Step into the shoes of a social media TikYouGram algorithm manager shaping the feeds of millions. To stay afloat and pay your rent, you face a daily choice: protect society’s sanity or fuel panic and toxicity to hit your corporate metrics.

Full Description 

You are an algorithm manager inside a massive social media corporation.

Every day, you receive a stream of posts. Your job is simple:

• Promote
• Restrict

But every decision affects millions.

Core Gameplay

Each day:

• Review 10 posts
• Decide what gets promoted
• Watch metrics change in real time
• Follow (or ignore) corporate orders

At the end of the day:

• Get paid
• Pay for rent, food and heating
• Survive

System You Control

Your choices constantly affect:

• User Engagement
• User Anxiety
• User Trust
• Your Income

The Conflict

There is no perfect decision:

• Promote toxic content → more engagement, more money, more damage
• Restrict it → healthier users, but worse metrics and lower income

To survive, you may have to make the wrong choice.

Corporate Pressure

Each day, you receive commands like:

• Increase engagement
• Suppress specific topics
• Promote selected content

Obey — or lose money.

Endings

Your actions shape the outcome:

• Become a perfect corporate worker
• Protect users and lose your job
• Break the system with pure optimization
• Trigger a user rebellion
  
• Push users too far — and watch them revolt against the platform
• Or simply try to stay human

The Point

The game is designed to make you realize:

"Sometimes, the system only works if you hurt people."

Git URL: https://git.kpi.fei.tuke.sk/ya778bf/gamejamhardc0de