This is cute and fun, but if you made a startup simulator where you had a burn rate, dilution, term sheets and multiple rounds of funding... well, okay, let's face it, it would bore 99.99% of the world.
But it would be very educational and seriously useful to understand all this stuff on an intuitive level for us startup wannabes. Has that been done? It would be pretty cool, in a front-page-of-Hacker-News kind of way.
This baby is truly awesome. I just think things should be more balanced out; there are too many positive feedback mechanisms that make the game go bonkers.
I just kept buying PR people and raising money at bubble con without doing anything else... and made billions. Didn't do anything else except buy a couple superbowl ads to win the game!
But it would be very educational and seriously useful to understand all this stuff on an intuitive level for us startup wannabes. Has that been done? It would be pretty cool, in a front-page-of-Hacker-News kind of way.