{"author_link":"\/author\/moochoomon\/","author_name":"Moochoomon","author_uid":"24436","comments":[{"author_name":"Eric","author_uid":"30755","time":"Dec 14, 2013 @ 10:38pm","epoch":1387060380,"text":"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"},{"author_name":"MyGrandmother","author_uid":"30041","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 10:38am","epoch":1387103580,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"TheOneWhoKnocks","author_uid":"29755","time":"Dec 15, 2013 @ 1:06pm","epoch":1387112460,"text":"Froze my computer. Had to force restart. Massive pain in the ass."},{"author_name":"Super Hamster","author_uid":"22460","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:17am","epoch":1387163520,"text":"Woah you're game is also a stock market. I'll have to come back to it when I have the time."},{"author_name":"Snail_Man","author_uid":"11050","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:29am","epoch":1387164240,"text":"Nice idea, and it was fun, but the dialogue box was very slow, sometimes taking up to a minute to respond."},{"author_name":"BoppreH","author_uid":"30967","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:29am","epoch":1387164240,"text":"Also froze my computer. Windows 8 64 bit, `java -version` reports &quot;1.7.0_13&quot;. Maybe it has to do with the way you packaged it?"},{"author_name":"scoopsy","author_uid":"10538","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:37am","epoch":1387164720,"text":"Your OSX links to the Windows version.  =("},{"author_name":"DrooobE","author_uid":"31874","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:37am","epoch":1387164720,"text":"I liked the idea. However, I couldn't play long at all because it froze my computer. Good idea, however!"},{"author_name":"Crowbeak","author_uid":"16689","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:37am","epoch":1387164720,"text":"You can't run an exe file on a Mac."},{"author_name":"Arcantic","author_uid":"18565","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:38am","epoch":1387164780,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"MrBlade","author_uid":"23232","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:40am","epoch":1387164900,"text":"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!"},{"author_name":"ENDESGA","author_uid":"19270","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 3:53am","epoch":1387165680,"text":"hahahaha, very cool :)"},{"author_name":"meek","author_uid":"21177","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 2:17pm","epoch":1387203120,"text":"The game unfortunately completely froze my computer, also had to restart."},{"author_name":"doitle","author_uid":"3578","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:47pm","epoch":1387230120,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"KayZ","author_uid":"17933","time":"Dec 16, 2013 @ 9:57pm","epoch":1387230720,"text":"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."},{"author_name":"brogrammers","author_uid":"26439","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 11:20am","epoch":1387365300,"text":"nice idea, but it has some bugs: \r<br\/>- 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\r<br\/>- sometimes I can't read how many stocks I have because the text is behind the buttons!"},{"author_name":"SimonRhys","author_uid":"12594","time":"Dec 18, 2013 @ 11:24am","epoch":1387365540,"text":"Awesome game! Enjoyed the feeling of power as I made millions, if only it was that easy in real life :("},{"author_name":"archaeometrician","author_uid":"27214","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 1:29am","epoch":1387675440,"text":"I made 235000$ in a week ! If only I had a printer to print all that nice money :P\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Great concept, I like the idea to start with only 1 $"},{"author_name":"Nichii","author_uid":"29131","time":"Dec 22, 2013 @ 3:24pm","epoch":1387725540,"text":"Nice game and concept about having just 1 dollar to climb all the way up to become billionaire in 1 year XD\r<br\/>\r<br\/>I have made only 96,737,396... but if this game were to be real, that would be over-powered lol."},{"author_name":"dqmhose","author_uid":"11488","time":"Dec 26, 2013 @ 3:22pm","epoch":1388071020,"text":"So much fun! Love the concept, pretty awesome, had a lot of fun, thanks!"},{"author_name":"Moosefly","author_uid":"25343","time":"Jan 7, 2014 @ 1:34am","epoch":1389058140,"text":"Hehe, got to 8*10^12$ 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 ;).\r<br\/>\r<br\/>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!"}],"images":["ld28\/24436-8f668d0ece3879a832d315dd33007abf.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/qzndwzipizxp7tj\/Stock%20Market%20Simulator.zip","text":"Windows"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/qzndwzipizxp7tj\/Stock%20Market%20Simulator.zip","text":"OS\/X"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/sm\/create\/Zips\/Stock%20Market%20Simulator%20Source.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"22390","g_author":"24436","g_event":"LD28","g_eventkey":"20","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"22420","g_title":"Stock Market Simulator","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"598","g_commentcount":"21","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/308734\/24436-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"This game requires the latest version of Java to run.\r\n\r\nThis 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.\r\n\r\nI 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.\r\n\r\nIf there are any issues, contact me at moochooco@gmail.com.\r\n\r\nEDIT: 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'.\r\n\r\nEDIT 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.\r\n\r\nEDIT 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... ","title":"Stock Market Simulator"}