Card shoot
Build coverage before the light runs out. Play gear, crew and style cards, handle on-set complications, and keep the stress meter below ten.
A freelance survival card game
Shoot the film.
File the taxes.
Survive the grind.
A phone, a name and no plan. Build a career one shoot at a time — then discover what the tax office thinks of your bookkeeping.
- 12avenues
- 8business skills
- 84days a year
- 1scorpion
The shape of a career
Every day is a budget.
Every choice is a bill.
Filmmaker Survivor is a turn-based card game wrapped around a freelance career sim. The shoot is the spectacle; the paperwork is the boss fight.
Business & taxes
Research bookkeeping, read the tax code, claim deductions and file before the government letter arrives. The tax model is hidden until you learn it.
Crew & Second Unit
Hire friends for free, paid freelancers for reliability, and send a second unit into the arcade run for bonus coverage. People remember bad sets.
The body
Coffee buys hours. Powder buys worse. Overwork makes you sick, lowers your ceiling and follows you into the next shoot. The career is a person.
The hidden tax code
The government
is watching.
Every run starts with a random tax model: flat or progressive, with its own rates, deduction rate and late-filing fine. You don't know it at the start. You can learn it through business research or an old economy magazine.
At the end of the year the bill arrives. If you never learned the code, the letter arrives four months later with one week to file. Ignore enough notices and the career ends in a cell.
- Hidden at the start of every run
- Rewritten every four years
- Deductions reward real business costs
- Loans open when the tax office calls
GOVERNMENT MODEL
Progressive 5% / 9% / 14%
Deduction rate40%
A demo of the model the game rolls behind the curtain. The real one stays hidden until you research it.
In the can
Looks like a film set.
Plays like a survival run.
Click any frame to open it full size. These are real screens from the current build.
Faces with a pulse
They blink.
They break.
Every freelancer has a face built from hand-made pixel layers. Mood follows the career: happy after a clean delivery, tired after a zero-hour day, desperate when the rent and the tax bill arrive together.
Faces blink, smile, frown and sweat. The person behind the camera is not a stat sheet.
Contact
Get in touch.
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- General contact: contact@scorpy.rip
Direct line
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