Fantastic Gaming Show is a gaming event built around tournaments and live entertainment for a Croatian and regional audience, and I designed and built the site that had to sell that energy before anyone walked through the door.
The brief
A gaming event site has one real job before the event date, make people want to show up, and one job during it, make people want to stay tuned in. The audience here is young, online, and used to slick production from streams and esports broadcasts, so a plain event page with a schedule and a ticket link was never going to cut it. The brief was bold and energetic, a site that felt like it belonged next to the tournaments and live entertainment it was promoting, not a corporate afterthought bolted on top.
What I built
I built the site on Next.js and TypeScript, deployed on Vercel, so it loads fast on the phones most of this audience will actually be using. That stack also meant the site could evolve quickly as the event brand itself took shape, no waiting on a CMS release cycle to change a headline or swap a visual.
The design leans into the bold, energetic direction the brand needed, strong visual hierarchy, motion and color doing the work that a wall of text can't, built to communicate "tournament, live show, worth your evening" at a glance. Everything on the page had to earn its place next to the actual draw of the event, the competitions and the live entertainment happening on stage.
Because the audience is Croatian and regional, the copy and tone had to read as local and current, not translated-corporate. That shaped layout decisions too, shorter blocks, clearer calls to action, nothing that made a visitor work to find what they came for: what's happening, when, and how to be there.
The result
Fantastic Gaming Show has a site that matches its own pitch, bold, energetic, built for a gaming crowd rather than adapted from a generic event template. It gives the tournaments and the live entertainment a digital stage that looks like it takes them as seriously as the people running them do.