How to play · Trip City

How to play

Trip City is a procedural city sandbox. Every city grows from a seed — the same seed always builds the identical city — and everything you change is kept beside it. You can fly over it from overview and reshape it, or drop to the street as a citizen and walk, drive and ride what you built.

The tour — five minutes, nine chapters, one city

Trip City is a bare-bones work in progress — expect rough edges, missing features and the occasional oddity. But there is already a lot to explore: traffic that queues at real signals and roundabouts, citizens with daily schedules, bus lines you can draw yourself, gardens, minigame portals, shop missions, and road and district building straight from the overview. Poke at everything.

Nine short sections, in the order a new player meets them. Each one has its own address, so you can link straight to the bit you mean. There is no touch control yet — Trip City wants a keyboard and a mouse.

Chapters

Jump straight to a chapter. Each one also links from the section it belongs to.

0:24 Getting started 0:56 Overview & citizen 1:36 Architect mode 2:24 Building design 2:56 Buses 3:36 Missions 4:08 Portals 4:40 Cinematics

The tour

1 Getting Started The fork in the road — arrive in a finished city, or start from open ground and build the whole thing yourself.2 Overview and Citizen Modes Two ways to be in the same city: flying above it, and walking it. One key moves between them, instantly.3 Architect Mode The five tasks — Road builder, Planner, Demolition, Gardener, Builder — and what each one clicks on.4 Building Design Choosing what stands on a plot: the picker, its size controls, its architects and gardens, and the dice.5 Buses Two different things wearing one word: riding a bus, and drawing a bus line of your own.6 Game Missions Pizza Cat and Mister Trippy: take the wheel behind a shop counter, and keep the van.7 Portals The glowing arches at the city's edge, and the three small games behind them.8 Cinematics Let the game direct the camera, or record whatever you do next.9 Advanced: Importing Map Data A separate, optional mode that renders a real place from a GeoJSON export instead of generating a city.

Key reference

The defaults. Keys can be remapped in Settings → Controls in the game — this page always shows the standard layout.

`M` / `Tab`	switch overview ⇆ citizen
`W A S D`	pan the camera · walk · drive
`Q` / `E`	zoom (overview)
`Shift`	run
`Space`	jump · handbrake
`E`	enter / board / use whatever is in front of you — including taking and leaving a car
`C`	change camera view
`G`	greet
`B`	bus route overlay (overview)
`N`	end the mission you are on
`R`	record a video clip
`1` / `2` / `3`	drive / ride / follow a picked vehicle
`Esc`	step back out of anything