The pitch deck
The proposition, creative influences, playable company, integration roadmap, and commercial direction.
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BENJAMIN FOSKEY / GAME & WORLD DESIGN
Dumpster
Dumpster
Divers
THE STRATEGIC ACQUISITION · SCRAP GOLD EDITION
A business you can play.
A strategy you can rehearse.
Start with a yard, a small crew, and a promise to the next customer. Build an operation that can keep that promise. Then decide how far it should reach.
Working prototype. Sign in with ChatGPT to keep a private, cloud-saved campaign. Opens in a new tab.
The reading room
The original project documents, ready to read or keep.
The full concept
The complete Master Blueprint: the world, game systems, business modes, architecture, equipment, and development roadmap.
Read the full concept ↗Download PDF ↓The field guide
A visual tour through the gameplay, headquarters, Strategy Room, design inspirations, and larger world.
Open the field guide ↗Download PDF ↓Development documents from September 2026. Proposed features, prices, and forecasts describe the vision and planning assumptions.
A world worth wandering into
Aspirational concept artwork for the miniature industrial world and its future war table. Select either image to see the full original.
AI-assisted concept art, created for the project. These images illustrate the intended visual direction.
From one yard
to a whole world.
Play the company
Dumpster Divers begins with salvage. Find demand, estimate a job, allocate a crew, complete the work, collect payment, and reinvest. Routes, staff, equipment, capacity, and cash reserves turn each decision into a trade-off.
See the consequences
A miniature landscape makes the operation visible: headquarters, territories, trucks, people, seasons, and routes. Growth opens new possibilities, while rival companies and limited resources keep the choices interesting.
Rehearse the decision
The Strategy Room is a place to test assumptions, consider rival responses, compare choices, and reflect on a written debrief. Direct, Shared, and AI CEO controls offer different ways to work through the simulation.
Build toward something larger
The full concept extends toward private connected-company scenarios, persistent competitive worlds, additional industries, and shared physical displays. A single identity could move among practice campaigns, company sessions, and competitive realms.
Keep the world coherent
Miniature tabletop scale, readable hex geography, base upgrades, ownership, tycoon operations, and persistent identity all feed one idea: a company whose decisions change the world around it.
Begin with what is playable
The hosted prototype offers private Oregon and Sarasota campaigns and saved Strategy Room rehearsals. Connected live business records, persistent multiplayer, and physical war-table hardware remain future development goals.
Follow the idea all the way through.
The complete blueprint preserves the full concept, including the proposed systems and steps beyond the current prototype.