this crazy idea
Posted May 29, 2023. Updated May 29, 2023. Played 2000 times for a total of 1013 hours.
description
hopeless startup simulator, made for the Profectus Creation Jam, and won first place... somehow??
Everybody has some great ideas for the future, but not everybody wants to do the work to get there.
"this crazy idea" puts you in the role of a programmer as their friends and family barrage them with startup ideas, that are all so mind-numbingly stupid that they're doomed to fail.
But... you're a nice person, right? You wouldn't say "no" to a good friend.
Or would you?
Can you break the cycle?
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I somehow clicked the option to say no, without buying the last upgrade.
well I Dont Have Any coding experiance! can you teach me how to put my Upgrade code in what file and in what Code? In Tree
developer response: I don't have the time to teach everyone who asks me how to code but there are plenty of high-quality free tutorials online
Can you add Post Game content after you say no to your good friend but your dfriend is now an enemy! and want to take you down! but you need to get Relation points to restore relaions with your friend once became enemy
developer response: i don't take suggestions for large swaths of content in my games, sorry! but if you want to make it yourself the game is open source ^_^
some of these names are weird af
WHY THE HELL DOES AWS COST $2,623,587?
developer response: AWS costs a lot of money :)
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It took me way too much time to realize that all you need to do is to ignore the marketing and dump all the code into features
why can i mail people pipebom b
developer response: a very persuasive way of getting them to use your product
340-0-300 with hackathons, spam pipe bombs, infinite run
The javascript alert whenever you go to begin a new startup takes you out of full screen every time. Very annoying
Extremely accurate portrayal of how startups work. 5/5