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The Academy

A GED-focused academic RPG wrapped in a retro CRT desktop metaphor. Players pick starter perks and traits, then study, take assignments, and progress through a simulated 1980s-style institutional operating system — complete with windows, apps, and a taskbar rendered in phosphor green.

An AI description engine enriches the text adventure's flavor text, and a companion Android/Expo app brings the whole experience to mobile with a fully offline-first game engine.

Features

Retro CRT desktop OS — boot screen, draggable windows, taskbar, and a period-accurate terminal aesthetic (Space Mono, phosphor-green palette)
GED curriculum gameplay — study and quiz across math, language arts, science, and social studies
Character progression — starter perks/traits, stats, and study history
NPC dialogue — tone-aware conversations with faculty and students
AI description engine — server-side OpenAI endpoint enhances location and object descriptions ("Location" and "Examine" modes), with client-side caching
Offline-first mobile companion — the Expo app plays fully offline via a deterministic on-device engine, and enriches responses with the live AI when online

Project structure

This is a pnpm multi-artifact monorepo:

Path	Description
`artifacts/academy/`	Web frontend (React + Vite + wouter), served at `/`
`artifacts/academy-mobile/`	Android/iOS companion app (Expo + expo-router), offline-first
`artifacts/api-server/`	Express 5 backend, served at `/api`
`lib/db/`	Drizzle ORM schema for PostgreSQL
`artifacts/academy/src/shared/`	Shared game modules (schema, perks, stats, curriculum, content packs)

Tech stack

Runtime: Node.js 24, TypeScript 5.9, pnpm workspaces
Web: React, Vite, wouter, Radix UI
Mobile: Expo, expo-router, React Native
API: Express 5, Zod validation, Orval OpenAPI codegen
Database: PostgreSQL + Drizzle ORM
AI: OpenAI (gpt-5-mini) for description enrichment

Getting started

Prerequisites

Node.js 24+
pnpm 10+
A PostgreSQL database

Setup

pnpm install

Required environment variables:

DATABASE_URL — Postgres connection string

Development

# API server (port 5000)
pnpm --filter @workspace/api-server run dev

# Web frontend
pnpm --filter @workspace/academy run dev

# Mobile app (Expo)
pnpm --filter @workspace/academy-mobile run dev

Other commands

pnpm run typecheck                                  # typecheck all packages
pnpm run build                                      # typecheck + build everything
pnpm --filter @workspace/api-spec run codegen       # regenerate API hooks/Zod schemas from OpenAPI
pnpm --filter @workspace/db run push                # push DB schema changes (dev only)

Building an Android APK

The mobile app ships with an EAS build config (artifacts/academy-mobile/eas.json). With an Expo account:

cd artifacts/academy-mobile
pnpm run release:preview

The preview profile produces an installable .apk; the production profile produces a Play Store app bundle. These release commands verify the published API health and AI enrichment endpoint before starting EAS.