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Six ready-to-steal tournament timer layouts for GameNight

The GameNight tournament timer got a full layout editor last week. Here are six ready-made themes built with it, screenshots and all, with the layout files free to grab at the bottom of each section.

Quick primer if you haven't touched the new timer yet. A layout isn't just a skin, it's the whole board: what's on it, where it sits, what screen takes over during breaks, and what the phones see when someone scans the QR code off the TV. Each file below carries its own artwork and sounds inside it, so importing one is the entire setup. Open Timer Layouts in GameNight, hit Import, pick the file, done.

For each layout you get the full tour: the main screen and the break screen, each shown twice, once as the TV sees it and once as a phone sees it. That's not four designs, it's one layout deciding what to show based on the game state and what kind of screen is looking at it. Neatest trick in the whole feature.

Neon Nights

Main screen, TV and phone:

Neon Nights main screen on a TV

Neon Nights main screen on a phone

Break screen, same pair:

Neon Nights break screen on a TV

Neon Nights break screen on a phone

Vegas at 2am. Cyan clock in a glowing frame, magenta blinds panel, everything floating on near-black purple, and the break screen tells everyone to TAKE FIVE. This is also the loudest of the six by a mile: it plays a horn and literally announces the new blinds out loud at every level, ticks and flashes through the last minute, and hits a casino fanfare when break starts. If your bar is already noisy, this one can shout over it.

Download Neon Nights (7 KB)

Dusty Trail Saloon

Main screen, TV and phone:

Dusty Trail Saloon main screen on a TV

Dusty Trail Saloon main screen on a phone

Break screen, same pair:

Dusty Trail Saloon break screen on a TV

Dusty Trail Saloon break screen on a phone

Wood planks, cream lettering, gold double borders. The blinds are THE STAKES, the players left are outlaws still standing, and the payouts are BOUNTIES, because once you commit to a theme you commit. The break screen calls LAST CALL AT THE BAR, which in an actual bar is just useful information. Sound-wise it's polite, a chime on level changes and a soft one at break.

Download Dusty Trail Saloon (140 KB)

Zen Minimal

Main screen, TV and phone:

Zen Minimal main screen on a TV

Zen Minimal main screen on a phone

Break screen, same pair:

Zen Minimal break screen on a TV

Zen Minimal break screen on a phone

The opposite of everything above. Black screen, big clock, the blinds, one small line of level and player count. The break screen is the word "break" in lowercase gray and nothing else. No QR, no panels, no sounds, no nothing. Made for rooms where a flashing casino screen would feel wrong. Two kilobytes. The whole thing is two kilobytes.

Download Zen Minimal (2 KB)

Emerald High Roller

Main screen, TV and phone:

Emerald High Roller main screen on a TV

Emerald High Roller main screen on a phone

Break screen, same pair:

Emerald High Roller break screen on a TV

Emerald High Roller break screen on a phone

Deep green felt, thin gold rules, and the prize pool gets equal billing with the blinds, which tells you who this one is for. The break screen says INTERMISSION like it's the opera, and keeps a QR code up so latecomers can join the watch party mid-break. Quiet triggers: a chime each level, and one single fanfare when the table gets down to its last nine.

Download Emerald High Roller (28 KB)

Pixel Arcade

Main screen, TV and phone:

Pixel Arcade main screen on a TV

Pixel Arcade main screen on a phone

Break screen, same pair:

Pixel Arcade break screen on a TV

Pixel Arcade break screen on a phone

Hard-edged 8-bit blocks in colors that should not work together and somehow do. LVL and POT cartridges across the top, a green CRT clock, payouts listed as HI-SCORES, and the break screen just says INSERT COIN. The paused clock literally says PAUSED like the game froze. Countdown sound and a screen flash in the last minute, and it says "game over" out loud when someone wins.

Download Pixel Arcade (5 KB)

Snowman Poker League at Griff's

Main screen and break screen on the TV:

Snowman Poker League main screen on a TV

Snowman Poker League break screen on a TV

This one has a third screen the others don't: a dedicated phone screen. Anyone who scans the QR gets this stripped-down view instead of a squeezed copy of the TV, and during breaks it flips its own break banner up top. During play, then on break:

Snowman Poker League phone screen during play

Snowman Poker League phone screen during a break

And this one's different in another way: it's a real skin for a real league that plays at a real pub, included as the "here's what your bar could look like" example. Glossy plates with the labels painted right into the artwork, the pub's actual wall mural on the break screen, neon clovers down the wall edges, and the league's snowman mascot parked on the points bar. It's a free league that plays for points, so the bottom bar tracks points instead of cash. Heaviest file of the six because all that artwork rides along inside it.

Download Snowman Poker League (916 KB)


All six import into any GameNight install running v0.2089 or newer. They land in your own library, so hack away at them in the editor: recolor, reword, swap the artwork, steal one screen out of one and bolt it onto another. If you build something good out of these, post it in the comments.

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