Business Sim
The Fall Season
Run an Austin mobile outdoor movie company through forty-two fall nights. Sell the shows, build the crew, and watch the sky.
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Games for people who’d notice if you got it wrong.
These are small browser games built around highly specific worlds and audiences: a Houston furniture shop, a San Antonio council district, a fraternity region, one suburban block, one iPod. Free to play from a link, no sign-up, phone or desktop. New to the idea? Read what a hyper-niche game is.
Selected Games
Worlds we’ve already made playable.
Congregations, chapter advising, family farms, stand-up rooms, city politics, obsolete hardware, and American literature. Each one built for the people who’d get it. Every game below has its own page; most play right here on the site, and a few live at their own addresses.
Work & Organizations
Jobs, businesses, campaigns, and crews—worlds that already run on schedules, margins, favors, and the cost of saying yes.
Business Sim
Business Sim
Houston Custom Wood Shop
You bought a Houston furniture shop for two dollars. Land the jobs, run the bench, and see whether there is a life left over.
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Business Sim
Walk-Ins Welcome
Run a Central Texas haircut salon: set the prices, staff the chairs, and turn one shop into a chain.
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Civic Sim
San Antonio City Council Campaign
Advise a first-time candidate through twelve weeks in San Antonio’s District 5. Three moves a week, one neighborhood at a time.
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Crime Sim
The Back Room
The boss is upstate on a federal case. Hold together a North Jersey crew for twenty weeks and the chair could become yours.
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Comedy Sim
Tough Crowd
Tour six cities with five bits a night. Read the room, survive the heckler, and make it to New York with your act intact.
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Training Sim
Good Standing
One season as a regional chapter advisor. Four chapters, one expansion group, eight fictional organizations, and a year built to test judgment.
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Community Sim
Jewish Community Simulator
Lead one fictional congregation for a Jewish year as the rabbi, cantor, education director, or office manager. Four movements, four places, one boiler.
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A block, a farm, a city, a device—specific places and moments handed back, playable.
Nostalgia
Wellsville
Five small games down one suburban block on the last afternoon of summer. A playable tribute to strange, sincere ’90s television.
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Farming Sim
Cucumber Patch
Run sixteen plots at Henderson Family Farms. Water, weed, pick before the crop goes soft, then seal it in brine.
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Adventure
Kotel Quest
Get lost in Jerusalem’s Old City through shuk stalls, strangers, wrong turns, and street cats, ending somewhere very quiet.
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Nostalgia
Sam’s iPod 2006
847 songs, a click wheel, and West Campus in 2006. Spin the wheel and see what loads.
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A book everyone in the room has read is a community too.
Literary
The Great Gatsby
A playable retelling of the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. You are Nick Carraway—West Egg, summer of 1922.
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Literary
The Sun Also Rises
You are Jake Barnes: newspaperman, veteran, aficionado. Paris to Pamplona with Hemingway’s lost generation.
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Literary
A Perfect Day for Bananafish
Salinger’s short story as a tiny arcade game. See more bananafish.
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