The Founder

The Founder is a management simulation video game that takes our world, right after the last bubble burst, and plots out a possible, if exaggerated, trajectory. How is the promise of technology corrupted when businesses’ relentlessly growth-oriented and profit-seeking logic plays out to its conclusion? What does progress look like in a world obsessed with growth, as measured only by sheer economic output? Like any good power-fantasy game, you are at the center of it! The Founder puts players into the shoes of someone who has bought into techno-capitalist logic and lets them loose in a fictional universe. The player will be instrumental in the progression to an unsavory future; a progression which will feel disturbingly rational under the logic of the game. Winning in The Founder means shaping a world in which you are successful – at the expense of almost everyone else. The game will be available at a pay-what-you-want price (backers get in guilt-free) and will befor the web (supporting Firefox and Chrome, plus others if there is