Car Factory Director: Tycoon

A rented workshop. One hatchback, built by hand. $2M in the bank. Car Factory Director is a real-time tycoon game about building a car company, from a shed that hand-builds one model into a global group with plants abroad and a rival or two bought out along the way. Bodies roll from station to station, trucks leave with finished cars, and every decision shows up on the line. PICK YOUR HOME Start in Michigan, Coventry or Pune, each its own difficulty. Michigan has a huge home market, cheap fuel and buyers who pay well for something big. Coventry has high wages and tight emissions rules, but Europe is next door. Pune has thin margins and cheap labour, and enormous volume for a company that can build cheap and reliable. RUN THE LINE Press, body, paint, assembly and test. The line runs only as fast as its slowest station, so every upgrade moves the bottleneck somewhere new. Add shifts,…