Vgames
A Hebrew gaming magazine and community
Personal hobby project.
The problem
Give Hebrew-speaking gamers one place for news, reviews, a game library and discussion.
What I built
- A release calendar for upcoming and released games.
- Combined search across games and articles.
- A game library with developer information.
- Nested article comments with replies and edit history.
- Google sign-in on the forum.
- Article embeds for X, Reddit, YouTube and Telegram.
- Dark mode across all three sites.
- A database upgrade and index tuning that cut homepage load time.
- A staging area so design changes are reviewed before going live.
Skills
- Product ownership
- Hebrew and RTL localization
- Database performance tuning
- Legacy system maintenance
Main tools
- PHP
- Smarty
- MariaDB
- vBulletin
- JavaScript
- Google Apps Script