Mostly GrantsPress kit
Everything you need to write about Mostly Grants and Overhead. Use anything on this page freely. Questions and interviews: [email protected].
Mostly Grants
In one line: Small satirical browser games about academic life and the business of research.
In a paragraph: Mostly Grants is a games label about the university as it is actually run: by forms, committees, cost centres and, increasingly, software that promises to automate all three. Its games are free, run in the browser and need no account. The long-running joke is the coming AI takeover of university administration; the label's own home page is, it claims, approved by the Agentic University Platform. Mostly Grants is a label of Opercularis LLC.
Overhead
| Genre | Idle / incremental game |
|---|---|
| Status | Public beta (version 0.10) |
| Platform | Web browser, on a desktop or laptop computer |
| Price | Free. No account, no ads. |
| Length | About an hour to a first ending |
| Play | mostlygrants.com/overhead |
Short description: An idle game about indirect costs. You are a university administrator. The number that must go up is administration.
Long description: Overhead is an idle game set on a 2010s office desktop. You reply to emails, approve forms and sign documents, then hire people to do it for you, form committees to approve the hiring, and publish procedures that generate more forms. Overhead, the number in the taskbar, is administration's share of everything in scope. It starts at the campus and keeps going. Attaché, a helpful paperclip, explains the next click at every stage and offers choices that do not matter. Every answer is correct, every option has the same effect, and the game records only the click. It is the official training simulator of the Admin Olympiad, and a descendant of Universal Paperclips (2017), in which the universe ends in paperclips. Here it ends in one, and a form.
Screenshots
1440 × 900 PNG. Click to open the full-size file.
Logo and images
- Mostly Grants logo (SVG)
- Attaché, the paperclip (SVG)
- Mostly Grants banner, 1200 × 630 (PNG)
- Overhead banner, 1200 × 630 (PNG)
Brand colours: ink #241A3D, yellow #FFD84D, lilac #ECE6FF, paper #FBF8F3. Type: Fraunces and DM Sans. In text, write "Mostly Grants" (two words, both capitalised).
How to cite or share
To cite the game:
To share it, link to mostlygrants.com/overhead. Players can copy their result from the end screen; it carries the hashtag #AdminOlympiad.
Contact
[email protected]. Mostly Grants is a label of Opercularis LLC.