Town Hall Demo

TOWN HALL is a first-person game set at the last working desk in a town that is closing: one municipal building rendered in full 3D, one rubber stamp, and a queue of people who need something to be officially true. The mayor can't be reached and the council hasn't met in two years. The seal on your desk still works, which makes the town clerk the government.

The free demo puts you behind that desk: the people who come to the counter, the paper each of them needs made official, and the stamp that decides it.

The stamp

Permits, licenses, certificates of birth, death and ownership: each one is a claim until your stamp makes it a fact. Approve, and the town rearranges itself around your signature. Refuse, and the applicant goes home to the version of the town you chose for them.

Salary: late

Nobody is paying the building's heating either. A folded bill inside a folder is not called a bribe as long as nobody says the word. The town is small enough to remember every decision at the desk.

Ledgers, notes

The archive is built to be searched: ledgers, notes, the things people leave behind when they think an office is just an office.

Archive, lower level

Under the archive is a file about why this town emptied. Nobody asks you to read it. In the full game, the keys to it reach your desk one favor at a time.

Particulars

• A first-person 3D town you can walk, built around one municipal building.
  
• A stamp cannot be unpressed, and the town keeps the receipts.
  
• Fees, bribes and favors: every convenience has a price and a witness.
  
• No combat.
  
• Eleven languages.

TOWN HALL contains pre-generated AI content. Its environment art and character models are created with generative image and image-to-3D tools, composed, programmed and finished by hand; its store artwork comes from the same pipeline. Its narrative text is human–AI co-written and human-edited under the author's direction; the game design is the author's. Its music and sound are created with generative audio tools. No AI content is generated at runtime, and the game contains no AI-generated depictions of real people.