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Hardware Tycoon
A browser game made in HTML5

In the last devlog, I mentioned an exciting future for the website. I'm happy to announce that the future is here - you can now make your own Hardware Tycoon account!
The website works but is not 100% complete, there is still a bit of work to do on the features that are in place. The experience is still subpar on mobile devices, so that's what I'll be trying to improve now.

Current features

User profiles

With descriptions that you can customize using markdown and a list of all your mods and mods that you've interacted with.

Mod browser

With filtering and sorting. A much better experience than anything before it.
I might redo this page in the future to allow for mod icons, short descriptions, and quicker downloads.

Donation page

With a pretty slider that dynamically shows the perks you'd receive for the given amount.

I made one mostly to avoid the ~50% tax I must bear on donations via itch.io (and it's not itch's fault!)

There are two tiers - a $2 one (to discourage small payments, since most of them go to the payment provider anyway) and a $15 one with new perks. Of course, the perks work backward, so if you've donated previously, let me know!


There's also a nicer help section with the F.A.Q. (woohoo)

Planned features

  • Mod comments
  • Online trivia quiz
  • Donation page PayPal integration
  • User profile and mod flagging
  • Leaderboard scores assigned to users & integration with the game


Well, I'm off to polishing the website up. See you in an update devlog about Hardware Tycoon 0.3 ðŸ¤ž

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