A genreless transmission from deep space. The whole site is a spacecraft you pilot between galaxies, complete with a hidden star-shooting mini-game.
Lil Ayi Hit is a genreless artist whose latest EP, APHELION, leans into a retro space aesthetic. A flat link page would have undersold it. The idea was to make a site that felt like the record: a transmission from far out, something you travel through rather than scroll.
The cover art set the world. Retro green CRT terminal, Saturn, a flash of red glitter. We took that and turned the entire site into a spacecraft interface.
Direction: A phosphor-green CRT terminal on a deep-space void, with scanlines, a reticle cursor, a live HUD, and a red-glitter accent pulled straight from the EP cover. Jura for the letter-spaced display type, Space Mono for the interface and body. Eight design tokens hold the whole palette together, from the void background to the phosphor glow.
Five destinations: Bridge (the hero), Music (Spotify album and artist embeds), Video (the "CHARGE" video, produced by PAULO), Pilot (the bio, with a hand-rendered rotating Saturn), and Connect (socials). Navigating between them is not a page change, it is a jump.
System first: A dedicated Figma brand and style guide, six sections deep: cover, color system, typography, the A-mark logo usage, interface components, and motifs plus brand voice. The build follows the system, so the experience stays coherent no matter how playful it gets.
Warp drive: Every navigation transition fires a canvas warp-speed starfield, so moving around the site feels like jumping galaxies. The Pilot screen renders a rotating Saturn by hand. It is all canvas and vanilla JS, no heavy 3D library.
Hidden mini-game: The Bridge has a desktop-only easter egg, "STAR HUNT." An ENGAGE toggle arms a reticle star-shooter, targets warp toward the screen, you click to fire, a combo multiplier builds, and a draining shield ends the run, all scored with Web Audio blips. It is hidden on mobile so the core experience stays fast on a phone.
Shipped: Vanilla HTML, CSS, and JS, no build step. The GitHub repo auto-deploys to Vercel on every push to main. Live at lil-ayi-hit.vercel.app.
Interactive does not have to mean heavy. The challenge was building something genuinely immersive, with a game and animated transitions, while keeping it a single fast-loading page with no framework. The reward is a site fans actually play with instead of bouncing off.
Immersive, interactive, and still fast. If you want a site that does more than sit there, we should talk.