Build Your Empire
Start聽with聽a lemonade stand. End with a space corporation. Business Empire聽is聽an聽idle聽tycoon that聽grows with聽you聽across聽ten聽tiers of progression, each聽unlocking new mechanics聽and challenges.
Your聽businesses聽need employees, inventory, and space聽to聽operate. Hire聽workers to聽boost聽efficiency, but聽watch聽the聽payroll. Stock聽inventory聽before聽it聽runs聽out, or watch聽your income聽dry up. Rent commercial聽properties聽or聽face聽space聽penalties聽that聽eat聽into your聽margins. Random events will test聽your resilience: fires, theft, lawsuits, product聽recalls, and employee drama聽all chip聽away at poorly-managed empires. Insurance聽exists聽for聽a聽reason.
Financial聽Markets
At聽Tier聽2, the聽stock market opens. Two聽hundred companies聽across聽fifteen industries, each with procedurally generated names, tickers, and price聽histories. Stocks聽follow聽realistic聽patterns: moving聽averages, trend reversals, volatility tied to market聽cap. Industry聽ETFs let聽you bet on entire聽sectors, and holding聽shares聽in聽industries聽where聽you own聽businesses聽boosts your income.
At聽Tier聽4, options聽trading unlocks. Call聽and put contracts聽with聽Black-Scholes pricing, Greeks displayed for聽every position. Delta, gamma, theta, vega, rho, implied volatility. Expiration dates, strike聽prices, in-the-money indicators. The聽option聽chain聽updates聽live as stock聽prices move.
A simulated Federal Reserve holds聽bi-monthly聽FOMC meetings, adjusting interest rates based on economic indicators. Rate聽hikes hammer聽real聽estate and finance聽stocks. Cuts聽boost growth聽sectors. Your聽loan聽rates聽and savings聽yields聽fluctuate accordingly.
Banking聽and Credit
Savings accounts聽earn interest. Loans let聽you leverage聽your聽net聽worth to聽accelerate expansion. Your聽credit score builds聽over聽time based on payment聽history and debt聽ratios. Better聽credit means聽better rates.
Real聽Estate
Lease storefronts to avoid space penalties, or at聽Tier 5, buy聽properties outright. Rent them聽to other聽tenants for聽passive聽income. Zoning codes determine聽which聽business聽types聽can operate where.
Multiplayer
Host聽or聽join lobbies where聽all聽players share聽the same stock聽market. Prices聽update聽identically for聽everyone. Trade聽against聽each聽other in real-time. Play blackjack together聽in the聽casino. Disconnect聽and reconnect without聽losing progress.
Deterministic Saves
Save聽files聽store聽only聽your seed and actions, not the entire game state. Loading聽a save replays your complete聽history聽tick-by-tick, reconstructing your empire聽exactly as you聽left it. Compact聽files, perfect聽fidelity.
