The dark theme mirrors both typical gamer style choices and the increasingly common “dark modes” offered by apps and websites for easier viewing late at night. The artists have previously won awards for their work on the game Gris. The audio component of which, as well as a number of other interaction sounds within GX, were created in conjunction with sound designer Rubén Rincón and the band Berlinis. Kocemba was happy to announce that Opera GX is the first browser to enjoy a fully animated boot logo too. There’s an animated startup logo with a little auditory note like the logos before a game loads.
The browser is immediately visually distinct from its contemporaries with a murky and brooding color palette that gives it the look and feel of gaming keyboards, mice, and laptops, which are far more dark and colorful than the beige computers of decades past. What began as a joke project for that subset of the Opera team to enjoy among themselves became something far more real before long, and today, we have Opera GX to show for it. That’s where the gamers within Opera’s developer team came up with the idea of a browser for gamers. If you want a hammer, it has to be a hammer and not also a screwdriver.” “If something is good for everybody, then sometimes you say it is good for nobody. They should be as accessible, as fast, as beautiful, for anybody,” Opera’s product manager, Maciej Kocemba told Digital Trends. “All browsers at the moment are meant to be general purpose tools.
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