Latest Updates

Here are the latest update notes imported from the spreadsheet.

12/14/2023 Imported patch notes

12/14/2023 Update

– Needed to make sure find header height doesn’t fire and crash on single pages, so ended up refactoring all the javascript
– Split into three scripts, Fun parade (sprite stuff), table scripts, all Page Scripts
– That made it easy to make sure table scripts don’t load on other pages. Checked through and got all the dependencies, split on load event listeners into two, should be fine
– Seems to have solved some other note I had about the randomized header sprite on single page in the process, works now
– Added single page title to sticky header on single pages
– Finished footer so that checks off this next one: Populated all partial template areas (footer, sidebar, documentation/options menu, search bar.)
– Moved pagination to its own template file
– ‘Finished’ Heatmap & Visualizations page with images to click to see bigger and embed examples etc
– Made a basic 404 page
– Added meta labels to the updates page to prep it for import
– Combined all updates so there is one a day (previously there were a few days that had multiple rows of updates to make it easier to read in the spreadsheet format)
– Created update post type and associated metadata fields
– Created regular import job for the updates
– Did the initial import of updates, worked perfect, easy peasy. Will now import automatically every morning.
– Created terms post type, labeled meta columns, set up auto import, etc, imported 154 terms! That’s all the data from the spreadsheet finally now in the website! Now to style this crap.
-Made original fav icon (in google sheets lol because it’s.. funny. There’s a color space/profile issue but I’ll get it figured out later)
– Key/Definitions, Update History laid out. everything in there and styled
– Key page sorting correctly alphabetically now. Added anchor IDs so it’s possible to link to a definition directly.
– Made a fresh google analytics acct and hooked it up
– Updated links on the first page of the spreadsheet to go to the subdomain links (which for now are still based on the now hidden tabs)
-Fun Parade Wrapper: May need some sort of wrapper to control width in different browsers/screen size. added to Section headers, Pagination. Added fun to around the explainer pages
(Explainer, Key, Scoring Guide and Examples, Steam Tag Research, Heatmap & Visualizations, Alternative Terrible Scales, Thanks, FAQ, 404, Update History, To do list)
– I think that’s every page decorated with some random sprites now, will hopefully drive a little more interest towards the art in these games, which is really great imho

12/13/2023 Imported patch notes

12/13/2023 Update

– Fixed conditional headers for explainer pages, error pages, archive updates and table view
– Added font style toggle with robot and arial
– Tweaks for font option
– Fixed scripting error for review disclaimer view toggle
– Scripting so Ctrl or command F opens our custom Search/filter Bar
– Implemented display with labels and post count for custom search/filtering
– Refined pagination display
– Disabled ctrl-f intercept for now, ideally want to figure out a way to be able to search within the table without crashing the browser. I always get frustrated when something doesn’t work the way I expect as a user.idk.
– Single Pages moved into website. I’m just doing page contents styling in html, obviously, but it’s pulled in. Scale ‘sidebar’ from the explainer into the sidebar template. Done: Explainer, Thanks, FAQ, Steam Tag Research essay, Alternative Terrible Sales, ToDo List
– The above pages are now hidden on the spreadsheet, they’re not going to be updated here anymore. Apologies if you can’t find them for the period before the websites is up, but I think the published pages should still show.
– Search Page stuff: Show search results / pagination in header, Previous and next button, made sure it shows up on the search page template
– Added copyleft statement and explanation to footer and faq

