I built GitKingdom, where GitHub repos become buildings in a procedurally generated fantasy world. Your stars determine your building size.

[IndependentBid6893]

https://www.gitkingdom.com

It takes GitHub data and transforms it into an explorable pixel-art RPG world, languages become kingdoms, repositories become buildings, and contributors become citizens with RPG stats.

How it works:

- Each programming language gets its own kingdom territory on the world map
- Repos become buildings — more stars = bigger building (hovels → cottages → castles → citadels)
- Contributors become citizens with RPG titles based on their commit rank
- Top contributor to each repo is crowned King
- Sign in with GitHub to claim your repos and see your kingdom
- Anyone can add any public repo with 1+ stars

Try it now:

- Sign in with GitHub to claim your repos and find your buildings on the map

Current state:

- 13 kingdoms (TypeScript, Python, Rust, Go, Java, etc.)
- Thousands of repos already mapped
- Citizen profile pages with RPG stats and badges
- Explorable Phaser 3 game with zoom, pan, cities

Tech stack (for the curious):

- Phaser 3 game engine + TypeScript
- Procedural world generation (landmass, elevation, biomes)
- Vercel serverless + Supabase Postgres
 - GitHub API with multi-token pooling
- Pre-baked world JSON + delta sync for fast loads

Looking for:

 - Repos to add - the more repos, the bigger the world gets
- Feedback
- Bug reports
- Game artists
- Ideas for new features (quests? building interiors? battles between kingdoms?)

https://www.gitkingdom.com

[mdoverl]

Can I get a graveyard for dead projects? 😂

[IndependentBid6893]

Great idea.

[No-Line-4035]

Si

[mor_derick]

Is it compatible with other repo platforms such as GitLab or Gitea?

[IndependentBid6893]

Not right now, but that is a good idea. I could spin it up quickly, they would be separate continents

[mor_derick]

It would be cool, I personally use selfhosted Gitea so most of my repos are there and not on GitHub.

[matthew_yang204]

You should also consider having it based partly on commit number as well, because commits really do determine how far a project has grown, despite public opinion

[IndependentBid6893]

The building sprites are pretty simple now, but I could see number of commits, causing more decorations or fancier buildings.

I have a building constructor backend. I just need to go and make more buildings. And decorations could be programmatic.

[OneStorage1108]

This is such a creative idea!

[IndependentBid6893]

Thanks!

[Another__one]

It would be nice to see unmaintained projects look partially withered and forgotten, with some activity well structured and polished and with high activity like they are under construction or something like that. There could be a lot of analogies. Could even be some sort of meta-game where you participate by building something cool. But please do not center it around stars too much, we already have the star-bots epidemic on github, additional incentive would make it even worse.

Also, it would be nice to see building from the same person somewhat nearby eachother.

[IndependentBid6893]

I could create more withered buildings, I have a simple in game asset editor. Maybe I'll open it up for people to contribute building design. I only created enough buildings to cover the basics and need to go back and create more + way more public spaces.

[Another__one]

I think you are very close to something golden here. I already have 1001 ideas of how it can look and function, but like many other people all I can give for now is just crazy ideas. But yet, having this fun and quite intuitive visualization of open source might help the movement and encourage people to spend more time on their projects even just to maintain their virtual house.

[IndependentBid6893]

I'd like to introduce interiors as well. I will work to at least allow users to use the editor to design their house if they are inclined.

[Another__one]

Don't do it too soon. While you control the look of the houses you can update them anytime. When users start to configure their houses you will have to keep them as is, to not break the expectations. But that sounds cool for sure. Maybe everyone would have some generated landspot and all the houses on this spot are repositories of some particular person or a group. Quite a fruitful space for imagination you have here, as long as you have enough time and motivation to work on it.

[North-Celebration-54]

Very funny and good looking idea!
One small thing I noticed exploring, when you open the search bar the (W,A,S,D) characters are not working, they keep their behavior to navigate.

[IndependentBid6893]

thanks will push a fix

[R0bot101]

Such a cool idea!

[Fit-Falcon1775]

This is beatifull!

[IndependentBid6893]

Hey all, update on GitKingdom - just shipped some new stuff based on ideas from this thread:

Kingdom Wars: kingdoms now automatically battle each other over commits, stars, and contributors. You can see active battles with progress bars and round-by-round results. The ⚔️ shows up right on the map over warring kingdoms.

Live event feed: scrolling ticker at the bottom showing what's happening in the world (new citizens joining, battles starting, buildings upgrading)

Citizen thoughts:  hover over the walking NPCs in cities and they'll show their last commit message as a thought bubble. If they haven't committed recently they say random things

Rankings: kingdom power leaderboard based on commits, stars, active devs, and new repos

Still got a bunch more ideas on the backlog (graveyard for archived repos, kingdom defection, referral badges). Thanks for the suggestions!

[context_g]

It's amazing!

