Lab 06

Lead Time

Turn one pencil into a Fortune 500 company.

Opening the books…

About

You make pencils in a garage. Price them too high and nobody buys; too low and you leave money on the table. Materials swing with the economy and the news, so buy when they're cheap. Spend profit on crews, machines, marketing and new regions, open an R&D lab, and climb toward number one. Play it as a dashboard, or watch the company grow on a pixel map as factories rise and new land opens up. That takes tens of hours, and the company keeps working while you're away.

Controls

Play as a dashboard (Text) or on a pixel map of your company (Immersive); switch any time
Everything is a button: make by hand, set prices, hire, buy and research
Hold a button to repeat it: keep sharpening, keep hiring, nudge a price
On the map: drag to pan, scroll to zoom, click a building to run it; arrow keys and + / − work too
Buy ×1, ×10, ×100 or Max sets how many each purchase buys
The game saves itself; Save gives you a code to carry the company to another browser

Play as a dashboard (Text) or on a pixel map of your company (Immersive); switch any time
Tap to make, hire, buy and research; press and hold to repeat
On the map: drag to pan, pinch to zoom, tap a building to run it
Buy ×1, ×10, ×100 or Max sets how many each purchase buys
The game saves itself; Save gives you a code to move the company to another device

Built with

React
Price-elastic demand
Offline catch-up
Code-drawn pixel art