ROAM - Road Machiners

A community-driven wasteland truck RPG and software factory.

In ROAM you drive an armed truck across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It's an immersive RPG sandbox: trade, scavenge ancient ruins, take jobs, rob other drivers or protect them. Inspired by Ex Machina, Space Rangers 2, Kenshi, Dustland Delivery and Caravaneer 2.

The software factory

Imagine you could play the game, leave a feature request and see it appear in a few days? We have that in ROAM.

ROAM is built in public by a software factory of AI coding agents.

1. Anyone can send a bug report or an idea from inside the game, or file a GitHub issue.
2. Agents triage each one. Bugs and small improvements go to work at once. A new feature goes to the Telegram channel as a proposal, and players vote on it with reactions.
3. Agents design, build and test the work. Players can play a voted feature's build and comment on it in the channel.
4. A human committee plays each result and approves or denies it.
5. Approved work goes to the dev build at once and ships to itch.io as a weekly release.
6. A Hermes agent manages the factory and fixes its failures.

Links

• Play the release on itch.io
• Play the dev build, which has every approved change before release.
• Factory dashboard
• Telegram channel
• File an idea

Layout

• game/ holds the game. Start with game/CLAUDE.md and game/docs/DESIGN.md.
• factory/ holds the factory. Start with factory/README.md.
• quality/ holds the pre-commit quality gate. See quality/README.md.

Run the game

cd game
npm ci
npm run dev

The game opens at http://localhost:5173.

Contribute

Run npm ci at the root. Then run npm run hooks:install from the main checkout.

License

ROAM is open source for non-commercial use. You can play, read, change and share it, but you cannot sell it or use it in a commercial product.

• The code is under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.
• The assets are under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Assets are art, 3D models, sound, music and game writing such as quests, lore and dialogue. Everything under game/public/ is an asset.
• Files that come with their own license file, like the dashboard fonts, keep their own license.