Still doesn’t screenshot very well, does it?
Developer Ger Kelly has been in touch to tell us about Hipster CEO 2, a sequel to his 2013 iOS business sim that he’s planning to release in February.
The original Hipster CEO had a cute idea at its core: it looked like a business productivity app and it basically was one — albeit for your fictional business. For me, its downfall was that it was too committed to the notion. You didn’t get very much feedback about why or how you were succeeding or failing, and the near-complete absence of graphics made Hipster CEO so bland that it was normcore before that was even a thing.
Kelly tells me that he’s taken a lot of that criticism on board: the new Hipster CEO 2 does indeed feature more art (“Getting back to my 8-bit roots!”) with a style heavily inspired by Nimblebit. There’s also “simplified and easier-to-understand gameplay”. But the biggest change is downright (forgive me) disruptive.
Hipster CEO 2 will sport online multiplayer, letting you invest in other people’s startups or attempt to sabotage them by poaching their staff or planting negative news stories in the press. Hipster CEO always ran in the background while you weren’t playing it, but now it will feel more like a slow-play multiplayer game akin to Subterfuge or Neptune’s Pride.
Watch for Hipster CEO 2 to hit iOS next month — in the meantime, there’s two more screenshots below.
Didn’t I see you guys in Pocket Planes?
Definitely not our most exciting screenshot this month.
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