Theme Park

So the game is a simulation title where players manage a MMORPG game studio and help craft its game's content.

So Let's Build a Zoo very much reminded me of Theme Park.

Let's hope that this one reminds me of Dungeon Keeper.

I guess we'll see.

So what do we learn from this, apart from I'm a very unfun person to invite to your board game evening? It's that there is a game actually, and you may laugh at this, that I think taught me more professionally than many actual qualifications I did, which is this game.

It was released in 1996 and it's called Theme Park.

It's kind of a simulation game about running a theme park.

There's all kinds of really interesting variables you can affect which change your optimisation outcome, which is you're meant to make as much money as possible in this game.

This game is really similar to SEO for lots of reasons.

Lots of things SEOs talk about.

And like Google, there are documented and undocumented things you can do to affect the outcome.

so an example in theme park is you can change the ticket price which if you put the ticket price up you make more money up until a certain point where people are like oh it's too expensive i'm not coming just like google has provided us with documented advice about you can optimize your title tag and put keywords in it but you know you can't put 500 words in your title tag it doesn't work that way But the really interesting thing about this game for me and why I ended up loving it was the undocumented things you can do to optimize.