[Tutorial] How to Change the Simulator Color

[Brohann]

Did you ever want to change the color of the Simulator for your game? Tired of that annoying turquoise?

Step 1
convert your code to javascript if you have not already. only do this if your game in finished or else it might not convert back to blocks if you have a big game

Step 2
open the explorer

Step 3
click on pxt.json

Step 4
click “edit settings as text”
WARNING! EDITING PXT.JSON IS DANGEROUS. MAKE SURE TO BACK UP YOUR PROJECT FIRST

Step 5
change your name and description if you want to

Step 6
add a comma after the preferred editor line

Step 7
add a “theme” line as shown below

Step 8
go back to javascript/blocks

TADA!!

here is a list of themes that work:

• purple
• brown
• green
• red
• blue
• bubblegum

@jwunderl can you post the full list or did I get them all?

also sorry if this post is bad quality it was kinda rushed

[randomuser]

Hah! That’s awesome! Does it work in the shared link?

[Luke]

Ohh nice! (brown is probably my favourite)

[Brohann]

oh yeah I forgot “zune” is also a theme

[jwunderl]

currently should be

• zune
• p1, red
• p2, blue
• p3, orange
• p4, green
• green
• brown
• bubblegum
• purple
• microcode
• junior

few of them hide some buttons or move stuff around

but, uh, be free:

    "theme": {
        "skin": "zune",
        "background-color": "#123456",
        "button-stroke": "#654321",
        "text-color": "#321456",
        "button-fill": "#deadea",
        "dpad-fill": "#abcdef"
    }

blep

maybe next time we have a team hackathon i’ll see if I can’t add a button like the color palette one with a quick editor to make themes, been working on some other stuff lately so haven’t had time – I made most of these as part of a very quick 2 day total feature for that zune skin, so not much has been invested in this feature beyond that

[Brohann]

@randomuser

Hah! That’s awesome! Does it work in the shared link?

yes

bubblegum

[jwunderl]

and i should also merge this one i forgot about, since you made a joke about it in twitch chat

[Luke]

Pastel theme
@jwunderl is there a way to change the dpad button outline colour? (currently stuck at grey) I don’t really mind it it’s just odd that everything but that can be customised but that

[jwunderl]

Oh that one might have been neglected? Will double check

[randomuser]

Awesome, extra customization for games!!

[Mr.Someone]

Could someone help explain how to change the color for a “multiplayer” game?

[Sonicblaston]

It would be great if you could color each button individually. And also color the screen edge individually

[Luke]

Being able to edit the background colour would be cool as well

[randomuser]

Wow, that’s specific! Why?

[Sonicblaston]

Because I wanna have this for my Mario game!

[robotosaurus]

Epic.

[urassari]

can you change the places of the buttons or delete some of them? (like the junior and zune theme)

[Rune]

Whoooa this is really cool! I’ll have to experiment with this later.

[CollapsedAxolotl]

IDK whether it’s just my computer or something, but all it really does for me is delete the project and change its name to this. Is there a way to fix this?

[Brohann]

I’m not quite sure what you mean, can you explain in more detail? It would also help if you provide your pxt.json before your project got deleted