Tech Frontiers

Opis w języku angielskim: When a scrappy team of engineers in a converted Bay-Area warehouse taped together the first prototype of a neural-accelerator chip, pundits wrote it off as pure garage myth-making. But venture cash soon flooded in, and four bleeding-edge arenas—advanced semiconductors, foundation AI models, service robotics, and precision pharmaceuticals—erupted into a global gold rush. Tariff shocks, export bans, and a rolling “capital winter” now batter founders who sprint between labs, factories, and pitch decks, knowing a single misstep can crown the next unicorn… or torch a dream before beta launch. Visionaries, growth hackers, and sharp-edged VCs swarm accelerator halls, vying to headline the next IPO ticker on Times Square. No Easy Venture is a mid-weight eurogame for 1–4 players (60–120 min) that puts you in the CEO seat of a high-tech start-up navigating this volatile landscape. Your aim: end the game with the most valuable equity stake—either by ringing the IPO bell or simply outlasting eight relentless funding years. How You Win Earn CEO wealth by filing patents, scaling product lines, capturing market share, and landing bigger funding rounds—all while guarding your voting control from dilution. Key Systems Global Event roll-and-reveal opens each round, sparking trade embargoes, deepening the capital freeze, or jolting IPO valuations. Multi-use Opportunity cards fuel the five core actions—R&D, Production, Sales, HR, Financing—forcing razor-sharp choices between breakthrough science, blitz marketing, and runway-saving layoffs. Asymmetric Founder Powers and Synergy tokens let you string compound combos: one lab success can snowball into a full-stack ecosystem if timed just right. Push financing too far and a hostile board shackles your vision; play it too safe and a cash-flow crunch will gut your roadmap. Talent raids, down-round negotiations, and side-channel sales keep table talk deliciously tense. The game ends when any player takes their company public or after eight rounds—whichever hits first. Highest CEO net worth wins, but every founder who steers their start-up through the storm earns bragging rights. Bootstrap from prototype to market-shaping titan—or watch your cap table evaporate in the crosswinds of modern innovation. The venture is yours… but it will be anything but easy. —description from the designer