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🕸💡📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Mar 26, 2021 09:34 PM UTC:

I have begun adding the ability to create themes for games. A theme is a collection of settings that can be chosen together for the purpose of changing the appearance of a game. This makes changing the appearance of a game quicker and easier than doing it one setting at a time. When themes are available for a game, they will appear in a drop down select list just above where you can change individual settings. Any member may create and save a theme by going to the Customize section of the preset. Customize it how you want, enter a theme name, and click Save Theme. It will then be available for that game.

So far, I have made themes only for Shogi. I plan to do some Chess themes later and set things up for presets that use the same equipment as Chess to use the same themes. I also plan to provide the option for games to use the themes for another game instead of having its own. This will come in handy when different games use the same board and pieces and so can share the same themes. And I plan to set things up so that players can create themes without leaving their games. But I've done enough work on it for today, and what I've done today seems to be working.