seraph

version 10

(this patch log is unfinished, update isn't out yet! dev build a patch logs are below:)

update log page is now a dropdown instead of a long page
added import/export function on settings
added an update popup on visit of the site for whenever new updates are made to seraph
compressed images on site, leading to 70-90% decrease in file sizes
improved custom themes with no refreshing required per update
cleaned up some animations around the site
improved favicon, making it curved and have an outline

version 9

Added mobile edition to homepage
- Mobile friendly user interface that loads fewer resources
- Contains compatible games/apps with touchscreen, as well as preset themes and tab cloaking
Added twenty-seven brand new games
- Geometry Rash, Hole.io, Sandtrix, Shapeshipper, Slope Ball, Stickman Golf, Totally Accurate Battle Simulation, Watermelon Game, Wall Smash, Crimson Fantasia, Cut the Rope, Funny Mad Racing, Geometry Dash Lite, Grand Theft Grotto, Drift Mania, Rise Higher, Burrito Bison, Pool, Redball, Redball 3, Redball 4, Redball 4 Vol 2, Redball 4 Vol 3, Rough Dino, Time Shooter, Time Shooter 2, Time Shooter 3
Added two new apps
- HTML Coder, v86
Added cookie consent prompt to the site
Retired the policy/data page due to the addition of cookie consent prompt
Fixed crucial bug leading games to a 404 error (e.g., Subway Surfers)
Fixed numerous backend bugs / various undocumented changes

version 8.2

Added three brand new games
- Ten Minutes Till Dawn
- Volley Random
- Waterworks
Added Metro theme
Added open blank tab links to game page, home page, and apps page; opening your current window in a new tab
Removed custom cursor due to complaints / incompatible with users not enabling JavaScript

version 8.1

Added six brand new games
- Dadish
- Dadish 2
- Dadish 3
- Yohoho.io
- Snow Rider 3D
- Tube Jumpers
Added subzero theme; a theme featuring pixelated blue scenery, exploring an abandoned flooding Subzero station.

version 8

Added custom themes
- Custom themes allow a user to customize Seraph even more than what preset themes have to offer
- You now have the ability to manipulate the background image, background color, font family, border/secondary border colors, hover colors, and text glow colors
- Saves and functions just as a normal theme would, works all across the site
Added twelve brand new games
- Flash: Sprinter, Tron, 1 on 1 Soccer
- Other: Bad Time Simulator, Amazing Rope Police, Celeste, Just Fall LOL, Ngon, Rocket Soccer, Stickman Climb, osu!mania, Helix Jump
Added two brand new apps
- Turbowarp Packager: A tool that converts Scratch projects into HTML files, zip archives, or applications for Windows, MacOS, and Linux.
- Turbowarp Unpackager: A tool that unpackages HTML/zip files generated by Turbowarp's packager, forkphorous, or HTMLifier into their original Scratch project.
Added mobile games genre (games that are compatible with touch screen devices)
Made games, apps, and update log page background static while scrolling
Touched up settings styling, fixing some styling issues and adjusting the layout/descriptions
Added scrolling to the settings page / made settings scrollbar visible
Reshuffled links on the home page
Readded previous version update onto update log
Updated README slightly to fix some errors

version 7.4

Added misinformation theme; featuring unreadable colors and animated backgrounds designed to ruin the aesthetic of seraph, unlockable by typing a secret code into the settings page
Removed header glow from update log headers for optimized performance
Fixed normal cursor appearing on the settings page
Updated meta tags to have more consistent information
Added search bar to the apps page
Moved copyright statement to the bottom of the apps page
Restocked some links

version 7.3

Added eighteen brand new games
- Flash: Shop Empire, Monster Brawl, Multitask, Shift, Shift 2, Shift 3, Shift 4
- Nintendo DS: Monopoly, Picross DS, WarioWare: DIY
- Other: Pizza Tower, Territorial.io, 1v1.lol, Ballistic Chickens, Basketbros.io, Minecraft Classic, Deathrun 3D, Soccer Random
Added ethereal theme; a dormant forest landscape, left untouched by anyone for years
Revamped homepage buttons to look cleaner and appear next to each other
Updated settings page animation to fade in elements individually
Updated games page animation to tween scale
Adjusted layout of games page
Fixed normal cursor appearing over custom cursor in host and data page
Updated README file for GitHub to make it more clear

