Nightwhip

A hunter in dark red with an orange shoulder guard and tall boots walks a castle corridor of coursed stone, and the whole deck is one continuous scene sliding past. Tall arched windows open onto the night, some of them with the moon in; torches gutter in their brackets on their own timing; hearts float over the flagstones. The whip cracks out and a skeleton comes apart where it lands, and bats drop out of the dark and get taken the same way.

The hunter is played through the level rather than animated: the swings are decided by where the skeletons are and the jumps by where the flagstones end. It shares its engine with Pipe Runner, and the two differ in a single line — this one answers an enemy with the whip instead of a boot.

Every other animated Stream Deck screensaver on the market is a video loop: somebody animated it once, exported it, and it plays out identically forever because there was never anything underneath. This one is a simulation that was played through and recorded frame by frame, which is why the good moments happen at different places each time it is built rather than at the same place every loop.

WHAT YOU GET. Three files, one for each deck: the MK.2 and the original 15-key at 480x272, the XL at 1024x600 and the Stream Deck + at 800x480. Use the one that matches your deck. An illustrated HTML guide and a plain README come with them, and the guide calls out the one mistake everybody makes once — the app has a "Set Image" button right next to "Set Animation", and the first one gives you a frozen frame.

HONEST LIMITS. This is an animated GIF, so it needs the Stream Deck app version 6.6 or newer. The Stream Deck MINI cannot display animations at all — that is a limitation of the hardware, not of this file, and it is better said here than discovered afterwards. Nothing here is affiliated with, licensed by or endorsed by Elgato or any game publisher; the artwork is original and drawn in code.

[356 words — Etsy has no minimum, but under 300 reads as thin]

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