City of Curiosity is my current project and extends experimentation work I did in ProtoCitySim prototype.
The goal of City of Curiosity is to create a simple future-sim idle game where players can build there own vision of a future city while playing with their friends. Players can work together to trade research and resources under a thriving collaborative economic system.
City of Curiosity is designed to be a Discord Activity, utilizing the platforms network connections to create unique gameplay experiences within 4 possible interaction points of the game.
Each type of interaction gives the player an opportunity to contribute into a larger group of players.
In developing City of Curiosity I used AI Agent coding tools along with custom MCPs I developed for:
Free Text to Speech & AI Voice Generator | ElevenLabs
These generative AI tools allowed a coding agent to create assets when needed for the project as agents implemented UI from the supplied documentation. A goal of learning these tools is to aid in the creation of user instructed generated content made through generative AI within the game. Players will be rewarded with the ability to change or add new content in the game.
Documentation was developed through a series audio recordings that I transcribed and fed into ChatGPT reasoning models to organize and discuss. With these back and forth dialogs I broke the project into 8 development phases:
- 1. Core Layout & Infrastructure (phase1-core-layout.md)
- 2. UI Components & Animation (phase2-ui-components.md)
- 3. Resource System (phase3-resource-system.md)
- 4. Building System (phase4-building-system.md)
- 5. Research & Progression (phase5-research.md)
- 6. Quest & Achievement (phase6-quests.md)
- 7. Shop & Premium (phase7-shop.md)
- 8. Final Polish (phase8-polish.md)
Each phase contains a complete design and task plan document. As progress in phases moves forward, I incorporate any changes to the docs through a dialog with an AI agent that will use the code base to answer questions and outline technical architecture and progress with mermaid charts.
Abstract menu systems were setup in Phase 2 while creating common components to be useable throughout the game.