The Business: A Game To Surpass Battle Simulator

Alexander Macris has been working on an interesting project.

I'm actually being serious for once. It's in development. We have a playable low-rez alpha for mass combat. pic.twitter.com/hIE0t5ULl6

— Alexander Macris (@archon) July 5, 2025

This is a smart move.

First, you can get more eyeballs on the Tabletop version by showing a digital version. The conversion rates are low, but they are not trivial and it spreads awareness of the Brand outside the Tabletop ghetto. If you are at all interested in seriously competing with The Only Game That Matters as a business enterprise, breaking out of the ghetto is the first objective to achieve and nail down (followed by breeching the Normiespehre and getting your stuff shoved into their faces in Wal-Mart, et. al.).

"But why? You can just go to Amazon/DriveThru."

You vastly overestimate the Normie's willingness to go out of their way for anything, especially entertainment. Now couple that with algorthmic manipulation.

Note, I am not talking about active manipulation towards this or that. I am talking about the baseline function of the engine to remember your past performance requests and use those to curate search results accordingly; this is why (e.g.) if you binge-watch architectural education and critique videos for a weekend, your search results will fill up with more of the same until you change what you watch.

Normies do not know that this is how baseline search works. They will not randomly have ACKS videos served up to them; they have to actively seek it out, which means that they need a living man to get up in their faces (literally or figuratively) to tell them that ACKS exists and it would be of interest to them because otherwise they will never even think to look for it. (This is why all Fantastic Adventure Games are "D&D"; it's all they know.)

If this gets more eyeballs on ACKS, I'm for it. Simple as. Good luck!