<?php
function add_overview_card($page, $title) {
[$background_colour, $text_colour] = page_colours($page);
$glyph_addr = match ($page) {
"benoit",
"pollex",
=> "/svg/glyph/" . $page . "Small.svg",
default => "/svg/glyph/" . $page . ".svg",
};
$card_style = "--backgroundColour: $background_colour; --textColour: $text_colour;";
echo <<<HTML
<a href="?p=$page" style="$card_style" title="$title">
<img alt="$page" src="$glyph_addr">
</a>
HTML;
}
?>
<?php add_heading("The future is now", "about"); ?>
<section>
<p><em>Achernar</em> is a European indie development studio based in the Capital Region of Denmark. 🇩🇰</p>
<br>
<p>We aim to develop high-quality video games and software alike, and we believe that all technologies should be for humanity as a whole. We therefore publish all relevant source code for our products.</p>
<br>
<p class="note">See footer for contact information.</p>
</section>
<?php add_heading("Projects", "projects"); ?>
<section class="fullWidth">
<p>The following is a list of our current projects. Click on a card to view the project's page.</p>
<br>
<p class="note">Scroll <a href="#anchor.vision">down</a> for more information about us.</p>
<br>
<div id="overview">
<?php
add_overview_card("agbsum", "agbsum");
add_overview_card("ax", "AX");
//add_overview_card("backspace", "Backspace");
add_overview_card("benoit", "Benoit");
add_overview_card("bowshock", "Bowshock");
add_overview_card("bzipper", "Bzipper");
//add_overview_card("deltaWorld", "Delta·World");
add_overview_card("dux", "Dux");
add_overview_card("eas", "eAS");
add_overview_card("luma", "Luma");
add_overview_card("pollex", "Pollex");
add_overview_card("u8c", "u8c");
?>
</div>
</section>
<?php add_heading("Vision", "vision"); ?>
<section>
<p>The goal of Achernar is to promote modern and robust software for everyone. In other words, our vision is to develop a human and clean industry and community for technology.</p>
<br>
<p>We believe in a society free of patents, and as such we release our scientific software in open-source form. For our games, we try to keep the base engine as open as possible whilst still keeping in mind that they yield our main income.</p>
</section>
<?php add_heading("Roadmap", "roadmap"); ?>
<section>
<p>Currently, the following tasks are our highest priorities (in order of decreasing priority):</p>
<br>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Implement derive macros for the <code>Serialise</code> and <code>Deserialise</code> traits in <a href="?p=bzipper">bzipper</a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Develop <a href="?p=bowshock">Bowshock</a> to a semi-playable state and begin marketing hereof</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Implement the graphical front-end (<code>benoit-cli</code>) for <a href="?p=benoit">Benoit</a><a></a></p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<p>The following additional goals denote company objectives:</p>
<br>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Complete the webservice before <strong>autumn, 2024</strong></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Release our first game by <strong>2024</strong>, as well as company merchandise in some form</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Release early-access for Bowshock (on Steam) by <strong>2025</strong></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Restructure to a normal sole proprietorship <strong>sometime</strong></p>
</li>
</ul>
<br>
<p>These roadmaps are, however, also subject to change, altough we do strive to fullfil our goals.</p>
</section>
<?php add_heading("Team", "team"); ?>
<section>
<p>As Achernar is currently registered as a PMV (lesser sole proprietorship), Gabriel Bjørnager Jensen is currently our only member.</p>
</section>
<?php add_heading("Inception", "inception"); ?>
<section>
<p><em>Achernar</em> was incorporated on the first july of 2024 by current sole proprietor Gabriel Bjørnager Jensen.</p>
<br>
<p>Our first domain – <code>achernar.dk</code> – was already registered in the winter of 2021, at that time being used for hosting on-line source code repositories. This was, however, quickly outsourced to <code><a href="https://mandelbrot.dk">mandelbrot.dk</a></code> after I had managed to secure that domain.</p>
<br>
<p><code>achernar.dk</code> was then, in the mean time, used for hosting a few look-up references. This mostly served as my own notes for school – mainly mathematics, physics, and chemistry – but quickly grew unorganised and unmaintained, although I did have plans to expand the encyclopedia.</p>
<br>
<p>The idea of a company had started in the spring of 2020. At that time it would've been named after the binary system Sheliak (Bayer: <code>β Lyræ</code>). But it was this idea that evolved into “Achernar.”</p>
<br>
<p>Shortly after being incorporated, we registered the domain <code>achernar.io</code>. At that time, we also set up mail services using our domain.</p>
</section>
<?php add_heading("Credits", "credits"); ?>
<section class="fullWidth">
<p>Thanks to <strong>Nicolas Gallagher</strong> for the <a href="https://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/">Normalize.css</a> stylesheet. Additionally thanks to the following creators for the fonts which we use on our website:</p>
<br>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Carrois Apostrophe: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Fira+Mono/"><strong style="font-family: Fira Mono;">Fira Mono</strong></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Roman Shamin & the “people” at Evil Martians 👽: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Martian+Mono/"><strong style="font-family: Martian Mono;">Martian Mono</strong></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Sorkin Type: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Merriweather/"><strong style="font-family: Merriweather;">Merriweather</strong></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Julieta Ulanovsky, Sol Matas, Juan Pablo del Peral, and Jacques Le Bailly: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Montserrat/"><strong style="font-family: Montserrat;">Montserrat</strong></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Claus Eggers Sørensen: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Playfair+Display/"><strong style="font-family: Playfair Display;">Playfair Display</strong></a></p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Matt McInerney, Pablo Impallari, and Rodrigo Fuenzalida: <a href="https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Raleway/"><strong style="font-family: Raleway;">Raleway</strong></a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</section>
