About

Too Big To Fail is a free, multiplayer board game inspired by the classic game Acquire. Found companies, buy stock, engineer mergers, and try to amass the biggest fortune before the game ends.

The game is played entirely in your browser — no downloads, no installs. Create or join a game from the Lobby, invite friends with a private game code, and play in real time. Track your ranking on the Leaderboard.

The Closer

Too Big To Fail is built by Thomas Bohmbach, Jr., a software developer based in Minneapolis with over two decades of experience spanning C++ imaging applications, Java enterprise architecture for Fortune 5 and Fortune 100 companies, and Python cloud applications.

A coder at heart who's now vibing, Thomas has bootstrapped three startups, contributed to open-source projects, and continues to build things for the joy of building them. Too Big To Fail is the latest — a passion project combining his love of strategy games with an experiment in human-AI collaborative development.

Built With Claude

This project is built in partnership with Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding agent. Claude participates across the full lifecycle:

• Architecture & design — data models, game engine structure, real-time communication patterns
• Development — writing and reviewing code across Python, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS
• Operations — database migrations, deployments, production debugging, admin tooling
• Game AI — LLM prompt engineering for bot strategy, chat personas, and game summaries
• Quality — test suites, code review, and chasing down the bugs that slip through

Every feature, migration, and hotfix in this codebase was pair-programmed between a human and an AI. The commit history tells the story.

Contact

Questions or feedback? Reach us at hausbroker@toobigtofail.net.