Changelog

Every week, members post a screenshot of the game they're building. A week opens on Sunday and closes on Friday, and on Saturday the week's favourites go up on the site.

• Where to post: the open week is pinned at the top of the feed until Friday and has its own section on the homepage. Every past week is on the Screenshot Saturday page.

• Feedback: other developers react with Looks Great, Cool Idea or Want to Play, and can comment on each screenshot.

• Badges: your first screenshot earns one, and so do your 5th and your 20th.

Week 1 is open until Friday 30 October. Post yours at gamedev.co.il/screenshot-saturday.

On the morning of 13 October our Discord bot sent the new community digest to the members who had signed up for it, and then kept sending it. Most people got around 19 copies, and a few got far more. We're sorry.

After sending each digest, the bot is supposed to note that it did. A database change from September made that step fail, so the bot never knew the digest had gone out and sent it again on every check, until we stopped it in the afternoon.

We stopped the bot as soon as we noticed, fixed the cause, and deleted every extra copy from your DMs, leaving one.

If you turned the digest off, it will stays off. If you blocked the bot, we understand, you can unblock it any time to get notifications from the site again. Questions or complaints: [email protected]

• Getting started: a checklist on your profile, and a pointer on each section the first time you open it.
• Jobs: post one in four answers, or paste a link and the form fills itself. Jobs posted here sit above the ones we collect.
• Games: filter by store, with a count on every option. Featured games go out on our Instagram, LinkedIn and Facebook with a trailer clip, and the studio hears about it.
• Events: a recurring series is one card, with a "Hide recurring" filter. Ticketing, reminders and time zones work for every event.
• Communities: organizers can claim and run their community's page. Pages take LinkedIn and YouTube links.
• Hebrew: the whole site has its own Hebrew address at /he.
• Discord: opt in to role pings for new jobs and events.
• Safety: a hate report now gets an outcome, and the reporter hears it.

Since the last update HaMashak grew into a home for Jewish game developers worldwide, and moved to its new domain, gamedev.co.il. Here is the gist of what's new.

🔔 Notifications

You will now know the moment something happens on your account, without chasing it:

• Comments and reactions on your content

• Updates on feature requests you posted

• Replies to team-join and ownership-claim requests

• Invites to join a studio or company

They show up in the bell on the site, and you can also get them as a private message on Discord (your choice). To keep things from getting noisy, comments and reactions are collected into one daily summary, and messages respect quiet hours and Shabbat in your own local time.

📅 Events

• Connect a calendar once (Google Calendar, Meetup or ICS) and events flow in automatically

• Add an event by pasting a link

• RSVP with your profile

• Free ticketing for events

• A calendar you can subscribe to that stays up to date, with filters by city and type

🤖 Discord bot

• Guided onboarding: name, studio, role, discipline, language and location

• Two-way sync between your site profile and Discord

• Subscribe to the events calendar with /subscribe

Activly working on the bot so you can use it on your own discord server!

🗺️ Cities and map

• City pages for every community hub

• An interactive map of members, studios and events

• Free-text location on your profile, any city in the world

🎮 Games

• Richer game pages: media, playable demo and store links

• Import a game from a Steam or itch link

• Automatic detection when a game releases

🌐 Automatic translation

• Site content is translated to the language you are browsing in

• Accurate language detection, even for text that mixes Hebrew and English

• Translated: events, community descriptions and reports

🛡️ Ownership and reporting

• Claim and manage your studio, community or game

• A dedicated path to report antisemitism in games, in partnership with the ADL

🏙️ City Guide

New city pages.

• Cities Page: Browse all cities in Israel, with official city emblems and member counts.

• City Page (/cities/:slug) - A dedicated page for each city, featuring a skyline image, statistics, and content organized into tabs (Members, Jobs, Companies, Events, Communities).

• 28+ cities are defined – with official icons and skyline images for each city.

• Navigation - Add a "Cities" link to the main menu and the mobile menu.

City links on the website.

• Clicking on a city name anywhere on the website will redirect you to that city's page.

• Integrated into 9 locations: Member card, Job posting card, Company profile card, Event card, Community card, Public profile, Event title, Job listing window, Event window.

🔧 Location filter fixes.

Updated services: Events, Communities, Jobs.

Missing cities.

• Haifa was missing from the list of cities.

• 26 additional cities, including:

  • Large cities: Pardes Hanna-Karkur, Gederah, Zichron Ya'akov, Shoham, Gan Yavne, Kadima-Tzoran,
    Kiryat Tivon, Daliyat al-Carmel, Binyamina-Giv'at Ada, Even Yehuda, Kfar Kana.

  • Prominent locations: Mitzpe Ramon, Ra'anana, Metulla, Caesarea, Atlit, Hatzor HaGalilit,
    Ushpia, Ramat Yishai, Kinneret, Nahalal, Ein Hod, Kfar Vradim, Kfar Tabor, Yesod HaMa'ala, Jiser
    A-Zarka, Ein Mahel.

Added.

• Full support for both Light Mode and Dark Mode across the entire platform.

• The logo and favicon automatically adjust to match the display mode.

• Approximately 85 component files have been updated to fully support both modes.

Improvements.

• The members page is being updated to use infinite scrolling. Instead of pagination buttons, additional members will automatically load as you scroll down.

• 12 servers are loaded each time to ensure a smooth and uninterrupted browsing experience.

• The search and filters automatically reset to the beginning of the list.

• All the solid colors (grays, whites) have been converted to dynamic design variables.

• Profile pages, feeds, events, games, articles, and communities all look great in both modes.