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13 September 2026

11 September 2026

  • 22:3322:33, 11 September 2026 RefractTrack Upgrading (hist | edit) [5,781 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Upgrading == This page covers moving an existing, already-installed RefractTrack up to a newer version. If you're setting RefractTrack up for the very first time, you want Getting Started instead. Upgrading is a files-only operation — it never touches your database directly. Your projects, tasks, users, uploaded attachments, and settings are never copied over or replaced, since the new files simply sit down next to <code>config/</c...")

3 September 2026

  • 03:4203:42, 3 September 2026 RefractSurvey License (hist | edit) [2,081 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This page is a plain-language summary of what buying RefractSurvey gets you. The itch.io purchase page is always the authoritative source — if anything here ever seems to disagree with it, the itch.io listing wins. == What you're buying == A license to install and run RefractSurvey, self-hosted on your own server (or a server you rent), for your own studio or team. That includes: * Running it for as many projects, surveys, and testers as you want — see RefractSu...")
  • 03:2603:26, 3 September 2026 RefractSurvey Cost Breakdown (hist | edit) [1,916 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "RefractSurvey is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Here's exactly what that means once you're running it. == What you pay us == {| class="wikitable" |- ! Item !! Cost |- | RefractSurvey license (one-time) || Paid once, at [https://nerdofepic.itch.io/refractsurvey purchase] |- | Monthly subscription || $0 |- | Per-seat / per-user fees || $0 |- | Per-project fees || $0 |- | Per-response or per-survey fees || $0 |- | Update fees || $0 — every future release is a...")

1 September 2026

  • 15:0515:05, 1 September 2026 RefractSurvey Home (hist | edit) [3,002 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Welcome to RefractSurvey == RefractSurvey is a survey engine for game dev teams. Think of it as a friendly, self-hosted way to collect feedback from playtesters and friends built specifically for helping you make the best game possible. This guide walks through everything RefractSurvey can do, organized by what you're trying to accomplish rather than how it's built. === Get set up === * [https://refractsurvey.com Brochure] — features and how they will be useful...")

29 August 2026

  • 19:0319:03, 29 August 2026 RefractTrack License (hist | edit) [4,707 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== RefractTrack License == Copyright (c) Pixel Refraction Studio. All rights reserved. RefractTrack is '''commercial, proprietary software'''. It is not free software, freeware, shareware, or open source, and no license granted by this document should be interpreted as such. Obtaining a copy of this software (including the source code) does not transfer ownership of it to you, and does not grant you any rights beyond those explicitly stated below. You may obtain a lic...")
  • 00:5100:51, 29 August 2026 Linux Distros (hist | edit) [2,954 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Major Debian-Based Distros == * '''Debian''' – The core community project and parent operating system for hundreds of downstream forks. * '''MX Linux''' – A midweight, highly popular desktop system built on Debian stable. * '''Kali Linux''' – A specialized security and penetration-testing platform. * '''Tails''' – A privacy-focused live system that routes all traffic through Tor. * '''Raspberry Pi OS''' (formerly Raspbian) – The official system for Raspberr...")
  • 00:0200:02, 29 August 2026 RefractTrack Automated Server Setup (hist | edit) [5,158 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Automated Server Setup == If you don't already have somewhere to host RefractTrack, there's an optional setup script that can do almost all of the heavy lifting for you. Point it at a plain Linux computer with a network connection, answer a handful of questions, and it hands you back a server running RefractTrack, with its own database, over a proper secured (https) connection — ready for the friendly in-browser setup wizard described in RefractTrack_Getting_Star...")

28 August 2026

  • 13:4013:40, 28 August 2026 RefractTrack Getting Started (hist | edit) [3,715 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Getting Started == RefractTrack is self-hosted, which means it runs on a web server your team controls rather than someone else's cloud. That sounds like more work than it is — there's a guided setup wizard that does almost everything for you. === What you need === RefractTrack needs a fairly ordinary web server: something that can run PHP and talk to a MySQL (or MariaDB) database. Most affordable web hosting plans already have both. If your team has someone who...")

