Music Mastermind

Start with nothing. Build a career on streams, reputation, and grind.

You're an artist with a laptop, a cracked copy of a DAW, and a bedroom full of foam panels. Everyone starts here. Where you end up — chart-topping superstar or forgotten one-hit wonder — depends entirely on what you record, when you release it, and how you manage the slow, unglamorous climb in between.

Music Mastermind is a music industry career sim about the whole grind: writing and recording tracks, upgrading your studio, building an audience, managing your energy and time, and eventually deciding whether to stay independent or sign with a label that wants a cut of everything you make.

What you'll actually be doing

🎙️ Write and record real tracks Pick a genre, name the track, and head into the studio. Your gear, your skills, and how well you know the genre all shape the final quality — every track gets a real OVR score that determines how it performs once it's out.

🎛️ Upgrade your studio, category by category Computer & DAW, mics & interface, monitors & headphones, instruments & hardware synths, acoustic treatment — five categories, four tiers each, from a cracked laptop to a custom room-in-room vocal booth. Better gear means better tracks, but every upgrade is a real financial trade-off.

📈 Watch a real streaming engine react to what you release Every track ramps up, peaks, and decays on its own timeline — just like a real release cycle. Streams, earnings, and chart position are all simulated live, day by day, track by track.

🌍 Compete on live Global and Country Top 50 charts You're not streaming into a void. Forty rival NPC artists — from bedroom indie acts to global superstars — are releasing music, building fanbases, and climbing the same charts you are.

✕ Run your own social media presence Post updates, promote your releases, and watch your follower count and reach grow (or stall) based on what you post and when.

⭐ Build — and lose — a reputation Reputation isn't a number that only goes up. Consistently strong releases build momentum; weak tracks, flops, and long silences erode it. Your reputation quietly shapes how far your music reaches and how loyal your fans stay.

🏷️ Get noticed by record labels — eventually Once you're good enough, big enough, or hot enough on the charts, labels start reaching out — from tiny indie imprints to major players. Every offer is different: revenue split, contract length, signing bonus, and perks like automatic promotion or studio access. Sign one and you're trading a cut of your earnings for real advantages. Change your mind later, and breaking the contract will cost you.

👤 Level up your artist, not just your gear Nine attributes across composition, production, and stage presence — Musicality, Rhythm, Songwriting, Sound Design, Mixing & Mastering, Arrangement, Performance, Trend Sense, and Charisma & Branding — all grow the more you create.

⏱️ Control the pace Pause, play, or fast-forward through the slow days. Sleep to restore energy, skip ahead through long studio sessions, and manage your time like the limited resource it actually is.

Why it feels different

Nothing here is decorative. The chart you're climbing is built from the same simulation the NPCs are running. The reputation stat isn't flavor text — it's quietly multiplying your reach and your fan retention every single day. The label offer in your inbox was generated for your stats, at this moment in your career, and it won't wait forever.

Status: actively in development

Music Mastermind is currently at v0.0.1 and under continuous, active development. Core systems — studio, recording, streaming, charts, social media, reputation, and record labels — are all playable now, with more planned: features and collaborations, additional platforms beyond X, and expanded label perks.

Found a bug or something feels off? Please report it here: https://github.com/ZappyQ/Music-Mastermind/issues

Every report helps — this early stage is exactly when it matters most.