Sell the night
Hold your rate against a low quote, or fold and teach the market that your prices are soft.
GAME DOSSIER · BUSINESS SIM · AUSTIN, TEXAS
You run an outdoor cinema company.
Twelve turns decide whether the fall calendar fills without breaking the crew or betting wrong on the weather.
ONE LINK◆NO ACCOUNT◆NO INSTALL◆BUILT FOR A SPECIFIC WORLD
An empty pool deck at six. Two hundred neighbors at eight.
What you are actually selling is not a movie. It is the few hours an ordinary shared space stops being a place people walk through.
Apartment communities book Fridays and Saturdays; breweries, congregations, schools, nonprofits, and campuses fill the weeknights. The people on the other side of those calls become the recurring cast.
The niche value is operating detail: event production, neighborhood gathering, weather judgment, and a small service business colliding in the same calendar.
The world supplies the mechanics.
The specificity is structural: it changes what the player can do, what each choice costs, and what the ending remembers.
Build capacity
Three crews cover about twenty-one shows; vans and screens define how much calendar you can sell.
Make the rain call
At 5:40pm a cell is forty miles out and two hundred chairs are filling. Choose with imperfect weather.
The calendar is the market.
Each turn is a two-week stretch with two moves plus a posture: hunt bigger deals, build the crew, coast to recover, or spend money being seen.
Oversell your people and the season starts breaking—double-booked nights, a transmission at 190,000 miles, or a host whose phone goes to voicemail before doors.
BEFORE YOU PLAY
Useful answers, no mystique.
Do I need outdoor-movie experience?
No. The operating facts arrive inside the decisions, not as a manual before play.
Can I fail?
Yes, gently. A lean season stings and teaches; every run reaches its calendar.
What does it need from my device?
Nothing beyond a browser. It saves nothing, asks for no permissions, and honors reduced-motion settings.
How does it end?
When the booking window opens, the relationships, crew, and nights you built are visible on one calendar. Four seasons are possible.
Why it belongs here.
This game demonstrates the studio’s central claim: a real place, practice, community, or text contains better game mechanics than a broad theme pasted on later.
For commissioned work, the game goes with the client.Studio originals remain ours. A commissioned client receives the whole commissioned game and a practical source handoff under the agreement. We keep pre-existing tools and generalized craft; confidential material and distinct client expression stay with the client. READ THE OWNERSHIP FAQ ↗
Other worlds on the shelf.
Follow the mechanics into another place, practice, memory, or shared text.
PLAY OR BUILD
Doors are in two hours. Check the radar.
The playable build is free. If this makes you think of a world only your people would recognize, that may be the next game.