At first I had no idea what to do but when I read in other comments that it’s basically just blackjack wrapped in stock market visuals it became actually fun to play!
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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #203 | 3.800 | 3.800 |
| Innovation | #270 | 3.520 | 3.520 |
| Gameplay | #626 | 3.160 | 3.160 |
| Overall | #647 | 3.227 | 3.227 |
| Enjoyment | #691 | 3.280 | 3.280 |
| Visuals | #972 | 3.160 | 3.160 |
| Audio | #1206 | 2.440 | 2.440 |
Ranked from 25 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
How does the game fit the theme?
Start investing your 1m dollar fund in AI and tech startups, hit massive payouts if you hit perfect valuation, and optionally double down or "Risk it" for a big multiplier if you beat the competitor.
What code and assets did you not make from scratch during the jam (if any)?
Font: Exo2
Framework/ Engine: Love2D + love.js
Sound Effects: Kenney.nl
How many people worked on the game?1
Comments
166 days ago(+1)
Yeah I messed up a bit on the UI layout and if the vertical size of the screen is not > 720 px or so, things get squished. I've since fixed it but of course I can only upload the new version after the jam is over. Thanks for playing !
Thanks for playing, and for your feedback! I agree that the info popup is lacking any real ...info. I had initially added all the rules in a list on the Help/ Info page but then removed those as it felt like I was holding the player's hand too much. But given the feedback from you as well as from some others, now I should probably add the Rules back to make it clear what the game is (and yeah, it's a variation of blackjack like you said):
- A startup can have a valuation between 18 to 24 (both inclusive)
- Your aim is to get as close as to the valuation as possible but the valuation is not shown to you (and it's not necessarily 21, it can be anything between 18 and 24)
- If the market (dealer) goes above 24, they go bust and you win
- If you go above 24, you go bust and the market wins
- Risk it is a special mechanic like a double down: You are committing to picking just one more card to submit your final guess but this means that IF you win, you will get 4X the return
- If you guess the valuation precisely (Unicorn), you will get a payout either 3X, 4X or 5X.
- if you win but were not perfect in your valuation, you get 2X of your investment instead
- The real payout happens when both the Risk it multiplier and the Unicorn multiplier happen simultaneously- either 12X, 16X or 20X
Hopefully that makes sense, and I'd love to know if adding all this to the help/ info popup will make sense (it seems like that's the feedback so far)
Ooooh so that is why sometimes it felt like I lost at random, it's just an unknown number between 18 and 24?
It does feel like a bit of a crapshoot then when you don't know what the number is, like technically it is a risk management game then but you can't really calculate or estimate risk or chances properly when you don't know what you are aiming for. I'm not sure that I'm a fan of that particular mechanic, though I guess it does certainly make the game a lot more risky. That definitely seems like something that should be more explicitely stated in the game yes,
Hmm, I see! This is really valuable feedback so thank you so much for that. One feature I had considered but never got around to was to provide a "Risk Meter", this will become more green the closer you get to the value. But perhaps you are right and having the valuation exposed right at the start may be better. I'll have to rethink a few things after the Jam voting is over
I felt like a big city investor! Got bankrupt a few times but happy with this final score. I almost had a lot more right before the end... such is life :-) 168 days ago(+1)
Not bad at all! Thanks for playing :)
And .. investment skills in the game are not transferrable to the real world unfortunately. Don't ask me how I know 😬
169 days ago(+1)
Hey, thanks for checking it out! I hope you do come back later, and hopefully I'd have added a tutorial by then 🤞
170 days ago(+1)
Thanks for playing! Agree on the music, I just left it too late, it took me too long to balance the game so that, hopefully, one can find a strategy or two for getting more consistent returns.
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