BUSY HOUR
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation, Strategy. Free.
BUSY HOUR is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
Size every board and every wire for the busiest hour of the day. BUSY HOUR is a free telephone-company incremental for your browser. It is 1895. You have one magneto switchboard in a market town, sixty subscribers and an operator on each shift. Each day you play is one year of the company, and by 1935 the whole county should be able to call itself.
How it plays Open exchanges in the county's eight towns, add sections to their boards, and string pole routes between them. Every county is generated: its towns, river, fields and woods. Calls follow the day. At night a lamp lights now and then; at ten in the morning every board is busy.
On a manual board each call waits for an operator on the shift, and you set how many sit at the board on the day, evening and night shifts. A lamp nobody answers in two minutes is a caller who gave up. Toll calls between two towns grow with the subscribers at BOTH ends, and each one needs a free circuit on every leg of its route. When every circuit is busy the call is lost.
The curve under the map shows the day's calls by the hour, with the lost ones in red. Sleet brings open wire down; linemen climb the poles and mend it.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.