27 August 2026

  • 23:3923:39, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Sales Pitch (hist | edit) [8,119 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "= RefractTrack: the board your team will actually keep open = '''Refract Odyssey Studio needed a tracker that felt like it was built for a small game team — not a boxed-up enterprise tool with fifty menus for the ten things people actually do all day.''' RefractTrack is that tracker: a self-hosted kanban board purpose-built for tracking tasks and bugs across one or more game projects, with real role-based permissions, per-project workflows, and zero monthly seat fees....")
  • 23:3323:33, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Feature Inventory (hist | edit) [3,229 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Feature Inventory == A flat checklist of what RefractTrack can do as of v99. Each item links to its full page where one exists. * Clone an existing task * Archive/unarchive — individually, or in bulk via "archive all done" * Markdown formatting — bold, italic, underline, headings, nested lists, code blocks with C#/JSON syntax highlighting, live preview panels, and an in-app he...")
  • 23:2923:29, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Themes and Branding (hist | edit) [1,491 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Themes and Branding == The application's name and color theme are configurable from Manage → Application Config (<code><nowiki>app_settings.php</nowiki></code>), without touching any file on the server — both live in the single-row <code><nowiki>app_settings</nowiki></code> database table, not in <code><nowiki>config/config.php</nowiki></code>. * <code><nowiki>themes:change</nowiki></code> — permission to change the color theme * <code><nowiki>themes:brand</no...")
  • 23:2823:28, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Permissions and Roles (hist | edit) [3,621 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Permissions and Roles == RefractTrack uses a full role-based access control (RBAC) system. There is no longer a fixed "Member vs. Reporter" split baked into the code — that distinction now exists only as a seeded, ordinary, fully-editable '''Reporter''' role preset, like any other role. === Permission keys === <code><nowiki>includes/permissions.php</nowiki></code>'s <code><nowiki>PERMISSION_DEFS</nowiki></code> is the single source of truth for every permission k...")
  • 23:2723:27, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Users (hist | edit) [1,620 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Users == === No public signup === RefractTrack has no self-service registration. Accounts are added by an existing teammate with <code><nowiki>users:create</nowiki></code> (from Users → Add user), or bootstrapped from the command line for the very first account: <pre> php scripts/create_user.php jdoe "Jane Doe" </pre> This prompts for a password interactively. === Adding users === The Add User form (<code><nowiki>user_form.php</nowiki></code>) can generate a r...")
  • 23:2623:26, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Export and Import (hist | edit) [4,497 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Export and Import == A project's tickets can be exported and re-imported as either '''JSON''' (the default format) or '''CSV''', gated by <code><nowiki>backups:export</nowiki></code> and <code><nowiki>backups:import</nowiki></code> respectively. Both are project-scoped permissions — see Permissions and Roles. === Exported fields === Both formats export the same set of fields, in the same order, from a single shared definitio...")
  • 23:2523:25, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Attachments (hist | edit) [2,058 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Attachments == Tasks support file attachments, gated by <code><nowiki>attachments:view</nowiki></code> / <code><nowiki>attachments:create</nowiki></code> / <code><nowiki>attachments:delete</nowiki></code>. === Storage === Uploaded files are stored on disk under <code><nowiki>uploads/tasks/<task_id>/</nowiki></code> with randomized filenames. By default only <code><nowiki>.jpg .jpeg .png .gif .webp .zip</nowiki></code> are accepted, and the allowed list is configura...")
  • 23:2423:24, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Comments and Activity Log (hist | edit) [1,347 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Comments and Activity Log == Each task detail page has two tabs: * '''Comments''' — free-text discussion, rendered through the markdown subset. Posting requires <code><nowiki>comments:create</nowiki></code>; viewing requires <code><nowiki>comments:view</nowiki></code>. * '''Activity''' — an automatically-generated, system-written history of what happened to the task (stage changes, review-status changes, field edits, etc.), k...")
  • 23:2423:24, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Approvals and Review (hist | edit) [1,288 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Approvals and Review == Every task carries a <code><nowiki>review_status</nowiki></code> of <code><nowiki>pending</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>approved</nowiki></code>, or <code><nowiki>wont_do</nowiki></code>, independent of its stage and archive state. This gives teams a lightweight sign-off workflow layered on top of the stage-based workflow — a task can, for example, sit in a "Done" stage while still awaiting review. === Approving, rejecting, and resetting =...")
  • 23:2323:23, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Archiving (hist | edit) [1,337 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Archiving == Tasks can be archived off the active board without being deleted. Archiving sets a task's <code><nowiki>archived_at</nowiki></code> timestamp, which is orthogonal to both its stage and its review status — a task can be in any stage, with any review status, and archived or not, independently. === Archiving individual tasks === Any task with <code><nowiki>tasks:archive</nowiki></code> permission can be archived or unarchived from its detail page. ===...")
  • 23:2223:22, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Bulk Task Creation and Saved Lists (hist | edit) [1,996 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Bulk Task Creation and Saved Lists == === Bulk create === <code><nowiki>bulk_task_form.php</nowiki></code>, linked from the nav as "Bulk Create", generates many similar tasks in one pass — a mail-merge style workflow: # Paste a list of items, one per line (e.g. a project's biomes, enemy types, item names). # Write a title/description template using a placeholder — <code><nowiki>{item}</nowiki></code> by default, though the tag name is editable — which gets sw...")
  • 23:2123:21, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Markdown Formatting (hist | edit) [2,545 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Markdown Formatting == Free-text fields (task descriptions, comments, bug fields) support a small, purpose-built markdown subset — not a full CommonMark implementation. A help modal in the app documents this for end users; this page is the reference version. === Block-level syntax === {| class="wikitable" ! Syntax !! Result |- | <code><nowiki># Heading</nowiki></code> || Heading (rendered as <code><nowiki><h4></nowiki></code>) |- | <code><nowiki>## Heading</nowik...")
  • 23:2023:20, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Groups (hist | edit) [1,095 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Groups == Groups are a many-to-many tag on tasks, scoped to a single project — a task can belong to multiple groups at once (e.g. both "Pause UI" and "Localization"). Managed from the Groups page (<code><nowiki>groups.php</nowiki></code> / <code><nowiki>group_form.php</nowiki></code>), gated by <code><nowiki>groups:view</nowiki></code> / <code><nowiki>groups:create</nowiki></code> / <code><nowiki>groups:edit</nowiki></code> / <code><nowiki>groups:delete</nowiki></c...")
  • 23:1923:19, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Stages (hist | edit) [1,895 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Stages == Stages are a project's swimlanes — the columns/workflow steps tasks move through on the board. Managed from Manage → Stages (<code><nowiki>stages.php</nowiki></code> / <code><nowiki>stage_form.php</nowiki></code>). === Per-project === Stages are '''per-project''': every project gets its own independent set, seeded at creation with a standard starter set (Not Started / In Progress / In Review / Blocked / Done). Ren...")
  • 23:1923:19, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Board and List Views (hist | edit) [1,671 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Board and List Views == RefractTrack offers two ways to browse a project's tasks. === Board view === <code><nowiki>board.php</nowiki></code> shows tasks as cards in swimlanes, one lane per visible Stage in that project, in the order stages are configured. * '''Drag-and-drop''' (<code><nowiki>js/board.js</nowiki></code>) moves a task between stages. This calls the <code><nowiki>api/update_stage.php</nowiki></code> AJAX endpoint, which indepe...")
  • 23:1823:18, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Tasks (hist | edit) [5,152 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Tasks == A task is the core unit of work in RefractTrack, always scoped to a single Project and identified by a task code like <code><nowiki>RPG-12</nowiki></code> (its project's prefix plus a sequential number). === Fields === Every task has: * '''Title''' and '''Description''' (description supports the Markdown Formatting subset) * '''Type''' — <code><nowiki>Normal</nowiki></code> or <code><nowiki>...")
  • 23:1723:17, 27 August 2026 RefractTrack Projects (hist | edit) [2,617 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Projects == RefractTrack tracks tasks across one or more independent '''projects'''. Every project has: * A '''name''' and a short '''prefix''' (e.g. <code><nowiki>RPG</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>SFRPG</nowiki></code>) — every task inside the project is numbered off its prefix (<code><nowiki>RPG-1</nowiki></code>, <code><nowiki>RPG-2</nowiki></code>, ...), giving Jira-style task codes with matching clean URLs (<code><nowiki>/task/RPG-12</nowiki></code>). * Its...")

