Pixel Arcade

A FlatBB theme built like an arcade cabinet: a pixel level for a header, a HUD strip of site stats,
chunky two-pixel frames, loot sprites as list marks and an optional CRT scanline overlay.
Desktop is a three-column cabinet with the poster's player card beside every post; phones get a
single column with a compact author strip and a bottom tab bar.

Light mode is a pale blue "daylight board", dark mode is the night version of the same cabinet.
Both are made of FlatBB tokens, so nothing here hard-wires a colour.

Look

• Header — a hand-assembled pixel level (sky, castle, chests, coins, gems, tilled ground) with
  the site's own stats in a HUD bar under it: topics, replies, members, online.
• Post — desktop shows a player card: framed avatar, name, group pills and a Tham gia / Bài viết /
  Số điểm read-out, with the floor chip (TOP, #2, #3) pinned to the body. On phones the same author
  collapses into one short strip above the text so the post keeps its full width.
• Lists — the topic rows carry the author's avatar instead of a category mark; every card head
  gets a pixel sprite; the left rail is a stack of equal-height boxes with two-line titles.
• Type — Chakra Petch, self-hosted in assets/fonts/ with the Vietnamese subset, at 400 / 600 / 700.
  No external font request, no unreadable pixel face in body text.
• Footer — a strip of pixel ground under the footer, with legible text in both modes.
• Admin — untouched: every rule is scoped body:not(.page-admin).

Settings

Admin → Appearance → Themes → Customize:

Files

• assets/banner.png — the pixel level used as the header.
• assets/tile-block.png, assets/tile-checker.png — ground and background tiles.
• assets/icons/*.png — 22 loot sprites used as list marks, card-head icons and tab-bar art.
• assets/fonts/ — Chakra Petch woff2 subsets (latin, latin-ext, vietnamese at 400/600/700).
• assets/theme.css — component styles; every colour comes from the tokens in plugin.php.
• views/layout.php, views/topic_rows.php, views/post.php — stamped copies of the core templates.
• lang/vi.php — Vietnamese labels for the tab bar and the theme name.

The theme is a plugin with 'type' => 'theme': no routes, no tables, no admin pages, no queries.
Its stylesheet loads after app.css and after every plugin stylesheet, so plugin surfaces
(store avatars, red packets, prefixes, the support portal) are restyled rather than replaced.

Install

php flatbb plugin:sync        # or "Scan plugins folder" in Admin → Appearance → Themes

Then Preview the theme and Activate when it looks right. php flatbb theme:check pixel_arcade
reports whether any stamped template drifted from the core version it was copied from.

Listed on the DDVN Market only (2000 points) — not published to www.flatbb.com.

Credits

Loot sprites in assets/icons/ are from the Free Icon Pack v3.1 (Basic) by gvesster.
The banner, tiles and HUD art are assembled from the same pack. Licence: commercial use allowed,
the pack itself may not be resold or repackaged.