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CEO Simulator: Startup Edition
- code_martial 2y agoI can’t watch the tutorial because YouTube insists on a sign-in. -_-
- thih9 2y agoSame here. Opening the tutorial video directly [1] in a different browser and with clear cookies worked for me. I rarely see this login wall, usually it happens in combination with hn posts. [1]: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpE4wgQGnY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dSpE4wgQGnY
- thih9 2y agoIt’s hard to read cards on mobile. If I tap a card to read the full text, the card then covers other cards. If I tap on another card, it now covers the rest. And if I tap the original card to remember a detail from the description, this now plays the card. Edit: Looks like clicking anywhere else “deselects” the active cards - this way it is possible to read the description of all cards at any time without playing any.
- MIC132 2y agoYou can tap off of cards to shrink them back.
- 0wis 2y agoBut then you choose it. I misselected several times
- MIC132 2y agoWeird, I had no problems deselecting cards by just tapping off to the side. Usually bottom right.
- thih9 2y agoOn mobile screens the cards that were previously selected take a lot of space in the background; if you click that background card, intending to “deselect” the foreground card, then you suddenly play the background card. But yes, if you click anywhere else then all cards are deselected. Still, I find this very unintuitive.
- atorok 2y agoI changed the behavior now: tap and hold magnifies it and short tap select the card. At least with my fingers now I was able to avoid the mentioned side effects
- MIC132 2y agoYeah, the part where clicking a non-selected card can play it is very unintuitive. I was just remarking on the deselecting part, since I didn't have much trouble with it. Might vary per specific resolution/aspect ration.
- atorok 2y agoI modified the behaviour so that tap and hold will straighten the card and magnify it. When you release it just goes back to the original position. Short tap plays the card.
- yoyopa 2y ago[dead]
- ipnon 2y agoIt’s hard to believe you used to be able to get a normal job at a local company in your hometown and afford a house, car and children working 40 hours a week.
- tptacek 2y agoThis is what most homeowners do.
- DANmode 2y ago> Q: Is working overtime mandatory if I don't have enough hours? > A: No, overtime is optional and comes with risks to CEO Mental Health.
- hnthrow90348765 2y agoLike the game, it's still luck. You can luck out and get a 20 hr/week job writing simple code from home and coast.
- jjice 2y agoIt’s fully dependent on your hometown’s COL. my home town is a moderately sized, but mostly forgettable city in the eastern time zone. This is absolutely possible there if you’re in probably 80% of the suburbs, but you may struggle to be in the very nice few towns.
- dingnuts 2y ago[flagged]
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoThey say taxes were higher at the top end, might be worth a shot
- aprilthird2021 2y agoInstead multimillionaire property owners in California pay no property tax because they're old and people who just bought a house with young kids pay all the tax. Most regressive tax system ever devised, designed to keep us underpopulated and our government services underfunded
- mlna 2y agoGreat game. I love it so much.
- binbag 2y agoBrilliant. This is my life.
- atorok 2y agoAh this is a quote I was looking for :D
- saaaaaam 2y agoLove this. However, when I got a high score I appeared twice on the leader board for some reason. Another time I appeared just as “name” and my high score which would have put me at #1 at that point (12090!) didn’t get entered at all. I also got duplicate cards a few times - which might be intentional, but was a little annoying. Very addictive in a silly fun way. Well done :)
- atorok 2y agoLova your last comment :D I fixed the first issue: I got also an alert at the same time that I ran out of quota on the db so had to increase it. You should see your point now. The duplicate cards issue is strange.. I'll have to debug that a bit more
- ChosenEnd 2y agoSAM, I can see your score, I just dethroned you with 12280.
- saaaaaam 2y agoMONSTER! I will vanquish you when I have time from my actual job which startlingly resemble this.
- chelical 2y agoI also got a score that would have put me on the leaderboard, but the leaderboard did not update sadly.
- atorok 2y agoDid you check the console to see if there were any error messages?
- dijksterhuis 2y agoTech Debt score of +5 at the end. Is it obvious I'm a software engineer? bug notes - couple of times a card seemed to get magically selected for me, i've got "tapping = clicking" disabled on my trackpad, so not sure how those happened, hopefully was me fat fingering. usually i didn't even have time to see the new card though, which makes me think it might be some bug with noticing inputs? could be my fat fingers tho. - When I have spare meeting time left over, I was able to select an objective that had moved as a result of a card at the start of the day, could infinitely roll the dice with nothing happening. I could at least select a different objective to make things move forward tho.
- atorok 2y agoThanks, lol, you deserve a well-architected wink ;) Thanks for these bug reports, nice and detailed so I'll be able to find a fix for them
- pkkm 2y ago> I was able to select an objective that had moved as a result of a card at the start of the day, could infinitely roll the dice with nothing happening. Same bug here, in Firefox 128. Also, while we're making suggestions, would it be possible to replace the tutorial balloon boxes with something that's less in the way? I like built-in hints and don't want to turn them off, but sometimes they can be a bit annoying when they cover up parts of the game UI. I would prefer some kind of animated glow behind the parts of the game I'm supposed to click on (cards, bars, or the die) plus a statically positioned explanation box to the side or on the bottom. That would make the hints unobtrusive enough that there would be no need to provide an option to turn them off.
- thomasjudge 2y ago"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
- esafak 2y agoSome CEOs are clearly winning. Global thermonuclear war has not broken out yet either :)
- ilikehurdles 2y agoI played a card that said tech debt drops by 4 thinking it’s a good thing, but it knocked me out of the game
- alberth 2y agoI didn't understand how people were scoring so high until I saw in the Settings that you can increase the Working Hours to 24, and your Hand size to 10. The game immediately became less fun. I was able to max everything out in green in just a few days.
- gwerbret 2y ago"Note, modifying these settings means your score will not be added to the leaderboard!"
- KronisLV 2y agoIf you set the amount of working hours per day to 14, the game suddenly becomes easy. :')
- forty 2y agoWhy are the cards overlapping? There is enough space on my mobile screen to display them all if they were not tilt
- notnmeyer 2y agofun game, but annoying to read the cards on mobile. would be nice to have an option to have them laid out without being fanned and overlapping
- Bjorkbat 2y agoRelated, if you like startup simulators, then you'll love The Founder (http://thefounder.biz/ http://thefounder.biz/). Incidentally Francis Tseng also worked on Half-Earth Socialism, which is also quite fun, and both games happen to be open-source (https://github.com/frnsys/ https://github.com/frnsys/)
- atorok 2y agoLol, thanks I'm trying them out!