Ice Rain

The cold, quick one. Cyan marks fall roughly twice as fast as the green rain on short trails that snap out behind them, and the characters change rapidly as they go. Only some columns run at any moment, so there is a lot of black on the deck and the movement reads as sharp and sparse rather than as a curtain.

Drawn on the same twelve-level phosphor as the rest of the range, with the leading mark burning white, a scanline through every other row, and a soft dimming into the corners like the glass of a real tube.

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.

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

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