About five years ago, I started a game with some friends which I ran from my dorm room in college. It was quite possibly one of the most fun, addictive and unpredictable games I’d ever played.

So five years later, I’ve taken my Web experience (specifically in PHP) and put it toward bringing the fun of that game to as many people as possible.

FlickPicks is like fantasy football, except you’re running a movie theater rather than a team, and rather than players you’re picking films that you will show on your theater’s screens each week.

Your score is determined by how those films do at the actual box office that week, allowing you to compete against your friends and people around the country at predicting the box office.

The site, which took a week of non-stop coding to build, has launched in beta as of this week (October 5) and will run for 10 weeks (the length of each ‘season’) before all features are rolled out and any bugs are gone.

I invite you to sign up for the beta and see how well you can run a theater. Sign up quick though as there are only 50 available spots for this first season. The deadline for the beta sign up is October 9 at 11:59 p.m.