version 7.2

Added fifty-one brand new games
- SNES: The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, Donkey Kong Country, Donkey Kong Country 2, Super Bomberman, Mario Paint, Mega Man X, Super Mario RPG, Super Tennis, Wario's Woods
- Flash: World's Hardest Game 2, Bubble Tanks 2, Choose Your Weapon, Choose Your Weapon 2, Choose Your Weapon 3, Connect 4, Electric Box, Minecraft Tower Defence 2
- Nintendo DS: Cars 2, Cooking Mama, Adventure Time: Hey Ice King!, Garfield Gets Real, WarioWare: Touched, Kirby Power Paintbrush
- Sega Mega Drive: Sonic and Knuckles, Altered Beast, Sonic Spinball, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe
- Game Boy Advance: Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
- Other: Champion Island, Super Mario Construct, Clicker Heroes, Stair Race 3D, Slope 2, Paper.io 3D, MotoX3M Spooky, MotoX3M Winter, Snake, Papa's Tacomia, OVO, Knife Hit, Cubefield, Burger and Frights, Chess, Friday Night Funkin: Mid Fight Masses, Thumb Fighter, Snowbattle.io, Lazy Jump 3D, Go Ball, Flippy Fish
Renamed cookies page to data page
Added anonymous analytic tracking

version 7.1

Added thirty-six brand new games
- Nintendo DS: Mario and Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, The Sims 2, Tetris DS, Sonic Rush, The Sims 3, Super Princess Peach, Lego Batman
- Game Boy Advance: Doom II, Duke Nukem Advance, Mario Party Advance, Mario Pinball Land, Pacman World, Rayman 3, Shrek 2, Simcity 2000, The Simpsons: Road Rage
- Nintendo 64: Diddy Kong Racing, Wave Racing, Quest 64, Gex 64, Duke Nukem 64, Mortal Kombat 4
- Flash: Bad Piggies, Super Mario Flash 2, Swords and Sandals, Swords and Sandals 2
- Other: Wordle, Vex, Vex 2, Vex 5, Vex 7, Stack, Skibidi Toilet Attack, MotoX3M Pool, Offline Paradise
Added two new themes
- Molten: An abandoned mineshaft, now gone to waste
- Amethyst: A temple lying dormant at night, enveloped in an eerie purple aesthetic
Added new webretro app: Upload ROMs and play games on old retro devices with your browser using webretro!
Created four more website links
Fixed some mobile sizing issues
Adjusted some spacing briefly

version 7

Added twenty-seven brand new games
- Nintendo 64: Goldeneye 007, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, Paper Mario, Mario Golf, Pokemon Stadium, Excitebike 64, Pokemon Snap, Mario Party 3
- Flash: Duck Life 5, Learn to Fly 3, Bloxors, Electric Man 2, Portal, Portal 2, Skywire 2
- Game Boy Advance: Golden Sun, Metroid Fusion, Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors, Wario Land 4, Sonic Advance 2
- Other: Duck Life 6, Boxing Random, Cell Machine, Stickman Boost, Vex 3, Vex 4, Skibidi Toilet 1v100
Added website themes setting
- Personalize your Seraph experience by choosing from a selection of custom themes from the settings menu
- Azurite: Enjoy the main Seraph theme but enveloped in a dark and warm tint of blue
- Retro: A blast to the past theme, featuring retro-like aesthetics and pixelated backgrounds/fonts
- Cosmic: A mysterious space station, with no visible signs of life in sight...
Added starred games feature
- Click on the star icon on any game to add it to the starred games section
- Starred games appear above every other game
- Saves to your browser, works with genre sorting and search bar
Added Weavesilk app to the apps page
Added Google Drive cloak
Renamed cloaking tab page to settings page
Added four new links for Seraph
Redid backgrounds for 404, settings, host and home page
Added notice for how Seraph handles cookies and local storage, accessible from the homepage
Adjusted games page styling slightly to add more spacing and made text slightly smaller
Fixed cloaking on Windows 11 app
Attempted to fix 404 page styling on some 404 instances

