Stakeholders

Context for LLMs

Stakeholders (GSV-E2, pace-layer E) is a fictional universe and async-MMO city simulator in GSV's generative-games domain, built on the rule that lore is the source of truth and the software is generated from it. Its setting is a post-scarcity Los Angeles governed by biological (explicitly not supernatural) vampires operating through corporate protocols; the surface presentation is a warm, polished cozy life sim, while the systems underneath are not. The design intent is complicity rather than revelation — a player's ordinary, reasonable in-game actions are what prop up the underlying infrastructure, and tone erodes in response to what the player chooses to investigate or refuse, rather than unfolding on a fixed script. The core technical mechanism is a single canon directory of prose — world bible, character material, protocols, timeline, and short fiction — treated as the sole authority for the entire project. A world-data package parses that prose through Zod schemas into typed TypeScript, which three separate Next.js apps consume: the game itself (an async city/politics simulator), a public wiki, and an in-world FEED news network driven by player actions. A key architectural decision is that canon is deliberately kept out of JS-package form; world-data is the single bridge from prose to runtime, which is what prevents the comic, fiction, wiki, and game from drifting apart from one another over time. The repo is organized as a pnpm/Turborepo monorepo, and a fourth strand, "after-them," carries the comic/narrative work alongside an Expo iOS scaffold. Each game system is designed to map directly onto an underlying canon protocol (e.g., the Hemeline supply chain expressed as in-game resource flow) rather than merely narrating it. Stakeholders connects to after-them (the comic/narrative strand sharing its canon pipeline) and to Nartopo, and is referenced alongside elf-revel's 3-axis framework and shadow-work's 31-facet system in portfolio-level convergence discussions. Status: the canon-to-runtime pipeline (world-data, the three consuming apps, the monorepo structure) is an established architectural pattern within GSV's narrative-simulation cluster, with after-them's comic/Expo strand as an actively developing adjacent track.