Stall Street (early)
Early play-test: run one little table at a 1980s small-town swap meet and grow it from 1 to 100, until you own the whole market. Cute on the outside, cutthroat underneath.
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Early play-test of a cute little game about cutthroat business. It's summer in a 1980s small town, and you run one card table in the back row of the church-lot swap meet. Out of every $100 spent at the market, $1 is spent at your table. Take it to 100.
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Each market day you set hand-lettered price tags, open up, and haggle with shoppers who come in three waves: early pickers, the main crowd and late bargain hunters. Then spend the evening in town at the bank, Town Hall or the hardware store. The Playbook holds real business-school moves with plain names: price tags on everything, $9.99 tags, a fancy decoy in the middle, cheap lemonade to pull a crowd, a better spot, punch cards, buying up the little guys, undercutting a rival and buying them out. Three rivals fight back: Sal the discount king, Walt with his antiques and Rosa with her farm produce. Squeeze too hard and the Market Commission writes, then fines you. Phones play in portrait or landscape. Placeholder art for now: hand-painted art is on the way.