version 6.2

Added thirty-nine brand new games
- Nintendo 64: Doom 64, Banjo Kazooie, Donkey Kong 64, F-Zero X, Kirby 64, Mario Kart 64, Mario Party, Mario Party 2, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Star Fox 64, Super Smash Bros
- Game Boy Advance: Street Fighter 2, Advance Wars 2, Harvest Moon, Mario Tennis, Mega Man Zero, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, Pokemon Unbound
- Flash: Papa's Bakeria, Papa's Cupcakeria, Papa's Cheeseria, Papa's Pastaria, Gun Mayhem 2, Gun Mayhem Redux, Achievement Unlocked 2, Achievement Unlocked 3, Factory Balls, Skywire, Super Mario Flash
- Nintendo DS: Mario Party DS, Professor Layton, Scribblenauts
- Other: Bad Ice Cream, Bad Ice Cream 2, Bad Ice Cream 3, Adventure Capitalist, Monkey Mart, Getaway Shootout, Rabbit Samurai
Added two brand new apps
- Windows 11: a recreation of Windows 11 inside of React, which can be run through a web browser
- Turbowarp: a Scratch mod which introduces lots of quality of life changes + compiles projects to JavaScript, making them run faster
Added a 404 page when the user runs into a page which doesn't exist
Redid hosting tutorial to add more clarification + showcase how to update the site
Added ten more links

version 6.1

Added 30 brand new games
- Flash: Chibi Knight, Doodle Defender, Learn to Fly 2, Papa's Scooperia, Papa's Sushiria, Papa's Wingeria, Raft Wars, Unfair Mario, The Impossible Quiz 2, Papa's Donuteria, Fancy Pants Adventure 2, Big Red Button, Achievement Unlocked
- Nintendo DS: Ace Attorney, Pokemon Diamond, Pokemon Platinum, Pokemon Soulsilver, Kirby Mass Attack
- Game Boy Advance: Metal Gear Solid, Mother 3, Advance Wars, Banjo Pilot, Super Monkey Ball Jr, Sonic Advance, Worms World Party
- Other: Rooftop Snipers 2, Fireboy and Watergirl, Cluster Rush, Boxing Physics 2, Tiny Fishing
Added one brand new app
- Thirty Dollar Website: a tool which can be used to make music entirely through meme sound effects and simple instruments
Added a new dropdown below the search bar to show games by genre, improving game discovery
New Vercel hosting for the main domain, content should load up to x2 faster than the previous host
Update log page now shows every update instead of just one
Added Chrome New Tab page cloak
Polished README file in the GitHub to be more clear
Removed more incorrect branding

version 6

Added eighteen brand new games
- Flash: Run, Run 2, Battleships, Breaking the Bank, Duck Life, Duck Life 2, Duck Life 3, Line Rider, Mario Combat, Raft Wars 2, Space Invaders, Gun Mayhem, Learn to Fly
- Nintendo DS: Animal Crossing: Wild World, Mario Kart DS, New Super Mario Bros, Nintendogs: Best Friends, Super Mario 64 DS
Added a brand new apps section, hosting fun utilities and demos of projects
- Ruffle App: Allows users to run thousands of Flash files (.swf) using Ruffle
- EmulatorJS App: Allows users to run game ROMs using EmulatorJS
- WebGL Fluids: A full fluid simulation ran entirely in WebGL
Added tab cloaking
- Select a preset cloak from the cloaking page, navigable from the homepage
- Five preset cloaks are preset currently, with more to come
- Refresh to see your tab disguised in plain sight!
- Every page on the website has been altered to support this new feature
Site now prefers to use official ruffle CDN instead of hosting locally to save bandwidth
New Vercel domain that auto-syncs with any changes made in GitHub
New background images created for relevant pages
Added neon glow to every h1 element in the site
Removed incorrect branding around the site
Minor optimizations around pages
Added more brief mobile support to pages around the site
Wording rephrasing has been made to better clarify information

version 5.1

Added twenty-one brand new games

Game Boy Advance: Bomberman, Fire Emblem, Ice Climber, Mario Kart Super Circuit, Pokemon Leaf Green, Pokemon Ruby, Pokemon Sapphire
Flash: Papa's Freezeria, Bloons Tower Defence, Bloons Tower Defence 2, Bloons Tower Defence 3, Bloons Tower Defence 4, Super Smash Flash, Super Meat Boy, This Is The Only Level
Other: Color Switch, A Dance of Fire and Ice (ADOFAI), Stickman Hook, Defend the Tank, Sort the Court

