'Play Money' is a finance simulator based on the stock market. It is an introduction to trading for absolute beginners, simulating a simplified representation of stock price behaviour based primarily on (fictional) current events, and how the price of shares and money behaves in the finance eco-system.

Players begin the game with a certain amount of capital, and through making trades - 'buying' and 'selling' shares in certain companies, their goal is to maximize profits from their investments, and increase their capital. Time is accelerated by a factor of 1 day per minute in real-time.

The game U.I. consists of a large display of prices shown in real time of performance:

• The name of each listed company
• Their share price today
• A graph showing the trend in their share price value over the last month
• The total equity of the company

In the lower third of the U.I. shows text updates of current events, which the players use to predict changes in prices of companies.

Example:

"Company X announces the resignation of CEO, Mr. Doe following public outcry over insider trading evidence.
Company X also announces plans to spend 26 million on a company logo redesign",

Sees a sudden drop in Company X share prices, and steady rise of Corporation Y share prices.

The core game play components for players is simplified drastically into two key areas:

• Trading - trading is simplified to buying and selling numbers of shares. This is done effectively through understand their holdings, and learning to observe their own performance to make calculated decisions on what to buy and sell.
• Speculating - this defines the act of observing patterns of behaviour between current events and how stock prices are effected; how the performance of other companies in the same sector affects others, and the cyclical nature of the stock market as a whole when external forces are introduced (for example, the introduction of company researching disruptive technology going public).

Platform: Social media API that can be played on mobile devices and desktop PC.
Target Audience: Adults.

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