted to see what kinds of GUI ideas you guys are thinking for displaying the lists of games for Kodi users.

This is a key component of this whole solution (IMO), and we need user-friendly options of displaying games to our liking. Personally, I think OpenEmu has it figured out:
http://openemu.org/

The list of game 'systems' on the left, with Favorites, Most Played, Recently Added, etc as separate categories, are all very useful things to have when playing emulated/classic games. One of the coolest things about the OpenEmu interface is the fact that they let you toggle between 3 different types of views for games:

1. Thumbnail view
   
2. List view
   
3. 'Flip' thumbnail view (hybrid)
   

I've used things like Advanced Launcher before, and it's not very satisfying jumping through multiple 'normal' Kodi-style menus to get to a game system, only to be presented with another boring list of game titles (where selecting a game will show you the cover). I think a thumbnail view, being the default, would make the whole process of selecting games to play much more enjoyable.

What are everyone's thoughts on this?

[RockerC]

Most of what you hightlight and much more could be achieved by copying the existing video and music sections in Kodi into a new games section.

However I think that much of all this will very much be dependent on the work for designing a new database structure here:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=200911

Once a such new database structure exist that support games then GUI design will solve itself by copying the video and music sections in Kodi.


Other then that I suggest that you first checkout these three other threads for tips and links to previous threads discussion this:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=220802
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=221599
http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=126210

Again, looks like many good ideas specifically related to games library could probably be extracted from this forth thread:

http://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=40715

Kodi v15 is now in general consistent between the video and music sections and I see no reason why a game section would behave differently.