Your first concert venue is a backyard. A small crowd starts to gather outside, and you've got three jobs before the show can begin. Sell the tickets, get people through the entrance and find them somewhere to sit.
Concert Empire: Idle Tycoon is an Android game from Orkaan Studio, the studio behind Kallitone. You start with a single backyard stage and grow it into a concert business that can put on shows in clubs, halls, arenas and stadiums.
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Start with the queue outside
Fans move through ticket sales, access and seating. You can watch the queues build and see where an upgrade would make a difference. Improve the ticket booth and you might find that the entrance is suddenly where everyone is waiting. Spend on seating and the crowd can move through that part of the venue faster.
You reinvest the money the venue earns in upgrades. The band has its own upgrades too, so there's work to do onstage while you improve how the venue handles its audience.
Take the show to bigger venues
As your business grows, you unlock new locations. A yard gives you a small crowd and a short walk to the stage. Bigger venues give you more people to manage and more room for queues to build.
You can collect managers and assign them to tickets, access or seating. General managers support all three areas at a venue. Matching manager cards can be merged to improve them, giving you another way to develop a stage you're already running.
Fully upgrading a venue also gives you the option to reset it for a lasting bonus. You can return to an early stage with a stronger setup and build it up again while working towards the next kind of venue.
Why we made a game about concerts
Most of us arrive at a gig thinking about the band. We notice the work of running the venue when the line stops moving or we spend the first song trying to find our seats. We wanted to make a game where those small decisions are visible, right down to what happens when you improve one part of the venue and the queue moves somewhere else.
On Kallitone, we spend a lot of time thinking about how someone discovers a new artist. Concert Empire takes place at the point where an audience has already decided to show up. Your job is to get the room ready for them, starting with the handful of people waiting outside First Yard.