– Added LineHold
– Lots of work on RSS feed importer scheduling for patch notes feed
– Moved footer content out of the ranking table and into some divs, just didn’t make sense to have it in there resizing with the other content
– Tried out a few different configurations for column order and asked chat/reddit for feedback

– Working hard on aggregated patch notes RSS feed
– Set a wider array of games to enabled for the aggregated feed
– Added Crab Champions, Devil Slayer – Rakasi, Ginga Force, Natsuki Chronicles
– Added Holiday Event tags to Westale: Peelgrimage, Devil Slayer – Rakasi
– RSS import now working! It scanns all the videogames in the database, pulls out their feed links (generated from the steam ID, with that actually being done in the spreadsheet in case people want it), then downloads the latest posts from each game’s update feed. It looks like they’re correctly coming in with the styled content, permalink, author, original post date, and featured image all working. Then I tag it with the videogame ID and name from the database (as a category so we can see all the updates for a game easily). This is gonna save me so much time checking different feeds for updates! And other people can sub to this overall feed too.
– Patch notes import progress. Checked off: Confirm Author Import, Confirm thumbnail image. Clean up cache at end of import, Implement number_of_posts_to_import, Table- Consistent sorting (The topmost item in the table is the next item that will be imported. The bottommost in the table should be the post imported most recently)
, Import All button, Import: Update Last Post date properly in the table, Stop Import Button
– Implemented front end views, started with feed updates on updates archive page. Checked: Add feed updates to updates archive, Modify loop to display both updates and patch feed post types, Create a wrapper for the posts from each day, and add a header inside the wrapper that says 
“mm/dd/yyyy Imported patch notes”. If update display as normal, Change header to have date in 12/31/2023 format. If patch feed note, display just Category >> Title, Add pagination for updates

– Deathtide Survivors renamed to just Deathtide (Also applied Early Access tag)
– Added Hero of Fate, Infinity Trials, Operation STEEL, The Void Rains Upon Her Heart, Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers, Death Ray Manta SE, Disc Room, Frantic Dimension, Galacide, Skelly Selest, Swarmlake, XenoRaptor
– Kongooie linked on discord a list of bullet heaven games on glitchwave.com (https://glitchwave.com/games/genre/bullet-heaven/). Found and added Watercolor Hell (totally Free!) from that list
– Added to possible add later list: Ginga Force, Natsuki Chronciles (as shmups with purchasable upgrades), Laboratory X-29, Seth
– Added Enemy Hell tag, why not. Added Story Rich, LGBTQ, Female Protagonist via dev surveys
– Added to definitions: Tags, Content Rich
– Added to FAQ: “Why don’t you automatically import information from Steam? Why don’t you import Tags?”
– This catches me up with all the update notes I had for the spreadsheet while I’d paused to work on the website version. I still have 5 or 6 dev surveys for games to get in to be fully ‘caught up’. The website isn’t near done, though, especially with regards to optimization and responsive design tweaks. If anyone wants to help, say hi in the discord!
– Currently at 910+ similar-ish games in the database!
– Working hard on setting up the stream for patch notes. Each game has an RSS feed as I think I mentioned earlier. Now I’ve got a table of RSS feed links ready to go in the backend, and I’m working on setting up a system to automatically import it all into one feed we can browse, while also keeping it linked to game IDs so we can see it in the expandable area.

