{
  "title": "Side Quest City — An Adult Life Game That Refuses to Rank You",
  "slug": "sidequestcity",
  "production_url": "https://sidequestcity.sahilverse.online/",
  "project_type": "interactive-fictional-life-simulator",
  "summary": "A fictional adult-day simulator with six composite residents, branching side quests, deterministic interruptions, an alternate-day replay, a text-first mode, essays and a printable handbook. No ranking, diagnosis, or prediction.",
  "original_theme": "How might a life simulator reveal the limits of dashboards, optimisation and universal success scores?",
  "public_privacy_policy": "Only authored PUBLIC and FICTIONAL material appears. No private HQ data. Saved fictional play and preferences use optional local browser storage. There is no signup, tracking, profile inference, analytics, or data upload; export may be shared only by the visitor.",
  "content_labels": ["PUBLIC", "FICTIONAL"],
  "canonical_creator_url": "https://sahiltayal.com/",
  "editorial_entrance_url": "https://sahilverse.online/",
  "curated_related_works": [
    {"url":"https://sahiltayal.com/","title":"The central Sahilverse","why":"Canonical creator entrance and wider map of published ideas.","verified_at_or_status":"opened via web on 2026-10-26"},
    {"url":"https://scoreboard.sahiltayal.com/","title":"Who taught me what success means?","why":"Challenges the habit of making an incomplete external metric into a verdict on a life.","verified_at_or_status":"opened via web on 2026-10-26"},
    {"url":"https://ordinarytuesday.sahiltayal.com/","title":"Ordinary Tuesday","why":"A separate friction thought experiment about changing conditions, not judging people.","verified_at_or_status":"opened via web on 2026-10-26"},
    {"url":"https://identityaction.sahiltayal.com/","title":"The Identity–Action Gap","why":"Research inquiry on why sincere identity and observable action can diverge.","verified_at_or_status":"opened via web on 2026-10-26"},
    {"url":"https://humancapital.sahiltayal.com/","title":"Human Capital for Humans","why":"Argues that people and capabilities should not be reduced to institutional output.","verified_at_or_status":"opened via web on 2026-10-26"},
    {"url":"https://offline.sahiltayal.com/","title":"Offline","why":"Reflection on personhood, privacy and the incomplete external view of others.","verified_at_or_status":"opened via web on 2026-10-26"},
    {"url":"https://education.sahiltayal.online/","title":"The Future of Education","why":"Human development beyond grades and employability.","verified_at_or_status":"opened via web on 2026-10-26"},
    {"url":"https://thankyouhiphop.sahiltayal.com/","title":"Thank You, Hip-Hop","why":"Published essay on music, memory, identity and craft; provides a neighbouring cultural lens.","verified_at_or_status":"opened via web on 2026-10-26"},
    {"url":"https://sahilverse.online/paths/","title":"Sahilverse experimental entrance","why":"A way to explore other ideas as interactive experiences rather than mirror this project.","verified_at_or_status":"opened via web on 2026-10-26; the root and /atlas/ were not accessible through the same fetcher"}
  ],
  "pdf_url": "https://sidequestcity.sahilverse.online/downloads/side-quest-city-player-handbook.pdf",
  "date": "2026-10-26",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "deployment_status": "artifact ready; live hostname requires separate user deployment",
  "notes": "The public site does not authenticate, contact the private HQ, or update the canonical .com site automatically."
}