You drive a boxy yellow cab through Vibe City, a low-poly beach town of palm trees, apartment blocks and billboards under an orange sunset sky. Passengers show up as blue dots on the minimap: pick one up and drop them at the marked destination before your timer runs out. Radio and music buttons sit in the corner. It took first place at Vibe Jam 2025, and its title and logo riff on Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, which the creator calls a tribute. Works on phones and computers.
How the creator made it
The creator says the jam build took 60 hours and that Cursor with Claude Sonnet 3.7 generated 99% of the code. They say it took four attempts to get driving physics they liked, after problems such as the car launching into the air when they alternated the gas and brake. They used GPT-4o for the 2D art and to come up with ideas for the roadside billboards. They made the music with Suno and streamed it from SoundCloud, then generated and tweaked the sound effects with ElevenLabs.
From their post on X ↗, a page on cassoviacode.com ↗ and a page on great-taxi-assignment.netlify.app ↗.
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