Case study · Interactive · game engine
KARAR.EXE
A pixel-art campus you actually walk around, with the CV hidden inside mini-games. Built to prove a point about what a portfolio is allowed to be.
Posteroids built KARAR.EXE, a portfolio presented as a playable pixel-art campus. Instead of a scrolling page of project cards, the visitor walks a character around a small world where the CV, the projects and the skills are embedded in places and mini-games to be found. It exists to demonstrate that a portfolio site does not have to mean three cards and a PDF.
The argument
Every portfolio site in a given field looks like every other one, because they are all built from the same template logic: hero, three project cards, an about paragraph, a contact form. The result is that a portfolio — the one artefact whose entire job is to distinguish you — is the most homogeneous page on the internet.
KARAR.EXE takes the opposite position: the portfolio is itself the strongest work sample, so it should be the most interesting thing in the tab.
What was built
- A walkable campus in pixel art, rendered on a game engine in the browser — no download, no install, no plugin.
- Mini-games that contain the CV content, so reading it is something you do rather than something you endure.
- A boot sequence — KARAR_OS v1.0 initialising, mounting /dev/campus, loading a player profile — that sets the register before anything else loads.
- A real fallback: the content exists as text for anyone who cannot or does not want to play, because a portfolio that some visitors cannot read is a failed portfolio.
When this is the wrong idea
Most of the time. A game portfolio is right when your field rewards demonstrated technical range and playfulness, and wrong when your buyer wants to check a credential in forty seconds and leave. A corporate lawyer should not have this website.
The transferable point is smaller and applies to everyone: your portfolio should be built around your work and your buyer, which is precisely what a template cannot do. That is the case for a custom portfolio site, whether or not it involves a spaceship.
Where it is
- kh-stack.github.ioLive — play it
- Portfolio website design$600–$1,500 · 1–2 wks
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Last reviewed 2026-08-03 · Posteroids, Lahore, Pakistan · posteroids.official@gmail.com