Julia Sanfrancisco

Chase Julia and her accomplices across different countries, unraveling clues, solving puzzles, and expanding your geography knowledge in this exciting detective game.

🕹️ Play it now — 💻 Devlog on Discord & Twitter

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About the project

Julia Sanfrancisco is a clone of the 80s MS-DOS game Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?. This project is meant as a proof-of-concept for leveraging generative AI to create the game and it's assets.

Short-term roadmap

• Implement the game mechanics from the original game
• Generate updated clues for the cities featured in the original game
• Generate new artwork for the cities featured in the original game
• Implement a new mobile-based UI with improved UX

Follow the current progress here.

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Development

Current stack

• Written in Typescript using SvelteKit.
• There is no backend, the game runs entirely on the browser.
• Your name, score and current play session is stored locally on your device.
• Clues have been generated with OpenAI's GPT-4.
• Artwork was generated with Stable Diffusion using deliberate_v2.

Contribute

The game is currently open for contributions. If you want to help, please join the Discord server and/or check the issues for tasks that need to be done.

Environment setup

To run the development environment locally:

• Clone the repository.
• Copy .env.example and rename it to .env.
• Then run:

npm install

npm run start

To create a production version of the game:

npm run build

References

• Wikipedia: Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?