Scoop Empire

Prospectus

Run your own ice cream shop and grow it into an empire! Serve customers, collect cash, unlock new rooms, hire staff, research new flavors and serve cars at the drive-thru. Open a sidewalk café, grab floating power-ups like Speed Shoes, Cash Magnet and Turbo Machines, and meet the travelling Trader and Supplier for surprise deals. Travel across 5 worlds, from Sunny Town to Fun Park, each with its own menu, and climb the global leaderboard!

How it plays

Goal: build the biggest ice cream empire and unlock all 5 worlds. Move with WASD / arrow keys, or drag on the screen (mobile). 1. Pick up ice cream from a machine and drop it on the counter. 2. Stand at the register to serve customers, then collect your cash. 3. Stand on a price tile to unlock machines, tables, rooms and staff. 4. Clean dirty tables and throw trash or extra items in the bin. 5. Walk into floating power-ups for timed boosts, and visit the Trader by the door and the Supplier by the drive-thru for special deals. 6. Unlock "Next Location" to travel to a new world. Mouse wheel / pinch to zoom. Press the trophy button to see the leaderboard.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a flexible screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. It adjusts itself to upright and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all present it properly. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for simulation holdings

• Learn the loop before optimising it. Every simulation is a circle — earn, spend, expand, earn more — and the players who last are the ones who found the circle's slow point early.
• Watch one full cycle without touching anything. A simulation confesses its priorities when left alone: whatever runs out first is what the designer wants you managing.
• Small inefficiencies compound faster than big ones. A route that wastes ten seconds every cycle costs more than a disaster that happens once, so audit the routine before the dramatic.

Scoop Empire — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open Scoop Empire?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is Scoop Empire, exactly?

We file it on the Simulation shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play Scoop Empire on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. It adjusts itself to upright and wide screens alike, so phone, tablet and desktop all present it properly.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. Scoop Empire is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Simulation shelf is one click away — The ledger's main hall: 302 simulations of everything from bus routes to burger counters to entire small lives. If it can be run, staffed, watered or worried over, somebody has simulated it and filed it here.