The Founder is a free game that lets you control your own startup
The Founder is a free game that lets you control your own startup
If you have ever dreamed of beginning your own startup and building the next Facebook or Google, now you can.
The Founder is a free to play browser-based game that lets you do just that.
You start by choosing a name for your company and deciding what kind of business you want to be in. Next, you pick the market you want to begin in, a co-founder, and you are good to go.
Next, you will need to hire employees and then develop new products and expand your company.
In the process, you will need to make money and keep your board of investors happy, which sounds very much like a startup in real life.
But more than just a game, The Founder was actually designed to highlight some of the absurdities that happen in Silicon Valley.
Developer and designer Francis Tseng, the man behind the game, said that the inspiration for the game was based on his own working experience in the Valley where he very quickly became jaded with what he saw happening.
Tseng said: "You have to keep expanding profit. As time goes on, it becomes harder and harder to do as you sort of saturate all the markets and you continue to try and build new products. But eventually, it becomes harder and harder to innovate. As you go further in the future, you get more and more of these crazy technologies, really futuristic ones. My hope is that at some point the player realizes, this is not a world I would want to live in."
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Source: The Founder via Fast Company