12/11/2023 Imported patch notes

12/11/2023 Update

– continued prototype work
– Created 4 widget areas (single page sidebar, filter nav, main menu, footer)
– Add “Documentation” (menu)
– Styled/animated pop out from left menu for meta pages
– Populated menu (created placeholder pages for all pages)
– Added view toggles (larger versions) to main menu for compact, pinning, font size and ‘fun’ (animated sprites)
– Added ‘in new window’ icon to menu items that open in a new window
– Responsive styling and styling for compact, zoom, etc for the new menu
– Revised always visible links to be the link for the menu (hiding some older links)
– Moved main icon to the left of both title and header links
– Removed more header info from compact view on small screens
– Fix masonry “masonry.min.js?ver=4.2.2:10 Bad element for masonry: #grid-container-undefined”
– set up filter/search in backend
– Started single page (text explainer) template
– Added sidebar, footer, different header to single pages
– populated single page sidebar with main menu
– added mouse wait styling when javascript is working
– made sure masonry only files if there’s an expandable expanded (via hash)
– removed some redundant javascript, added debounce/delay to others
– changed main link to open up menu instead of refreshing the whole database
– simplified some toggle code for the menus
– Changed out “unknown” for platform for items we don’t have info one, replaced it with Windows PC, since they were all found on steam
– Changed out ? for run time / dev, for “unknown” since the ? was breaking the taxonomies
– Added advanced “Search/Filter” dropdown panel to top of game release and info column
– Added sort by options: Similarity score, Total points, Combined review score, Steam reviews, Meteoritic review, Scale category groups
– Added ability to sort by any of hte 60 categories in the similarity scale (do have to pick one of the sort options atm)
– Added filter by each taxonomy Group
– Tested and tweaked search page, seems pretty solid
– Cleaned up control tags
– Implemented pagination w page numbers for sort/filter views

12/10/2023 Imported patch notes

12/10/2023 Update

– responsive column layout implemented for the more info areas, works correctly with compactables now
– Spent a while fine tuning masonry and element order at various breakpoints
– changed & to “and” in our titles, sorry game that use &, it’s just gonna be “and” to make things easier on the various targeting things that will break with “&”
– Built out main menu nav and expansion/close functionality, created placeholder pages for the various text tabs
– Since we won’t need to have phone readability be a major concern for the update notes on the spreadsheet (they’ll be imported into the site and are also pasted into reddit and discord), made a wider column in the spreadsheet so you can read more on a screen
– Updated site description for character count

12/09/2023 Imported patch notes

12/9/2023 Update

– Adjusted Time Survivors review scale score up (and then ranking position) with recent improvements (need to spend some more time with it, really)
– Removed custom function generated social links, kind of silly to put them into a cell, then remove them from a cell, then put them back in code later. We’ll just put them directly in the original social cell and deal with it being ugly.
– Added NSFW to tag list
– Implement user control over expandng or contracting all the info available
– tied page wide into compact user preference so user can choose to keep them all compact as they browse around the site
– Added bestiary score to Fantasy Survivors
– Successfully implemented spreadsheet columns in the front end: notes_control_style, notes_automated_features, notes_supports_controller, notes_supports_controller_move_only, notes_supports_1_handed_controller, notes_supports_mouse_only, notes_supports_keyboard_only, notes_supports_1_handed_keyboard, Taxonomies, release_status, similarity_guess (taxonomy), control_modes (taxonomy), developer_or_publisher, features_and_extras (taxonomy), game_mode_tags, average_run_time, platform_compatibility, sort_section (taxonomy), notes_multiplayer_local, notes_multiplayer_online, notes_player_count, notes_leaderboards, notes_steam_cloud, notes_steam_achievements, notes_steam_leaderboards, notes_steam_workshop, notes_steam_trading_cards, notes_nsfw, notes_demo_available, notes_dlc_available, notes_soundtrack_available, soundtrack_links, notes_windows_support, notes_mac_support, notes_linux_support, notes_steamdeck_support, notes_other_platforms, notes_price, notes_developer, notes_publisher, notes_release_date, notes_fully_released, notes_recent_updates, date_checked, notes_included_game_modes, notes_game_mode_notes, notes_in_run_progression, notes_meta_progression, notes_content_by_the_numbers, notes_in_game_extras, notes_accessibility, notes_tutorial, average_run_times (taxonomy), notes_run_time_notes, notes_speed, notes_forum, notes_discord, notes_subreddit, notes_wiki, notes_socials (array with link), notes_ui_main_menu, notes_ui_display_and_sound, notes_ui_gameplay_options, notes_ui_hud, notes_ui_pause, notes_ui_level, notes_ui_meta_unlocks, some more