We finally did it. We’ve retired the old GhostJam Games website and replaced it with something leaner, faster, and much easier for us to handle.
Out With the Old
Our previous site was built on Django, which was honestly more engine than we ever needed. To make matters worse, it lived on a legacy server that recently decided to call it quits. Trying to coax that environment back online was a massive headache—one that reminded us why we wanted to move away from complex backends in the first place.
The New Setup
We’ve ditched the “corporate bloat” and the server maintenance for a modern, static stack:
- Hugo: A lightning-fast static site generator.
- Cloudflare Pages: No more server management; it just works.
- Git-Driven: We manage the site via our codebase.
Why This is Better
- Minimalist Design: We’ve stripped the site down to the essentials. It’s cleaner, less “enterprise,” and actually looks like a game studio lives here.
- Maintenance-Free: Since there’s no database or server to baby, we don’t have to worry about the site “going down” ever again.
- Simple Updates: Writing a dev log is now as easy as pushing a Markdown file to Git.
We’re a game studio—we should be spending our time on mechanics and art, not server troubleshooting. This new site lets us get back to what we do best.
Take a look around. Everything should feel a lot snappier now.