Huge Frontend Redesign
Massively redesigned the Shadorux frontend, rebuilding major pages and homepage experiences with new page-specific layouts, graphics, motion, and cleaner navigation while keeping the network's Shadow-first identity intact.
SHADORUXUPDATES
Everything I've been adding, rebuilding, fixing, and expanding across Shadorux.
The Ultimate Life Form & Shadow Media Archive
Built the first version of The Ultimate Life Form, a five-slide interactive Shadow presentation integrated into the homepage, covering the Shadorux network, the 326 Story Paths project, Shadow preservation, fan communities, and the Shadow media and graphics hoard. Reworked its custom backgrounds and navigation, added the falling Shadow visual motif, and began turning the preservation slide into a real browsable collection.
Rebuilt the Gallery into the Shadow Media Archive for official renders, promotional artwork, screenshots, wallpapers, web media, scans, and other Shadow material. Added an initial local image collection and cleaned up several homepage, Explorer, and readability issues.
Shadow 2005 Database Expansion
Added a Three.js 3D route table driven by the real 326-route graph, GSAP route tracing, interactive pages for all 22 branching Story Mode stages, and database entities for all 10 normal endings with exact route filtering. Connected Shadorux and Shadow Shrine through the current Shadow Webring, improved keyboard accessibility, and automated sitemap freshness.
Archive & Discovery
Improved homepage search metadata, moved public Shadow Archive links to its canonical hostname, and expanded personal writing and Explorer connections.
All 326 Story Paths
Expanded the 326 Story Paths project into a complete browsable route directory and continued strengthening Shadorux independent-web distribution.
Voice Reference & Route Research
Expanded the Shadow voice-actor reference with a clearer English game timeline and continuity guide, and continued improving the 326 Story Paths explorer with route browsing and search.
Residents, Webring & Preservation
Restored Residents, cleaned the Shadow Webring back to its intended Shadow-only focus, added confirmed independent-web placements, and upgraded 326 Story Paths from a route builder into a directory containing all 326 complete routes.
Network Expansion
Added two new Shadow search-entry pages, upgraded the Shadow Webring with a join form and classic member widget, expanded SHADOW.FUN sharing and replay features, fixed mobile landing-page issues, and began the flagship Shadow News and Shadow Reference expansion.
Read the full update →Network Redesign
Reworked the Shadorux landing page and shared network styling, expanded the About page, and launched the central Shadorux Network RSS feed.
SHADOW.FUN Opens
Opened SHADOW.FUN with sixteen Shadow the Hedgehog games, quizzes, toys, and interactive experiments. Shadow Archive and the wider network also received a visual refresh.
New Web Tools
Added the Meta Tag Generator, AI Visibility Checker, and llms.txt Generator, and continued improving the Developer Journal.
Shadow Web Graphics
Expanded Resources with dedicated Shadow web-graphics pages for blinkies, backgrounds, overlays, stamps, dividers, pixels, and web buttons.
Westopolis Explorer
Rebuilt Westopolis Explorer as a content interface with archive folders, a Developer Journal directory, and an in-page document viewer.
Landing Experience
Redesigned the landing experience, added GA4 tracking to public pages, and refined the Westopolis entrance and music behavior.
Projects Archive
Added the projects archive, improved project-page readability, and connected the Unicode Inspector project more clearly to the site.
Developer Journal
Added the React and Next.js debugging service and launched the Developer Journal with practical technical articles.
Shadorux Network
Added and refined the Shadorux Network panel on the landing page, including links to the archive.
Fan-Site Directory
Expanded the Westopolis network with a fan-site directory and improved search metadata for the archive.
Chaos Radio
Published Chaos Radio and linked it into the wider Shadorux network. The blog zone also received its first visual redesign.
Early Expansion
Added the security contact file, GitHub links, blinkies, a Chaos Radio terminal, and a Shadow-themed scene homepage.
Mobile & Performance
Optimized the site and improved mobile navigation while preserving the desktop artwork layout.
Shadorux Launches
Launched the site with custom titles, metadata, site music, and an expanded gallery.