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A beautifull and very user friendly app to launch all your installed games from any thirdparty launcher (Steam, GOG Galaxy, ...) with your gamepad, keyboard or mouse.

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Photon Game Launcher

Photon Game Launcher (big picture mode)

A beautifull and very user friendly app to launch all your installed games from any thirdparty launcher (Steam, GOG Galaxy, ...) with your gamepad, keyboard or mouse.

This app aimed to solve 2 mains issues :

  • Unified games into one interface instead of multiple launchers
  • Launch games without mouse or keyboard for cloud computing (like https://shadow.tech), media server connected to TV or Windows handled gaming console.

Works only on MS Windows (no MAC OS, Linux or Android support). It's a standalone app who run in fullscreen.

Photon Game Launcher

Features

A simple app yes, but with powerfull features :

  • Auto scan games in your computer and automatically fetch images
  • Add manually any app. Supported extension : .exe, .lnk and .url.
  • Change image of any games/app manually
  • Add to favourite or hide an app
  • Switch windows (Alt+tab) with your gamepad (when you have no keyboard)
  • Auto-launch at Windows startup
  • English and French language support
  • Support any screen ratio and pixel density (from mobile portrait, ultra-wide, 4K TV, ...)

Auto scan process

For auto scan process, following platforms are currently supported :

  • Amazon Games;
  • Battle.net;
  • Big Fish Games;
  • EA [formerly Origin];
  • Epic Games Launcher;
  • Game Jolt Client;
  • GOG Galaxy;
  • Humble App;
  • Indiegala Client;
  • itch;
  • Legacy Games;
  • Oculus;
  • Paradox Launcher;
  • Plarium Play;
  • Riot Client;
  • Rockstar Games Launcher;
  • Steam;
  • Ubisoft Connect [formerly Uplay];
  • Wargaming.net Game Center.

The scanning process use this library : https://github.com/Solaire/GLC

Development

Install dependencies with :

yarn

Start dev app with :

yarn start

Build installer & executable :

yarn make

Some doc can be found in the /docs folder

Credits

Some credits can be found within the app but, particular thanks to :

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A beautifull and very user friendly app to launch all your installed games from any thirdparty launcher (Steam, GOG Galaxy, ...) with your gamepad, keyboard or mouse.

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