– Merry Xmas! Made a thread on reddit to gather holiday related game updates: https://www.reddit.com/r/survivorslikes/comments/18qnvg3/what_survivorslikes_and_other_rogueish_games_have/
– Holiday game updates: Sky Rogue, Vampire Survivors, Heretic’s Fork, Swarmcade, Xmas Apocalypse (the whole damn game!)
– Added Aesthetic/Settings tags to Elemental Survivors, Keeper’s Toll, Chess Survivors, Sea of Survivors, Spellbook Demonslayers, Bio Prototype, Time Wasters, Return to Abyss, Nomad Survival, Time Survivors, Yet Another Zombie Survivors, Scarlet Tower, Bing in Wonderland, Greedland, Bounty of One, Goobies, Army of Ruin, Shape Shifter: Formations, Soulstone Survivors, Forest Fire, Disfigure, Star Survivor, 20m To Dawn, Brotato, God of Weapons, Heretic’s Fork, Binding of Isaac, Reality Break, Spirit Hunters, Risk of Rain 2, Voidigo, Hades, Legend of Feather, Assault Android Cactus, PhaigeX: Hyperspace Survivors, Risk of Rain, Dead Cells, Whisker Squadron: Survivor, Crypt of the Necrodancer, The Riftbreaker, Loop Hero, Path of Exile, Returnal, Rogue Legacy, Cult of the Lamb, City of Beats, Enter the Gungeon, Asterogues, Ecstatic, Jetboard Joust, Peglin, Osmos, Dwarf Fortress, Rogue, Hero Siege, Beat Hazard 3, Grim Horde, Elden Ring, Godstrike, COD2, Bowerwhelm, GROSS, IDIOTIC, Beach Invasion 1944, Blooddome Classic, Breakout Survivors, GunDeck[100]
– Added CHUTNEY: Space Survivor to Released (Totally Free)
– Added Buns: Bunny Survivor, Centipede Gun, moved Just King, Deleted, Kitty Survivors to Released
– Added Etaine: Magic Survivor to Released (Early Access)
– Added HackeRPG to upcoming (with demo)
– Updated Nova Drift review score based on updates, this game rules. Bumped it up on the ranking due to new scores.
– Added To Do (possible later additions of related games): Tiny Breakers Camp, Metavoidal, Treasure Hunter, Danmaku Unlimted 2, Zangeki Warp, Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers, Drainus
– Discord: Reorganized some rooms, started adding announcement feeds for games to the patch notes channel, renamed to patch-notes-feed
– Added announcements feed to #patch-notes-feed: Survivor Mercs, Spellbook Demonslayers, Saucers, Bounty of One, Don’t Die Collect Loot, Core Devourer, Swordship, Jetboard Joust, Heretic’s Fork, Arcadium, Void Scrappers, Bore Blasters, Yet Another Zombie Survivors, God of Weapons, Beautiful/Sexy Mystic Survivors. That’s the max for now, I’ll have to figure out some sort of bot or other solution to pull in anymore than the default feed webhook max.
– Backed up the website database in advance of some clean up
– Added RSS link generated from steam ID vg_rss_link, vg_rss_enabled to control if it shows on the site (like if it’s for a dissimilar game or they’re spammy about it we won’t show updates)
– Added to defined terms (mostly aesthetic/setting tag explanations): Wuxia & Xianxia, Vector Inspired Art, Realistic Graphics, Art, Arty, Vivid, Neon, Cartoon, Anime, Cell Shaded

