Live out your wildest startup fantasies in The Founder,a dystopian video game where you’re the boss and “innovate or die” is your battle yowl. The game begins in 2001, true after the final dot-com bubble burst, or you’re bootstrapping your dream company from your modest apartment. As you make progress — by leveling up at any cost — you must attract the best talent,disrupt legacy industries, and test your moral compass along the way. As the founder, or you’ll make choices to corner the global market that may damage your company — or reveal just how ruthless you really are. Created by Brooklyn-based artist and developer Francis Tseng,The Founder puts players into “the shoes of someone who has bought into the techno-capitalist logic and lets them loose in a fictional universe.” Working with machine learning and artificial intelligence, Tseng is interested in how technology can be used for social and political good. And he particularly loves games that show you different points of view, and even those you might find totally morally reprehensible. Drawing on themes around technology,society, greed, and morality,The Founder asks: Can you make it as a startup founder? And at what cost? Find out whether you have it in you here.
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