Winterscape

Winterscape is a Roku channel that turns your TV into an interactive winter wonderland. The core loop runs a timed slideshow that fades between images, each rendered at full screen (1920×1080). Falling snow particles are rendered as scaled billboards, continuously created and animated frame-by-frame, layered over the background. The app detects available screen resolutions at startup and scales appropriately.

The settings menu uses a glassmorphic UI design built from rectangles and labels in the SceneGraph XML, with a highlighted selection bar that moves as you navigate up/down through six options: slide interval (10s to 1h), slideshow lock, music track selector, snow amount (10–500 particles), and snow size (5 tiers). An image gallery view—added later—lets you browse all images in a 3×2 grid, toggle each on/off for slideshow rotation, or instantly set any as the background.

Audio is handled by a remote-hosted Audio node that plays ambient winter music from external URLs with fallback retry logic. Remote image loading is also handled gracefully with loadStatus observation. All input is routed through a single onKeyEvent handler that branches on whether the gallery, settings menu, or slideshow view is active, giving the remote full control over every aspect.