aarons-portfolio

Aaronautics

Aaron’s personal portfolio — a spaceflight / mission-control themed, interactive website. Not a normal web page: a place you operate. Pick a ship, fly a top-down solar system where the sun is the mission statement, land on planets to open the portfolio’s sections, earn bounty, and find the secret planet.

Live: https://aselkridge.github.io/aarons-portfolio/docs/orbit/

What are the games and how do they play? Read docs/GAMES.md. Building on this project? Read docs/DESIGN-BRIEF.md first, then docs/orbit/HANDOFF.md (the always-current maintenance doc).

What’s here

Two playable experiences (both explained in docs/GAMES.md):

• Orbit (docs/orbit/) — the portfolio itself, played as a spaceship. Two full theme skins (Cowboy Bebop / The Expanse), asteroid combat with a bounty system, five painted planet scenes, achievements and rewards.
• The Coldest Call (docs/orbit/coldest-call/) — a 10–15 minute teaching game about go-to-market engineering: help a stranded astronaut introduce ice cream to a moon, on a budget of 100 credits. Reached through the AlphaForge station’s mission door, or directly at https://aselkridge.github.io/aarons-portfolio/docs/orbit/coldest-call/

Structure

• docs/ — the live site (GitHub Pages serves this) + the project’s memory:
  • docs/GAMES.md — reader-facing explanation of both games.
  • docs/DESIGN-BRIEF.md — permanent design memory and decisions.
  • docs/orbit/HANDOFF.md — rewritten every shipment: file map, known issues, roadmap.
  • docs/assets/fonts/ — all fonts, self-hosted (house rule: no CDNs).
• prototypes/ — the original self-contained HTML concept explorations that grew into the site (hero, mission control, the CSS-3D Walkman, type identity).