Micro Dev

Survive the sprint. Then decide what kind of dev life you are building.

Micro Dev is a developer life sim, survival clicker, and micromanagement game about trying to make it in tech without letting the rest of your life collapse around you.

You start in a brutal seven-day interview sprint: build proof, write code, manage your money, keep your focus and sanity together, and somehow still land the offer before the week burns out. But that is only the beginning.

Once you break through, Micro Dev opens into long-form career routes where you can survive corporate pressure, chase the indie dream, or start your own studio from the basement and try to turn it into something real. The goal is bigger than one lucky week now. Move out. Buy the apartment. Buy the house. Retire. Try not to lose yourself on the way there.

## A developer sim with actual pressure ##

This is not a passive numbers-go-up clicker.

Every session is a balancing act between progress and survival. Writing code costs focus. Hunger eats at your sanity. Sleep debt wrecks your quality. Bills keep landing. Recruiters want proof. Freelance work can save the run, but only if you still have enough energy left to finish it. Even success creates new problems: commits pile up, feature branches drift, merge conflicts appear, and shipped projects need to be maintained while life keeps happening around them.

Micro Dev is about holding all of that together at once.

## What makes this version bigger

Micro Dev has expanded far beyond a simple jam prototype.

- Interview Mode is now the opener instead of the whole game

- Corporate, Indie, and Founder are full long-form routes with different pressures and pacing

- The run now stretches into life progression, including apartment, house, and retirement goals

- Build Studio lets you shape the kind of project you are making so the code and releases feel more coherent

- Shipped apps can earn storefront income over time

- Version control is part of the game loop, including commit checkpoints, feature branches, and merge conflicts

- Food and recovery systems are deeper, with delivery timing, expedited orders, and home-cooked meals

- Social systems now include contacts, dating, partner check-ins, mentor-style communication, and work-life pressure

- Procedural seeded content makes runs feel more varied while still being replayable

- The game includes 100 achievements and a large run stats system to track everything you survived, shipped, earned, and lost

- The UI has been heavily overhauled with theme support, font selection, better layout handling, and live options changes

- WebGL support is included, with browser and mobile-aware handling for landscape play

## What you actually do

- Write code line by line in a live editor

- Complete real-looking files instead of placeholder tasks

- Build portfolio work and publish releases

- Earn follow-up storefront payouts from shipped projects

- Apply for jobs, complete take-home challenges, and answer randomized interview questions

- Take freelance gigs to stay solvent

- Manage commits before desk chaos wipes your uncommitted work

- Handle merge conflicts and project drift

- Order food, cook at home, sleep, recover, and plan around bills

- Respond to life events like computer freezes, streaming binges, online matches, partner check-ins, boss pressure, and coworker interruptions

- Upgrade your setup and tune your desk for better output

- Push through different career routes with different strengths, weaknesses, and long-term win conditions

## Career routes

**Interview Mode**  

The pressure-cooker opening. Survive seven days, build enough proof, and land an offer before the deadline closes.

**Corporate Mode**  

More reliable salary, more structure, more office pressure. Bosses, check-ins, and micromanagement become part of daily survival.

**Indie Mode**  

More freedom, lighter social pressure, less financial safety. You have to stay disciplined, keep shipping, and survive on thinner margins.

**Founder Mode**  

Start your own studio from scratch. Freelance for rent, name the company, ship your own work, and try to build a future out of pure momentum.

## Difficulty and replayability

- 5 difficulty settings: Easy, Normal, Hard, Upgrade Loop, and Endless

- Optional Realistic+ sub-mode for tighter money and heavier consequences

- Seed-based runs with random or manual seed control

- Restart exact seeds to test better decisions

- Roll new seeds for new names, new pacing, new project flavor, and new event timing

## Presentation and platform support

- Desktop and WebGL builds

- Dark and light theme support

- Multiple code-friendly font options

- In-game appearance, resolution, window mode, and audio controls

- Built-in sound effects and adaptive lo-fi background music

- Browser/mobile support with landscape-focused play guidance

## Why play Micro Dev?

Because it captures a very specific kind of chaos: the feeling of trying to build a future one clean commit at a time while food, money, fatigue, relationships, work, and random disaster all keep asking for attention first.

If you like management games, life sims, developer humor, and systems that force you to juggle short-term survival against long-term ambition, Micro Dev is built for that exact tension.

Build proof. Ship something real. Survive the week. Then survive everything after it.