On December 27th, Alina Digital, a indie Canadian game development company announced that Rise of the Tycoon has entered open beta. ROTT is a MMORPG/RTS that simulates business and political life in the United States. It’s a free to play game where you’ll join as a regular citizen that builds an individual career. The game will give you tools on how players can become rich and famous and it’s an individual choice of play, even allowing you to date other people.
The game features a huge maps that scales across 28 big cities. Travel time between the East to West coast in the slowest transportation takes up to 15 minutes in real time. Vote for your favorite politician, as you are able to help submit them for candidacy on regional and federal elections that allows all players to participate. Four different markets are accessible by business men allowing an easy system of operating a business without the complex micromanagement.
You’ll be able to make realistic connections between politics and business. From Governors to Presidents, you’ll be able to expand market capacity for business to operate in a light or heavy industry. Business can financially support politicians in the elections. Politicians will choose how to strategize for their political career. The more developed infrastructure and amount of completed political missions will increase your quality of life for a region and country. Citizens that have a higher quality of life will benefit twice as much as compared to citizens of a less developed country.