Ship or Sink

Decision game for engineering managers in a Slack-inspired interface.

What's in it

• 32-week campaign split into 4 acts
• Escalating run pressure with accumulated costs and follow-ups
• Deck with 63+ cards
• Focus on people management, career, performance, on-call, alignment, architecture and internal politics
• Recurring arcs with characters randomized per run
• Each run activates a different subset of arcs
• Clear act curve: setup, alignment, politics and final trade-offs
• Short chat-style copy
• Origin selection before each run with unique starting bonus and passive
• Random perk draft at the start of acts 2, 3 and 4
• Score, best score and streak tracking
• Run save with manager name
• Local leaderboard with score, weeks survived and manager legacy
• Stakeholder thread with quick replies
• Language toggle between PT-BR and EN without resetting the run
• Hidden consequences in choices
• Ambiguous cards with current AI and startup themes
• Conditional follow-ups
• HUD with four metric bars
• Sidebar with score, status and reset
• Click and keyboard controls

How a run ends

• Game over when Team, Delivery, Trust or Budget reaches 0
• Victory when you survive all 32 weeks
• At the end you can save your manager name and register their legacy on the local leaderboard

How to run

Open index.html in the browser.

To serve via HTTP:

python3 -m http.server 8080

Then visit http://localhost:8080.