PM Mayors' Business Wars

PM Mayors' Business Wars is an interactive Taiwan entrepreneurship simulation game that lets players build and manage a business across eight years and 32 quarters. Choose from five business lanes, compete against AI-driven rivals, make strategic quarterly decisions, manage cash flow, talent, market share and expansion, and discover one of multiple business endings through an immersive 3D sandbox experience.

Overview

PM Mayors' Business Wars is a browser-based entrepreneurship and business strategy simulation designed around the realities of operating a business in Taiwan.

Players select a business lane, build their own founder profile, allocate capabilities, compete against AI-controlled rivals, and make quarterly decisions across an eight-year simulation.

The game combines business strategy, financial thinking, market competition, gamification, and interactive 3D visualization into a classroom-friendly learning experience.

Five Business Lanes

Players can choose from five different business models:

Bubble Tea
Coffee Shop
Brunch Restaurant
E-commerce Brand
B2B SaaS

Each lane has different cost structures, customer behavior, channels, seasonality and competitive dynamics.

32-Quarter Business Simulation

The game runs for 8 years / 32 quarters.

Every quarter presents a new decision card that may involve:

Business strategy
Store expansion
Delivery platforms
Seasonal campaigns
AI adoption
Talent investment
Competitor actions
Cost increases
Acquisition offers
IPO opportunities
Business crises

Players must balance growth with cash flow, profitability and organizational sustainability.

AI Competitors

Each game includes four different competitor personalities:

Price Aggressor
Expansion Maniac
Copycat
Premium Player

Their behavior changes the competitive landscape and forces players to continuously adapt their strategy.

3D Business Sandbox

The project includes an interactive 3D sandbox built with Three.js and React Three Fiber.

The sandbox visualizes:

Stores
Customers
Coins
Business growth
Quarterly profit and loss
Seasonal conditions
Market activity

Players can drag and zoom the 3D scene on mobile devices.

If WebGL is unavailable, the game automatically falls back to a 2D grid view.

Realistic Taiwan Business Conditions

The simulation incorporates several real-world structural challenges:

Seasonal demand
New-store honeymoon effects
Increasing competition
Rising rent
Labor costs
Platform commissions
Marketing expenses

The game is designed so that failure is possible and meaningful, rather than being purely luck-based.

Gamification

The experience includes:

Profit streaks
15 unlockable badges
Board objectives
Toast notifications and celebration effects
Quarterly visual feedback
Business performance cards

Multiple Endings

The game includes:

12 business endings
7 boss archetypes

At the end of the simulation, the game calculates the player's estimated "Boss Net Worth" based on equity value and accumulated salary.

Players can also generate a result card and share a replay link.

Deterministic Replay System

The simulation engine is deterministic.

The same:

Seed
Business setup
Player attributes
Decisions

will always produce the same result.

A short replay URL packages the entire game configuration and allows classmates or participants to reproduce the same business journey.

Bilingual Support

The game supports:

Traditional Chinese
English

The localization system dynamically converts financial values and generated game text for each language.

Technology Stack

Next.js 14
React 18
Three.js
React Three Fiber
React Three Drei
JavaScript
Vercel
WebGL
Responsive Web Design

Deployment

The project is designed for direct deployment on Vercel.

No backend or database is required.