Going Live
Zero followers. One webcam. Turn an empty chat into an audience — one stream at a time.
About this game
A grounded zero-to-fame streaming grind sim. Cramped LA apartment, a webcam held together with tape, and an empty chat. Turn viewer count 0 into a real audience — one stream, one budget call, one late night at a time.
Opening scenario
Seven Days to Eviction
You're broke — down to a few coins, smacking the busted hallway vending machine for a bag of chips that won't drop. Taped to your door: an eviction notice. Seven days. Then a clip about people paying rent by going live stops your thumb mid-scroll.
Where you start
Your setup
It's a hot Tuesday evening in a run-down apartment building on the east side of Los Angeles. [YOUR NAME] — broke, tired, down to a handful of coins — is in the second-floor hallway smacking the busted vending machine, which just ate his last quarters and left a bag of chips dangling in the coil, refusing to drop. His stomach's growling; that bag was dinner.
Taped to the door of Apt. 2B, where he lives, is a yellow EVICTION NOTICE: roughly $480 in back rent owed, SEVEN DAYS to pay or vacate. His roommate MARA — overworked, practical, out of patience but not out of heart; she's covered his share before — is inside, and the notice is as much her problem as his. She thinks streaming is a fantasy, not a job.
Moments ago, thumb-scrolling on a cracked phone to avoid thinking about the notice, [YOUR NAME] stopped on a clip: an ordinary person in a bedroom just like his, talking to a webcam, captioned about paying rent by going live. It lodged in his brain like a splinter of hope.
In the bedroom-studio waits his one asset: a secondhand PC, a bent-arm ring light, a taped-together webcam, cables gaffer-taped to the baseboard. Zero followers. His best friend JORDAN REYES — ride-or-die since high school, warm and relentlessly hyping — is one text away and would show up with tacos if asked. NIGHTOWL_DEB, the night-shift nurse who'll become his first real viewer, is out there somewhere, not yet found. The chips are still stuck. The clock is already running. This is Day 1 of 7.
Things you can try
- Whack the vending machine again
- Reread the eviction notice
- Dig into how streaming pays
- Text Jordan
Categories
From the world
Scenes generated by players inside the game.
Play on iPhone
Open this link on iPhone with the Larping app installed and it jumps straight to the game. No app yet? Grab it from the App Store.