Xbox UI Portfolio Site

(gabrielcabrera.co)

126 points by valgaze12 hours ago

14 comments

ucyo5 hours ago
Fun fact: On the lower right corner there is the Xbox logo emitting waves to an imaginary surface below. The pattern is a watermark for the serial number of the device to be identified in case of leaked footage. Only during development of Xbox.
- jagged-chisel4 hours ago
  And what does the pattern on this site decode to? Maybe some nifty easter egg?
  - xattt3 hours ago
    It can probably be decoded with some Dungeons and Dragons-level incantation of ffmpeg.
    - Aurornis1 hour ago
      You don’t need to do anything complicated. Take a couple screenshots and crop to a slice where the rings are expanding horizontally. There is your barcode.
    - MisterTea2 hours ago
      It just looks like a bar code that is probably easily extracted with some machine vision.
personality11 hour ago
Last week I was thinking exactly about how I missed the old xbox interface. "Would be cool" I thought, to build a modern web UI nowadays.Now, I see this :)
kilpikaarna5 hours ago
Anyone know what the music visualizer is?It's certainly not the real one[0], but looks a lot like the Winamp AVS/MilkDrop stuff. My Inspect Element -fu was however insufficient for getting a closer look.[0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_(music_visualization)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon_(music_visualization)</a>
- m1325 hours ago
 Judging from the code, it's most likely Butterchurn or some fork.<a href="https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/jberg/butterchurn</a>
- Triphibian3 hours ago
 Didn't Jeff Minter do the Xbox visualizer?
sylens2 hours ago
Was really hoping this was going to be the Blades interface
butlike1 hour ago
It's cool, but I don't really see a portfolio on the portfolio site.
- burkaman1 hour ago
  You have to click Projects in the top left.
johanvts6 hours ago
Is there any chance the music section is legal? I would love to be able to put songs on my own pages, but I assumed it would be a legal issue? Is there a way to license songs at a reasonable price.
- jagged-chisel4 hours ago
 There's definitely a chance. Start with something like this: <a href="https://pixabay.com/music/" rel="nofollow">https://pixabay.com/music/</a>
 - johanvts4 hours ago
 Thanks, but that’s royalty free music which is not an issue.
 - jagged-chisel3 hours ago
 Your original question sounded like you were unaware of how licensing music works. Royalty-free is a good place to start. If you want anything else, you can still do it legally, you just have to license the music for your use case. Various artists (and labels) provide various licensing terms. If you know someone, they might let you do it free.If you're specific question was meant to be "did this person license this music legally for his site?" - yes, there's a chance he did. There's a chance he didn't. You'd have to ask him. Even if he did, that doesn't give anyone else rights to use those songs on their site.
 - DANmode34 minutes ago
 Your original reply sounds like you didn’t open the music list on TFA,which has three somewhat popular songs,making royalty-free music emphatically not the topic.
- khat3 hours ago
 If he has the license then yea it's legal. Chances are if he's posted it publicly he has the rights. Also for a low level personal website that's not going to get a lot of traffic and only hosting 3 songs they probably gave him a license for free.
rand99581 hour ago
Wish you would've implemented the gamepad api
lostmsu28 minutes ago
In FF on Linux using mouse scroll between tiles is overclocked.
DaanDL4 hours ago
Bonus points for including Lcd Soundsystem
designerarvid5 hours ago
Very nice. Still I was hoping for the original XBox UI.
Xarovin6 hours ago
Ha that's great. I enjoyed the old Youtube.
sjdonado7 hours ago
Sick
nnevatie6 hours ago
Introduces a lot of lag on the mouse pointer.
written-beyond9 hours ago
Man you really nostalgia pilled me. It's lovely and a work of art.What's the deal with the audio delay showing up for button taps until the icons have loaded?
- hereonout29 hours ago
 Others getting nostalgia over the Xbox 360 reminds me how old I am!
 - lloeki5 hours ago
 Now for an additional kickback: nostalgia induced here is about the NXE, but it famously displaced the original Blades dashboard.
 - nozzlegear2 hours ago
 I loved the Blades dashboard. Something about idly pressing the shoulder buttons to flip through the blades while talking to my friend with that goofy wireless "Xbox communicator" on my ear.
 - butlike1 hour ago
 Blades was better than the redesign
 - ErneX6 hours ago
 Best Xbox console. It had pretty good games. Sad they were unable to keep that momentum going and are basically nope’ing from the console business altogether now.
 - butlike1 hour ago
 Late night uno sessions were a lot of fun. Not everyone had a camera so voice chat was "off the chain" as they used to say
 - pjmlp8 hours ago
 I just bought this the other day, <a href="https://www.retro-gamer.de/shop/heft/retro-gamer-2-26-einzelheft/" rel="nofollow">https://www.retro-gamer.de/shop/heft/retro-gamer-2-26-einzel...</a>The Xbox 360 is now considered a retro gaming device, that was such a reminder how old I am now, to note my first home computer was a Timex 2068.
 - Jhsto8 hours ago
 I was able pull together a Halo 3 LAN party last year, although the "consoles" were Linux PCs and the game was the MCC edition (60fps instead 30). Split-screen was resurrected via mods. I bought some Microsoft gamepad receiver to bring Xbox 360 original controllers under Linux. Some people insisted they get to play on the original gamepad (otherwise it was a mixed bag of PlayStation and newer Xbox/PC controllers). I also realized that Halo 3 itself would have been old enough to drink with us!
 - technothrasher6 hours ago
 > my first home computer was a Timex 2068.I don't know if the Altair 8800 would count as my first home computer, as I was too young to really understand what it was and mostly just liked to play with the paper tape feed on the Teletype attached to it. By the time we got the PET 2001, I was old enough to actually use it as intended.
 - andrepd6 hours ago
 The Xbox 360 is about as old now as the NES was when the Xbox 360 came out.
 - pjmlp5 hours ago
 Yeah, and that is why some of us feel rather old. :)I still remember when all that Nintendo had were Game & Watch handhelds, before NES came to be.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_%26_Watch_games" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_%26_Watch_games</a>
 - keyle8 hours ago
 I still have it in a box with all its gamesI still love its controller design.