OGameX (self-hosted)
Running an open-source OGame clone — a Laravel space-strategy game — on my own infrastructure.
- Role
- Self-hosting & ops
- Year
- 2026
OGameX is an open-source reimplementation of the classic browser strategy game OGame, built on Laravel. I host my own instance to learn the codebase and tinker with game mechanics.
- Stack: Laravel 12, PHP, MySQL, with some Rust components, all containerised.
- Ops: Docker Compose under Dokploy, with the full app tree versioned alongside my other stacks.
A good playground for exercising a real-world PHP app end to end: builds, database migrations, background jobs, and the deployment story around all of it.