Game guide

Road to Fame

A practical guide to practicing, earning, producing merchandise, handling tax, competing, and growing your artist.

New player path

Your first 10 minutes

Start small. Improve one skill, earn your first resources, then collect a free chance at an extra reward.

  1. 1
    Build your artist

    Start a practice session

    Choose a coach to gain XP in the skill tied to your artist role.

    Open practice
  2. 2
    Earn resources

    Take a beginner job

    Check the requirements and failure risk, then join a job you can safely complete.

    View jobs
  3. 3
    Claim a bonus

    Spin the prize wheel

    Use your available spin for money, fans, XP, repairs, or another useful bonus.

    Spin the wheel
The core loop

How your career grows

Most of LOAMA follows this simple rhythm. You can choose your own pace and repeat whichever activities you enjoy.

01

Train

Raise your role skill, Songwriting, and Stage Presence.

02

Earn

Use jobs, performances, merchandise sales, and bonuses to collect resources.

03

Invest

Buy required gear, storage, and a residency when you need them.

04

Perform & connect

Grow your audience, join a band, trade, and meet other artists.

Know your resources

What the numbers mean

These four resources appear throughout the game.

XP

Raises individual skill levels and contributes to your total artist level.

Money

Pays for coaches, equipment, rent, storage, repairs, trades, and filed tax reports.

Fans

Represent your audience and grow through performances and career activity.

ThornCoins™

Premium currency earned from donation rewards or player trades.

Choose an activity

Where to go next

Each area has a clear purpose. Open one directly when you are ready.

Grow

Practice

Gain skill XP with coaches. Higher levels may require permanent gear.

Practice skills
Earn

Job Board

Complete solo or crew work for money, fans, and skill XP. Always read the risk.

Find a job
Perform

Street Performance

Earn tips and Stage Presence XP. Keep some repair money available for equipment.

Perform live
Create & sell

Merchandise

Produce T-shirts, Tank Tops or zipper hoodies, manage storage, price products, and turn Fan Demand into personal income.

Run your store
Compete daily

Audience Award

Vote for original merchandise art or chase four daily 23-hour Most Gains leaderboards and their podium prizes.

View awards
Bonus

Wheel of Fortune

Return when the timer is ready for a chance at resources, repairs, or extra spins.

Open wheel
Invest

Item Store

Buy practice requirements, permanent equipment, temporary boosters, and repairs.

Browse items
Build

Residency & Storage

Find a home and expand item capacity. Remember that rental costs recur.

View property
Trade

Marketplace

Create or accept offers involving money, fans, or ThornCoins™.

View trades
Track & pay

Accounting & Tax

Audit every transaction, follow live income and wealth-tax estimates, and settle filed reports before fees grow.

Open Tax Office
Connect

Bands & Community

Join a band, meet active artists, make friends, and use public or private chat.

Explore bands
Income and wealth

Plan for daily taxes

  • 20% income tax: eligible gross gameplay earnings are counted from 19:00 to 19:00 Amsterdam time.
  • 1% to 5% wealth tax: your complete money balance is assessed separately at 00:00 Amsterdam time.
  • 8-hour payment window: every 8 hours late adds 50% of the original tax to that report.
  • Full payments only: reserve enough money, then pay one report or all open reports through Accounting & Tax.
Community and support

Recognise staff and ask for help

Player names use the same identity hierarchy throughout LOAMA, including chat, profiles, rankings, band pages, and activity lists.

Name identity

White, purple, green, red

Regular players are white. Donators are purple with a purple icon. Moderators are green with a moderator star. Admins are red with an administrator star. When staff also donate, their purple donator icon remains first and the staff star follows it.

Find online artists
Need staff?

Call or message the team

Use @moderator or @admin in Live Chat. For a private conversation, find a green moderator or red admin in Online Artists or the Hall of Fame, open their profile, and choose Send Message.

Open Live Chat
Daily Audience Award

Results at 12:00, fresh starts at 13:00

Both competitions freeze their final numbers at 12:00 Amsterdam time. The winners remain on stage for a 60-minute countdown, then fresh 23-hour rounds begin at 13:00. Earned prizes stay claimable until collected.

Fan choice

Best Merchandise Design

Start a Merchandise batch with new original uploaded artwork during the active round to enter its immutable T-shirt, Tank Top or zipper-hoodie design. It competes only in that round. Every artist has one final vote and cannot vote for their own entry.

  1. #110.000 fans€5.000,00
  2. #25.000 fans€2.500,00
  3. #32.500 fans€1.250,00
View designs and vote
Four challenges

Most Gains

Make the largest positive gain in fans, XP, money, or real active play during the round. Each board has a separate podium, and one artist can win more than one category.

FansXPMoneyActive play
  1. #110.000 fans€10.000,00
  2. #25.000 fans€5.000,00
  3. #32.500 fans€2.500,00
Open four leaderboards
In development

The Music Workshop is being rebuilt

Writing, recording, and song libraries will return with deeper solo and live-band collaboration. Existing chart activity remains available through Thornify and the Mega Top 50.

Open Thornify
Good habits

A few things worth remembering

  • Keep practice timers moving whenever you can.
  • Check job requirements and failure stakes before joining.
  • Save enough money for gear, rent, possible repairs, and filed tax reports.
  • Use Accounting when you want to understand where money went.