Added new placeholder image for games which do not have a thumbnail
Fixed cursor bug making horizontal scrollbars appear

version 5

Added fifteen brand new games

Game Boy Advance: Castlevania, Donkey Kong, Dr Mario, Metroid, Super Mario Bros 2 (Advance ver), Super Mario Bros 3 (Advance ver), The Legend of Zelda, WarioWare, Yoshi's Island (Advance ver)
Game Boy: Super Mario Land, Kirby's Dream Land, Donkey Kong Land
Other: Doge Miner, Tanuki Sunset, Aquapark Slides

Reworked games page

Added a search bar at the top of the page
Adjusted front size and width of buttons
Added homepage and GitHub button at the top of the page
Added copyrifght statement / credit for website at the top of the page
Changed background to darken the image and add various shapes
Background now repeats across the screen instead of stretching
Buttons no longer need to have the text clicked

Completely revamped the hosting page
Tweaked the background of the hosting page
Added more optimisations for low-end devices
Added some mobile support for pages across the site
Changed update log animation
Increased font size for update log + added padding
Added a neon glow to the homepage header

version 4

Added ten brand new games
- Baldi's Basics
- Bob the Robber 2
- Minesweeper
- Pokemon Emerald
- Pokemon Fire Red
- Super Mario Bros
- Super Mario Kart
- Super Mario World
- There is No Game
- World's Hardest Game
Added announcement banner showcasing that ten games will be added every week for the next five weeks
Tweaked update log layout to center links
Created a new background picture for hosting page
Adjusted the width of game page buttons
Game page buttons can now display three on one row if the screen size is capable
Added Google meta tags

version 3

Added sixteen brand new games
- FNAF: Five Nights at Freddy's 1, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Five Nights at Freddy's 3, Five Nights at Freddy's 4
- Riddle School: Riddle School, Riddle School 2, Riddle School 3, Riddle School 4, Riddle School 5, Riddle Transfer, Riddle Transfer 2
- Other: Drift Boss, Friday Night Funkin, Papa's Pancakeria, Pacman, Rooftop Snipers
Updated games page
- Added a custom cursor
- Resized buttons to be semi-responsive
- Games now open in a new tab
- Border effect removed for more optimization
- Changed font to match more with the website
Added custom cursor around the whole website
Changed homepage styling to be more accessible
Fixed resizing issues related to update log page
Fonts no longer rely on Google Fonts and are stored locally
Attempted to fix tanking Happy Wheels performance
Major GitHub README overhaul

version 2

Added twenty-one brand new games

Flash Games: Fancy Pants Adventure, The Binding of Isaac, Happy Wheels, Theme Hotel, Escaping the Prison, Stealing the Diamond, Infiltrating the Airship, Fleeing the Complex, The Impossible Quiz, Solitaire
Unity: SUPERHOT, Tunnel Rush, Drift Hunters
Other: Papa's Hotdoggeria, Townscaper, PaperIO2, Doodle Jump, Vex 6, Among Us (fangame), Edge Surf, MotoX3M

Completely revamped the games page

Buttons no longer have descriptions
Instead of clicking play, you can now click the whole button
Brand new hover effect
Buttons all have thumbnails
Buttons are smaller in width by 20px

Completely revamped the homepage
Added an update log page for full changelogs of what has been modified in updates
Reorganised folder layout for website
Miscellaneous optimisations / head tag optimisations
GitHub clean up

version 1

Finished the first iteration of the site, now ready for public release!
Ten games have been added for a total of twenty
Hosting page with tutorial
Seraph is now open source!

updates

homepage • github

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version 9

version 8.2

version 8.1

version 8

version 7.4

version 7.3

version 7.2

version 7.1

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