Apartmenthood
A building is a kind of community.
Tenants, visitors, days, a tower.
A simulation in development.
The Project
Apartmenthood
A space to experiment with what a tower simulation can be. Tenants and flow at the core; a building that holds itself together, or doesn't. Each version peels back a little more of what's possible.
Inspired by Sim Tower, Will Wright's whole catalogue, Project Highrise, Mini Metro, and the long quiet tradition of games where a system breathes on its own and you're invited to lean in.
The score is called Standing — it rises when the people inside are doing alright. The building has 15 floors, two elevator shafts, a staircase, and a steady rhythm. Beyond that: traits, moods, events, time of day, and more to come.
The Maker
Micro
Jared Kuvent — creative technologist, photographer, and lifelong tinkerer. Building Apartmenthood from a desk in Maine, slowly, the way the best games tend to want to be built.
He's been making things on computers since the days when "computer" still mostly meant a beige box under a desk. Slow simulations are the ones he keeps coming back to.
Versions of Apartmenthood
A work in progress. Things will move around, break, and be rebuilt. Open with curiosity.
Shipped so far
- Map view system with overlays for mood, density, flow, and more
- An expanded music library
Coming next
- Two-tier agent visuals — silhouettes at higher zoom
- Agent identifiability — search, follow, larger hit targets
- Build & management mechanics
The first version that's a game — a building you watch hold itself together, with the start of moods, traits, and time of day.
- 15 floors, two elevator shafts with four cabs each, a staircase
- Drafting-paper aesthetic with a section view of the whole tower
- Day/night sky with rising sun and crescent moon
- Residents, visitors, and rotating tenants with daily lives
- Smart elevator dispatcher with per-shaft cab coordination
- Standing score, traits, held items, character fragments
- Newsfeed for moments worth noticing
- Music, ambient beds, and a tunable audio mix
- Live admin controls for simulation parameters
- Sim speed buttons for stress-testing the building
The original prototype — a small four-floor tower with a single elevator and dots walking through. Where the idea started.
- 4 floors, 1 elevator, 1 staircase
- Dots walk floors and ride the cab
- Hover popovers for tenants
- Flow overlay (press F) showing where people go
- First pass at music and ambient sound