Startup Tycoon: Deploy on Friday

Run a software studio. Win every sprint with cards. Time the market.

What is it?

Startup Tycoon is a roguelike deckbuilder meets office tycoon.

Every project is sprints, and every sprint is a short Slay the Spire style run: you play cards to finish tasks before their deadlines hit your team. Between runs, your 3D office keeps ticking in real time - people type, money comes in, competitors announce their products, and the market shifts under your feet.

Features

• Card combat against deadlines  Work, Defense, Skill, Power and Bug cards. Chew through tasks before the deadline crunches your sprint.
• A living low-poly office  watch your team work in real time, speed the clock up or pause it, and see sales roll in on live charts.
• Read the market  topic popularity moves in waves. Analysts give a forecast, but not a perfect one. Aim your release at the peak and dodge crowded launches.
• Grow your studio hire people who add skills and cards to your deck, research new topics, take freelance gigs, and keep the bank account out of the red (or it's game over).
• English & Russian, desktop & mobile switch language in the menu next to the mute button; touch controls work in landscape on phones and tablets.

How to play

Goal: release products that sell, level up the studio, and don't go bankrupt.

1. Pick a sphere, a topic (check the popularity forecast!) and a scale.
2. Start a sprint: walk the map (two lanes, 3 steps and a boss) through tasks, events and a retro.
3. In a task fight, spend energy on cards, then end the turn - the task hits your sprint with its deadline. Defense absorbs it.
4. After four sprints, your product launches: critics review it and sales roll in over ~20 weeks.
5. Spend the income on people, research and bigger projects.

Early release - your feedback matters!

• This is an early version and balance is very much a work in progress. If something is too easy, too hard, confusing or broken - tell me in the comments. 
• Which topic made you the most money? 
• What did the tutorial fail to explain? Every note helps.