THE Great Depression gave birth to the venerable board game Monopoly. The dotcom collapse now has its counterpart – a card game called Burn Rate, from a company called Cool Studio.
Players start with four cards, each representing an employee in their “company”, and $100 million in investment. Like most real dotcoms, players can’t make any money, but they can raise more money by playing their cards right. The goal is to keep going until everybody else has run out of money.
Software engineer Rich Koehler thought up the idea while working at a dotcom in the Seattle area, but didn’t…
