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Food Truck Park Tycoon

A cozy idle tycoon built as a road trip — and a reusable, dependency-free game engine underneath it.

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A cozy idle tycoon played as a road trip between towns: an isometric grid you build on, a 3-second tick economy, quests, research, named regulars and VIP gifts sent between players' parks. Only eight entities, because the save is JSON columns on one player-state row with a versioned one-time board-widen migration. Underneath sits a dependency-free, framework-free pure-JS tycoon kernel lifted out of the game and then proved generic by a second manifest for a different game that imports nothing but the kernel.

Data entities

What makes it work

The kernel is nine pure-JS modules with no imports outside its own directory, and its test suite asserts it reproduces the game's own logic exactly across 400 seeded boards — armed with a deliberately divergent manifest that must NOT match
A park you are not standing in fills a till at a fraction of the offline rate, not the live one, and a park with no usable timestamp earns nothing rather than guessing
The pan/zoom transform is held in a ref and written to the DOM imperatively so a 60fps drag never re-renders the ~300-node tile tree; a press under 6px stays a tap rather than a pan

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How it gets made

Nine parts, in the same order, every time.

Every build on this site comes out of the same structure, whether it is a game, a ledger or a suite of tools. The method is published in full, and so are the prompts I am allowed to publish.

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