24 August 2026

  • 15:0415:04, 24 August 2026 RefractTrack Features (hist | edit) [2,595 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Designed to support indie game development from the ground up. {| class="wikitable" |+ Tickets !Feature!!Description |- |Create Tickets||Allows the creation of tickets or bugs. |- |Report Issues||A separate path for play testers to tell you about bugs or suggest features. |- |Approve Reported Issues||Reported issues won't clog up your board until you approve them. |- |Clone Tickets||Save time by making a ticket that's a copy of something similar. |- |Bulk Create Tickets...")
  • 14:5214:52, 24 August 2026 RefractTrack Cost Breakdown (hist | edit) [1,021 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "RefractTrack is designed from the ground up for the things I needed for tracking my indie game development adventures. It is flexible enough that is should be possible to use it for any development project and probably all sorts of other projects too. I want every indie game developer to benefit from the tool that I made and for that to be possible it has to be reasonably priced. Below is the list of what it costs for you to get your own copy of RefractTrack. {| class="...")
  • 14:4714:47, 24 August 2026 RefractTrack Home (hist | edit) [3,482 bytes] Nerdofepic (talk | contribs) (Created page with "=RefractTrack= Self-Hosted Indie Game Development Task Tracker =Highlights= '''One Time Purchase''' ([https://nerdofepic.itch.io/refracttrack Buy It!]) Inexpensive solution for keeping track of your indie game project. There are no subscription fees or per-seat fees. Check out the RefractTrack Cost Breakdown '''Self-Hosted''' Set it up and use it on your own server. No more worrying about cloud providers going away. There is even a pre-assembled image for rapid d...") originally created as "RefractTrack"
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