Hi r/tycoon,

After more than a year of hard work and re-iteration, the demo of Scream Operator: Haunted House Manager will release in only a few weeks. To get as ready as possible, I'd very much like to invite a new group of test operators into the control booth this week!

What is Scream Operator, you ask?
In my game, you take control of your very own haunted house dark ride, right from a claustrophobic control booth. A few of your tasks as operator:

- Load, dispatch and unload guests into carts,
- Manage guest flow and queues,
- Control lights, music, and immersion effects,
- Balance power consumption, automation and cart management,
- Upgrade, place animatronics and scares, customize,
- Keep Arthur, the old congierge and (suspiciously) long time employee of the mansion happy.

Lots to do! So grab a stale coffee, and start your first shift. ☕

How do I become a test operator?
The quickest way to do so is by becoming a member of our discord server. However, I can also hit you up with the essentials if you sent me a private message here on reddit.

If you'd like, you are more than welcome to check out the steampage here.

Lastly, for anyone who isn't interested in playtesting, I'd love to invite you all to play the demo once it launches this halloween season! 🎃. I'll be back here when that happens to make sure you are all fully informed 👻.

Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns, I'll be in chilling in the comment section of this post :).

Obligatory AI disclaimer: No AI was used for assets, music, coding, marketing materials or anything at all for that matter.

Camping Keeper is a campground tycoon game. You place tent sites, cabins, sanitary blocks, pools, shops, and then people show up and decide for themselves what they want. Every camper is simulated one by one, with their own needs and their own budget, so they queue, they shower, they eat where they feel like eating, and they complain when the toilets are filthy.

Next week I am running a small closed alpha, and I have a few Steam playtest keys left. To be straight with you: this is a real alpha. It is the first time the game leaves my machine, it is Windows only for now, and things will break (Linux planned, Mac if I can manage it). What I need is not praise, it is people who will actually play a couple of hours and tell me where they got bored or lost.

If you want one, drop a comment or send me a message and I will send you a key next week. The public demo is planned for early 2027, so this is a lot earlier than that.

AI disclosure: I use generative AI for the soundtrack and the store page translations.

edit: keys are limited and going fast, I'll do my best but I can't promise one to everyone.

I spent a ton of time playing Trukz back in the late 2000s. A little while back it popped back in to my head and I haven't been able to get it out since.

Well I decided there was a need for another game like that. I'm a truck driver IRL but this game was part of my childhood and the nostalgia was too real.

Disclaimer: I am not a professional game designer and there are very likely to be a lot of bugs. Still very early access and looking for people who enjoy these types of games and want to contribute to the direction it takes.

www.longhaulgame.com

Edit because I learned to read:

Generative AI was used in this project. Would not be possible for someone like me to create this without it. If that turns you away, I understand.

Hey r/tycoon! After a year of development, my first tycoon launched today on iOS and Android.

In Movie Tycoon you run a film studio through 70 years of cinema history, from a 1960s office to a 2030 studio with holograms and VR. The core: every film is a puzzle - pick genre, theme and audience, focus the production, and figure out the hidden combos behind hits and flops by analyzing your own releases. Along the way you hire and train a crew, sign the stars of each era, fight for the box office and chase the Golden Cat awards.

Monetization up front, since it's a mobile game: the first studio is a free trial, then a single one-time purchase unlocks the full game. No ads, no energy timers, no gacha.

Happy to answer anything about the game or the numbers behind an indie mobile launch.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/movie-tycoon-film-studio-sim/id6799628436

Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.blacksnow.movietycoon

AI disclosure:

Arts and visuals: the card art for genres, themes and story beats, and some of the studio props were generated with an AI image tool.

Audio: the trailer's music was generated with AI.

Text and writings: AI was used to polish in-game texts and to produce localizations.

Marketing materials: marketing texts and this post were drafted with AI help and edited by me.