The Great Taxi Assignment: Vibe City

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The Great Taxi Assignment: Vibe City is a short, free driving game that runs in the browser. You play a cab driver in Vibe City, a sun-soaked, palm-lined city drenched in 80s neon. You find a passenger, pick them up and race them to their destination on the minimap before the timer runs out. It suits anyone who wants a few minutes of arcade driving with a retro soundtrack, and builders who want to see how far an AI-assisted solo project can go in a weekend. It won the Gold prize, worth $10,000, at the first Vibe Jam in 2025. That was Pieter Levels' game jam for games whose code is mostly written by AI, judged by Andrej Karpathy among others, and it drew more than 1,000 entries. The credits screen is unusually open about how it was made. Software engineer Tomáš Bencko built it in about 60 hours, and 99% of the code was generated with Cursor and Claude Sonnet 3.7. The 2D art was made with GPT-4o, the music with Suno and the sound effects with ElevenLabs. The low-poly Three.js city, its billboards and the tongue-in-cheek GTA-style logo give it a cohesive identity that many jam games lack. Highlights: • Pick-up-and-deliver taxi missions against a countdown timer • Open low-poly city with palm trees, billboards and an 80s sunset palette • Minimap with passenger and destination markers • Synthwave soundtrack and sound effects that can each be turned off • Simple keyboard controls: WASD or the arrow keys to drive, Space to brake • Runs instantly in a desktop browser with no install The game is completely free, with no ads or purchases. It is built for desktop browsers with a keyboard and is not designed for phones. The source code is not published.

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