You cycle along both sidewalks of Cedar Hollow, a leafy hillside suburb, throwing papers into subscribers' mailboxes as they light up while you steer around potholes, cars, neighbors and a dog that gives chase. A small radar shows the mailboxes coming up, and X lets you throw a paper at someone's window for a little mischief. The week runs from Monday to Sunday, one round each morning, and you can join the public leaderboard under a guest name with no email. Works on phones and computers.
How the creator made it
The creator says an early Fable attempt stalled, so they rewrote the brief for GPT-6 Astra using Paperboy as a reference and worked on the delivery mechanics before the final look. They had Astra write Python scripts that built the houses, trees and street props in Blender, using a mood board made with ChatGPT. For the rider, they generated a reference image in ChatGPT and a model in Meshy, then had Astra script Blender to simplify it, rig it and fit it to the bicycle. They reviewed renders of the rider in different poses and tested ideas such as a rainy day on separate branches. The creator reports about 1.6 billion tokens across the tracked work.
From their post on X ↗, another post on X ↗ and a page on paperroute.lol ↗.
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