Windows Phone 8.1 addresses that with customized
Start background wallpapers, with the Live Tiles going translucent to show a preset or custom wallpaper.
Not exact matches
- character creation lets you choose skin color, face, eye color and haircut - later in the game you can get glasses, pants, shoes and other stuff -
start off by meeting Tom Nook and his posse of Happy Home employees - this includes Lyle the Otter and Digby the Dog, who give advice and help to keep the game moving forward - Lottie the Otter is Lyle's niece and handles the front desk in the game - she welcomes you every time you boot up the game and tells you what to do next - gameplay
starts off with placing furniture, but quickly evolves into something more - place a house on the world map and cycle through seasons to see what you like - house can modified with different roofs, doors, colors and more - every animal unlocks new furniture for you to use - completing a lot of requests is vital to getting a lot of content - characters will react to everything that you place and remove in the house - three pieces of furniture must be in or outside of the house and these need to implemented into the final design - if you don't follow this rule, your animal customer will not approve - add
wallpaper, carpets, lamps, signs, music covers, paintings and much more - by completing special objectives in the office, which you pay for with Play Coins, you can even expand the feature set - set
background sounds, choose curtains, change up furniture, display fossils and get a bigger variety of fish and paintings.
You can't get rid of the
Start screen (though you can bypass it, as we mentioned in the previous lesson), but you can customize it in virtually unlimited ways, especially if you make your
background transparent so the desktop
wallpaper can be seen underneath.
In Windows 8.1, Microsoft has introduced this customization feature that will allow users to easily set so that their desktop
wallpaper is automatically set as their
start screen
background too.
There was always this wish among Windows 8 users to be able to set their desktop
wallpapers as the
background for their
start screen too.
There's a thread in the Windows Phone 8.1 forums dedicated just to covering
wallpapers and images that look great as
Start backgrounds.
You can now set a
Start screen
wallpaper, with the Live Tiles turning translucent and the
background image showing through.
Under settings the first option pop's is the «
Start + Theme», which now allows adding of
background photos as
wallpaper on the home screen.
While previously, the only «
wallpaper» image you could have was on your lock screen, Windows Phone 8.1 has introduced the ability to set an image as
Start screen
background.
Sure, you have a wider range of accent colors and
wallpaper options now — it's nice to be able to choose whether your
background image is painted directly on the tiles or draped behind them — and little things like animations have been tweaked, but by and large this is the same old
Start screen, with options galore for minimalists and info - hounds alike.