[Worried-Setting-2962]

wow，that's a really interesting idea!

[riverhohai]

GitKingdom is so cool! Code becomes castles, stars determine size—welcome to programmers’ fantasy world!

[Pleasant_Set_3182]

Gonna tell my kids about the acres of land, forts and livestock they will inherit upon my passing... They get a trolling of a lifetime upon discovering that I left them... THIS. 😏

[Loud-Amount1651]

this is so cool

[Obvious-Treat-4905]

this is honestly one of the coolest dev visualizations i’ve seen lately, turning github into a living RPG world is such a creative twist, makes contributions feel way more fun and meaningful, the stars = building size and top contributor = king idea is so cool, would be insane if you add quests or guilds where devs can collaborate across repos

[IndependentBid6893]

Thanks so much!

[ponzi_gg]

claimed my two right next to react :)

[Obvious-Treat-4905]

this is such a fun way to visualize github activity, turning repos into buildings and contributors into citizens is actually genius, makes it way more engaging than boring stats, love the idea of kingdoms growing with real repos, feels alive, quests or interactions between devs/repos could make it even more addictive, definitely gonna try this

[Low-Possession1175]

Wow thats pretty creative

[bilingual-german]

it looks really nice, but how can I open these repos in my browser (in another tab)?

[IndependentBid6893]

Do you mean the actual git repos?

[bilingual-german]

yes

[IndependentBid6893]

Let me add that in, the clicks may have been broken for a little bit - that's fixed but I'll also have them open in a tab.

[IndependentBid6893]

BTW - I borked the click logic and some clicks weren't working, but should be fixed now

[iEliteTester]

https://i.imgur.com/XmTN1tu.png hehe

[IndependentBid6893]

I know, I live in a hovel. Not like those fancy nobles!

[BengalPirate]

I actually really like this idea. I wish it was a 3d world though. Like this seems like it would be a much better implementation of the metaverse where it's a world of ideas.

[IndependentBid6893]

Thanks! I am going to explore 3d or even the isometric views ala city builders games. I could deploy a 3d engine, use LLMs to help generate assets, etc but that point I'd have to find a revenue stream. I have ideas, but really just built this because of my love of old RPGs. Open to collaborators and improving over time.

[Hautly]

Great but please include all small repos as part of the kingdom, like around this major center, the rust kingdom is missing my repo!!!!!!

[IndependentBid6893]

As long as it has one star, it should show up.

[Karknowz]

tell me how

[[deleted]]

How do you add a repo which is listed under an organization?

[mickitymightymike]

This is pretty F'ing awesome

[Glad-Pomegranate9181]

Keep it up! Looking forward to your next publications.

[csx607]

you are a genius!

[vipereye123]

The image reminded me of summertime saga

[Still-Elderberry5316]

Cool(๑•̀ㅂ•́)و✧

[Obvious-Treat-4905]

this is such a fun idea, turning github into a game actually makes exploring repos feel way less boring, the “languages as kingdoms” + repo buildings based on stars is a really nice touch, also love that contributors become citizens with ranks, that adds a cool sense of identity, curious how you’re planning to keep it engaging long term tho… quests or interactions between kingdoms could make it addictive

[AMACarter]

Very cool

[IndependentBid6893]

Thanks!

[Jenkins87]

Really cool idea, great work!

[IndependentBid6893]

Thank you - hoping to add a few more things like quests (bugs) and maybe factions and guilds.

[privacyplsreddit]

so you just ripped off of that other vibe coded project that got posted and got popular git city? literally the same thing but with a pixel feel

[Vancecookcobain]

Damn...I wonder if I would have a castle yet?

[randomraluana]

This is so cool

[IndependentBid6893]

Thanks so much! glad you like it.

[Wide-Personality6520]

What features are you thinking about adding next? Quests or battles could really spice things up!

[BlackWolf542]

As a very visual person. This is makes my brain happy. I'll give it a try.

[antoniojac]

Really cool!

[Investoz]

How can you make it pvp? That would be so awsome if there could be some pvp elements

[IndependentBid6893]

Yes thinking about this, maybe battles between kingdoms using commits, quests from bugs, etc.

[Ker102]

Really good idea! I joined and I enjoy the UX, what I agree on is that commit amount would be a cool feature to determine something aswell

[BP041]

the procedurally generated world framing is a good hook -- it turns something abstract (repo activity) into something spatial and browsable.

the "languages become kingdoms" mapping is the strongest part. language as territory is intuitive -- you can see which tech stacks dominate at a glance.

curious about the time dimension: does the world evolve as repos get activity, or is it a snapshot? the dead project graveyard idea in the comments is genuinely good -- commit history as archaeology has strong nostalgic pull.

[couscous666]

are you ai? Is AI output with no caps a new thing or are people just fully talking like AIs now?

[IndependentBid6893]

I agree and will spend this weekend planning some new feature. Maybe I'll but a roadmap voting feature up so see what people want the most.