– Added Aesthetic and Setting/Story tags to spreadsheet so you can filter by pixel art, anime style, fantasy, sci-fi, etc.
– Started adding Aesthetic and Setting/Story tags to games
– Added Aesthetic/Setting tags to: Vampire Survivors, Halls of Torment, Holocure, Rogue Genesia, Gunlocked, Boneraiser Minions, Void Scrappers
– Added sprites to Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, Artifact Seeker
– Added Raptor: Call of the Shadows to Ranking in Progress (as a historical PC game to consider, it’s got stuff like gathering resource to spend between repeatable stages) and started scoring it / adding notes
– Noted DLC available on Heretic’s Fork
– Adjusted comparison scale scores for Geometry Arena 2
– Tiny Survivors moved to released (totally free!). 100% positive steam reviews so far!
– Added Watcher Of The Abyss, Blood, Fuel, Ammo & Speed to upcoming with demo
– Added DunJumb, MONSTER GRINDER ULTRA to upcoming without demo
– Added to “To do” page possible later database additions: Neon River, GTH 3033 – Grand Theft Hunter 3033, Superior: Vengeance
– Noted Shadowkin: Dominion of Darkness on the database entry for the main game (I think this will be a free prologue kind of thing)
– Some of the updates in this list from u/TyrianMollusk’s latest Rogueish release list: https://www.reddit.com/r/rogueish/comments/18q3fm0/steam_roguelite_release_list_2023_dec_25_dec_31/, others from my winter sale purchases or steam queue
– Added colored backgrounds to filter sections in the search and filter bar
– Added single update php template, mostly so there’s nothing broken accessible through the sitemap
– Deleted old key and terms website page since it’s using the ‘terms’ archive now
– Added Danmaku, Manic Shooter to defined terms
– Added pages and redirects in order to get the following into the ‘page’ section of the sitemap: Key & Terms, Homepage ~ Ranking Table, Update History, Website Sitemap, Scorecard Form, Review Form, Google Spreadsheet, r/Survivorslikes Subreddit, Survivorslikes Discord, To key and terms archive (terms): /key/, /key-definitions/, /key-and-term-definitions/, /definitions/
– Moved the search query field to be on the bottom row in the search filter dropdown
– Moved Reset button out of the first row and to the top of the search/filter bar
– Added subtitle description to the search/filter dropdown
– Styling fixes for width/etc of fields on search/filter dropdown
– Added new taxonomy (aesthetic, setting) to post types, import, and search/filter dropdown
– Switched taxonomy slug format from underscore to dashes, so ‘genre_tags’ in the spreadsheet is no longer ‘genre_tags’ in the url, it’s now ‘genre-tags’, matching other user facing formatting like for game-names. Will require some finagling to make sure this is updated everywhere, populated correctly, and not breaking the displays.
– Fixed display in the expandable areas for these taxonomies: average_run_time, sort_section, similarity_guess, release_status, genre_tags, control_modes. platform_compatibility. features_and_extras, developer_or_publisher, game_mode_tags
– Added new taxonomies to the expandable area
– Also put the genre/control style tags in the tag cloud area (they’re already in the table line but it seems good to have them here too for ability to check them over easily
– Adjusted font sizes in the spreadsheet meta section to make it easier to see differences in the section and ID number

– Started notes on Gunfire Reborn (moved to Ranking in Progress section), added sprites to review section
– Added tags to several first person shooter games to aid in finding FPS rogue-lites in our database. There are a bunch not in here that should be, probably, like Vermintide, L4D etc. They’re on the to-do list for now.
– Added to FAQ (html ver, I’m no longer going to be updating the spreadsheet version): Why isn’t the steam review count in “popularity” accurate?, Why are sprites from my game in another game? / What is this sprite nonsense running all over the explainer pages?, How is the data organized? What’s the difference between the main, archive and search views?
– Added italic and bold formatting (italic and bold tags) to game blurb notes to match the spreadsheet
– Changed website template and scripting so the ID is applied to the tbody group (holding both table line row and expandable row) in order to more easily seperate the data from the basic table position (ideally so optimization will allow for filling and removing the data as you scroll so the browser doesn’t crash)
– Created a thread in the discord to work on optimizing with a couple folks
– Finished wrapping existing scoring guide written content in the proper html for the website
– More styling for the scoring guide. I think pretty much everything but the conditional coloring is completed.
– Added simple conditional coloring php, implemented coloring on the number values in the scoring guide.
– Scoring guide “done!” (at least it’s as functional as it was in the spreadsheet!)
– Created single videogame page views
– Wrote script to automatically expand the single videogame on landing
– Disabled compact toggling on single game view
– Created breadcrumbs and explanation text for single game view below the main content
– Made it so RSS feed is of the updates and not anything else
– Set up sitemap generation for SEO, might as well. Not really chasing search traffic or getting into any ‘seo tricks’, but someone might use google to search through the site so I should be friendly and keep meta tags good too
– Set up redirects so it does its best to bring you to the right game if you’re missing a word or something but typing right in the url
– Added written out permalink and contextual links to the game release info container in the expandables, to make it a little easier for people to find the link they’re looking for.