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Stock Market Simulator by Moochoomon

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made by Moochoomon for LD28 (COMPO)
This game requires the latest version of Java to run.

This game is a stock market simulator. In the game, you start out with 1 dollar and you have exactly 1 year to make as much money as you can.

I thought this idea game would fit with the theme because You Only Get One dollar at the start and You Only Get One year to make as much money as possible.

If there are any issues, contact me at moochooco@gmail.com.

EDIT: Thanks to Eric, I decided to replace the button presses with an input dialog box. It is now much less tedious to buy and sell 'stock'.

EDIT 2: I noticed that this game sometimes freezes your computer and some people have to force restart. I think this has to do with people not having the latest version of java. If anybody knows how to fix this problem, please feel free to comment the problem.

EDIT 3: I think the problem was the thread not taking a sleep time. I added a sleep time as it "crashed" computers, so hopefully it fixes the crashing...
Windows https://www.dropbox.com/s/qzndwzipizxp7tj/Stock%20Market%20Simulator.zip
OS/X https://www.dropbox.com/s/qzndwzipizxp7tj/Stock%20Market%20Simulator.zip
Source https://www.dropbox.com/sm/create/Zips/Stock%20Market%20Simulator%20Source.zip
Original URL https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-28/?action=preview&uid=24436

Ratings

Coolness 35% 1379
Overall 2.89 598
Fun 3.22 267
Graphics 1.56 977
Innovation 3.28 248
Mood 2.53 659
Theme 3.39 221

Feedback

Eric
14. Dec 2013 · 22:33 UTC
This game is awesome. Only suggestion i have is instead of just a button you have to click a million times have some kind of input box that you can type the amount you want to sell
MyGrandmother
15. Dec 2013 · 10:33 UTC
I love mangment games, I think that is great that you make this in less and 48h, you should play gazillionaire i think that is a great example of this type of game.
TheOneWhoKnocks
15. Dec 2013 · 13:01 UTC
Froze my computer. Had to force restart. Massive pain in the ass.
Super Hamster
16. Dec 2013 · 03:12 UTC
Woah you're game is also a stock market. I'll have to come back to it when I have the time.
Snail_Man
16. Dec 2013 · 03:24 UTC
Nice idea, and it was fun, but the dialogue box was very slow, sometimes taking up to a minute to respond.
BoppreH
16. Dec 2013 · 03:24 UTC
Also froze my computer. Windows 8 64 bit, `java -version` reports "1.7.0_13". Maybe it has to do with the way you packaged it?
scoopsy
16. Dec 2013 · 03:32 UTC
Your OSX links to the Windows version. =(
DrooobE
16. Dec 2013 · 03:32 UTC
I liked the idea. However, I couldn't play long at all because it froze my computer. Good idea, however!
Crowbeak
16. Dec 2013 · 03:32 UTC
You can't run an exe file on a Mac.
Arcantic
16. Dec 2013 · 03:33 UTC
Yeah just like everyone else, froze computer had to restart. As someone who also developed theirs in Java, I have no idea how you managed that haha.
MrBlade
16. Dec 2013 · 03:35 UTC
From what I saw, this is a great game! Very cool concept for my as I LOVE stocks. Cool and usable interface. Although it says my game is running at 59-85FPS, the game won't register input after the menu screen and I have to force quit it via task manager. Keep it up!
ENDESGA
16. Dec 2013 · 03:48 UTC
hahahaha, very cool :)
meek
16. Dec 2013 · 14:12 UTC
The game unfortunately completely froze my computer, also had to restart.
doitle
16. Dec 2013 · 21:42 UTC
This game worked ok for me on 64-bit Windows 7. Completed the 365 days. Reminds me of games I used to play on my Ti-83+ in school.
KayZ
16. Dec 2013 · 21:52 UTC
Minor nitpick: A trading year only has ~252 days. And some kind of Thread.sleep() in your game loop could be useful to prevent it from freezing computers.
brogrammers
18. Dec 2013 · 11:15 UTC
nice idea, but it has some bugs:
- for some reason, it gave me much more money than I expected when I sold some stocks, resulting in the immediate possibility to buy hundreds of the most expensive ones and making the game too easy
- sometimes I can't read how many stocks I have because the text is behind the buttons!
SimonRhys
18. Dec 2013 · 11:19 UTC
Awesome game! Enjoyed the feeling of power as I made millions, if only it was that easy in real life :(
archaeometrician
22. Dec 2013 · 01:24 UTC
I made 235000$ in a week ! If only I had a printer to print all that nice money :P

Great concept, I like the idea to start with only 1 $
Nichii
22. Dec 2013 · 15:19 UTC
Nice game and concept about having just 1 dollar to climb all the way up to become billionaire in 1 year XD

I have made only 96,737,396... but if this game were to be real, that would be over-powered lol.
dqmhose
26. Dec 2013 · 15:17 UTC
So much fun! Love the concept, pretty awesome, had a lot of fun, thanks!
Moosefly
07. Jan 2014 · 01:29 UTC
Hehe, got to 8*10^12$ or so, the end screen just displays the maximum value of a 32 bit integer (2 147 483 647). I guess I shouldn't have been able to buy 1*10^9 shares (maybe the max here is also 2 147 483 647) of MeTube at 1$ and sell them the next day for 50$ a pop ;).

Interesting game, although I think I cheated. There could be a lot of depth in this, if you wished to take it into that direction. Good job!