Upload: Zero to Studio - Video Creator Sim

Start with a borrowed camera, a bedroom desk and a promise to publish one honest video a week. Plan each video, catch the right shots, cut the story together and decide how to pay for it, then grow a fictional channel into your own studio without losing your friends or your voice.

What's in it

• 50 weeks of creator life across 5 story chapters, with a weekly community choice
• Pick one of 6 niches and 3 formats, and chase what your audience wants this week
• Capture three shots in a timing mini-game, then build the edit: opening, detail, payoff
• Sponsor deals with a real trade-off: stay independent, disclose a sponsor, or rush a paid edit and lose trust
• Balance energy, trust and friendship; rest when you need it
• Upgrade your camera, editing desk and studio room; replay any week to improve your stars
• English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Plays offline, no account.

Controls (PC)

• Mouse: everything. Click Capture while the marker is in the green focus zone.
• Space: capture a shot while filming.
• Tab / arrow keys + Enter: move between buttons and press them.
• Esc: back, or close a window. A click outside a window also closes it.
• Mouse wheel: scroll long windows.

The itch.io version

• No ads. No in-app purchases. The full game, once.
• The four ad bonuses are gone, and the game does not need them: you still learn the audience's interest by reading feedback (8 energy), and camera upgrades widen the focus zone. No double-payout button.
• A 540x960 portrait window that can be resized.

Credits

Original artwork created for this game. Fonts: Outfit, Fraunces, Space Grotesk (SIL OFL 1.1). Noto Sans Symbols and Noto Sans Symbols 2 subsets (SIL OFL 1.1) back up the game fonts. Made with Godot (MIT). Crash reports by Sentry (MIT).