EvenBetterGlitchwave

Genre index, categorised descriptors, chart voting, load-all lists, release charts, profile stats and store autofill for Glitchwave.

EvenBetterGlitchwave adds eight improvements to Glitchwave’s charts, genre pages, game pages, profiles and game submission form. VOTE ON GENRES FROM CHARTS Adds a “Vote on genres” button to every game on a chart. Click it to open Glitchwave’s genre voting dialog right there, without leaving the chart. Ctrl-click or middle-click opens the game in a new tab with the voting dialog already open, so you can vote on several games at once. CATEGORISED GENRES AND DESCRIPTORS ON GAME PAGES One GENRES block, with primary genres in bold and influences underneath. A DESCRIPTORS block sorted into categories: Art style and graphics, Controls and interface, Game mechanics, Game modes, Perspective and camera, Themes, Timekeeping, and Other. The descriptor list is read from Glitchwave’s own Descriptors page and refreshed daily, so new descriptors are sorted correctly without waiting for an update. The “Vote on genres” button moves from the bottom of the page to sit beside the genres heading. A Detailed / Simple switch goes back to a plain primary/secondary layout, and your choice is remembered. SEARCHABLE GENRE INDEX The genre list becomes rows, with genres on the left and descriptors on the right. Search every genre and descriptor at once and see where each one is filed. Press / to jump to the search and Enter to open the top result. “Show subgenres” opens a genre’s whole family underneath it, nested exactly as Glitchwave files it. Sort A–Z, by largest family or by most direct subgenres. Every genre is a real link, so Ctrl-click and middle-click open new tabs. Adds the genres Glitchwave files under no parent, which the site never lists on this page. LOAD ALL PAGES + INSTANT SORT AND FILTER ON GENRE PAGES One click merges every page of a genre’s game list into a single list. Filter instantly by title or genre, release year range, minimum number of ratings, minimum average rating, or recommended games only. Sort instantly by release date, title, average, number of ratings or number of reviews. Glitchwave’s own column headers sort in place too, with no page reload. Optional “auto” setting loads every page whenever you open a genre. Keyboard shortcuts: / to jump to the filter, Esc to clear it, Shift+L to load all pages. Pages are fetched one at a time with a short pause between each, so Glitchwave isn’t hit with a burst of requests. RELEASES BY YEAR CHART Genre, platform and company pages get a “Releases by year” bar chart. Nothing loads until you press “Generate chart”. Platform pages count each game by its release year on that platform, and company pages by the year that company released it. Hover a bar for the exact count. On genre pages, click a bar to open that year’s chart. PROFILE STATS Rating stats under the rating chart: average, median, spread, most-used rating, and the share of ratings at 4.0+ and at 2.0 or less. One click lists every game in the collection at a given rating. The cover collage no longer repeats the same game. Collection genres link to their genre pages, and tags link to the collection filtered by that tag. AUTOFILL NEW GAMES FROM A STORE LINK Paste a link to the game’s page on a supported PC or mobile store at the top of Glitchwave’s “New game” form. The form shows which stores are supported. It fills in the title (fixing ALL-CAPS store titles and picking the sort word), edition name, platforms, release or Early Access date, media, player count, multiplayer attributes and meta-comments with the source links. One-click buttons search Glitchwave for the developer and publisher. A checklist shows what was filled and what still needs checking by hand, and flags soundtracks, demos and cosmetic DLC that don’t belong on Glitchwave. Nothing is submitted for you. You review the form and submit it yourself. HEADER THEME TOGGLE A sun/moon button in the header switches between Glitchwave’s light and night themes, replacing the unlabelled floating circle in the corner. PRIVACY EvenBetterGlitchwave collects no data and has no accounts or tracking. Your settings are stored only in your own browser. It runs on glitchwave.com and reads only Glitchwave’s own pages: the Descriptors page (once a day), a genre’s page when you open it in the genre index, your collection’s first page for spare collage covers, and every page of a list when you choose “Load all pages” or “Generate chart”. A store’s game page is read only when you paste a link to it into Glitchwave’s “New game” form. This is why the extension asks for permission to access those store sites. Nothing is sent to any other site. EvenBetterGlitchwave is an unofficial extension. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Glitchwave or Sonemic.