How to Cult

A darkly comedic Godot game where you play a cult leader and recruit AI-driven, voiced stick-figure NPCs by actually talking to them. Grow from a shack in a small town to a nationwide secret society.

How this site works

Every page here is a markdown file in the docs/ folder of the GitHub repo. Edit the file (or ask your AI agent to), push, and the site updates in about a minute. The repo is always the source of truth.

Start here

• Game Design Document

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  What the game is: pitch, core loop, progression, tone.

• Task Board

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  What's being worked on now, next, and done.

• Open Questions

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  Design and tech questions we still need to settle.

• Decisions

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  What's already been decided, so nobody re-argues it.

Mechanics and systems

System	Status
NPCs, conversation and recruiting	Playable in npc-test
AI dialogue & persuasion	Playable in npc-test
Voices & text-to-speech	Basic voices working
Meters: Sanity, Public Image, Devotion	Designed, not built
World map & expansion	Being designed
Co-op	Idea stage

How we work

• Read Instructions for AI agents before using an agent on the repo.
• When something is decided, add a record under Decisions and update the matching system page.
• Log what you did at the top of the Dev Log.