OP here, we developed this game over the weekend for Toronto Game Jam and I thought the Hacker News community would appreciate the subject matter. There's a total of 7 endings and one involves getting acquired by Juicebook. See if you can figure it out :D
A couple nitpicks. It's stressful to land on a page with a countdown to start and no idea how it works or what I need to do. I couldn't scroll down to the instructions or forecast. Other than that the interface is pretty slick. Good luck!
I can't read the instructions either, and the keyboard shortcuts don't seem to work. Drag and drop is not efficient to continuous playing, so I quit...
Thanks, yeah. I had limited time for browser sizing during the jam but it does respond if you size down your browser a little bit to fit 1024 X 675 approximately.
FWIW - I did a lemonade stand as a kid and charged $.05 per glass. We (brothers/friends) would keep a jar with about $.75 in change on top of the table.
Everyone felt bad for us and tipped us $.25-5 per glass - avg tip was $1. We could not have charged $1 - we tested the price elasticity of demand. But, they felt terrible we never had any money in our jar.
Only seen the "pushed out by board" ending. Getting up to $4M valuation on some runs.
My gut level guess of the underlaying mechanic is your most popular activity becomes your ending and focusing most on sales results in "pushed out by board"
What I did was (roughly):
Left the price at $1.5 nearly the whole time. I dropped it down to .50 in the last sprint.
First 5 days researching to get PMF.
Next 15 day designing to get Award
11 days on sales, accepting everything (all 3 carts, salmon, rappers, etc.) but not the investors. I wanted the extra marketing/sales from the other things, not the money. Equity be damned! (Damn that "second life" cart, it steals m'equity! As does the salmon one too. You need all the equities for the Fruitbook ending.)
Next 8 days on development to get the drops
Then the last 17 day on marketing, always accepting the PR/video/etc throughout the whole time.
It will largely depend on the weather that last day, but this routine should give you a good deal of valuation each time. On my $788M run, the last day was 29c "sunny with clouds"
more business 101 - after showing initially good results and establishing confidence, drop your prices to unsustainable levels (i.e. $0) to drive growth and inflate your valuation, then make a swift exit. This strategy netted me ~$200k + $90m+ valuation.
pssssh I had $66k in cash and a $33 million valuation by basically randomly clicking and assigning things and never changing my price. Also accepting every popup offer that came along.
The name reminds me of an old apple 2 game called lemonade stand which was a simulation of an, wait for it, lemonade stand. It had random weather...I remember hoping for a heat wave in Lemonsville California.
I noticed that on one day my valuation can go from negative thousands to positive thousands and vice versa. So, what is better? Final cash or final valuation?
