Hi folks I have come up with a general concept of a game type I want to make but I don't have any experience writing ttrpg or tt game content, so I thought I could ask for some help.

Title : If You Want To Scramble An Egg... (You First Must Invent The Microwave)
Theme: Players compete to build up a civilization toward the sole and unifying focus of scrambling an egg inside a microwave.

I haven't gotten much further than this concept! I had a genuine appeal of utilizing a cribbage board (optionally) to track civilization progress, but I'm not married to anything. I also had some thoughts about having civilization energy/hunger/satiety, civilization discovery and invention as 2 separate mechanics. 

I'm open to any suggestions or any references to existing civ building games that might inspire some confidence in usability.
I was toying with either having the game be TTRPG focused with players describing their actions and creating their own content, or creating something more self-sustaining that wouldn't require a DM for a 2 player game. Like I said I'm not really married to anything but I know that the game has some appeal in terms of it's silly ideation. Thoughts?

My first thought here was “people scramble eggs in the microwave?”, but I Googled it and I see it’s a real thing, so thanks for teaching me something new :)

Honestly, I love the idea for this game - it’s a really interesting concept and should be a lot of fun to explore.

Gilbals had some great ideas here, and I’m going to offer my thoughts too.

Thinking in the framework of Roll Up!, I would picture something where players start with basic resources, and they have to come up with new inventions. They would need to use three stats to create things - maybe Strength, Wits and Finesse - and each type of item (maybe?) has a different difficulty level they need to roll against.

You can also have a table of complications - things like they lose access to some resources, their invention gets destroyed, something doesn’t work the way it should, or other things. Then those complications are introduced from time-to-time.

You could add a conflict layer to it, where players could try to steal from another player, and use the combat mechanics for rolls against each other.

That’s all vague ideas and they might not be what you’re thinking, or they might not work in practice, but I think it could be an interesting way to go with it.