Stock Ticker

Controls: Mouse, (multiple controller functionality in progress)

How to start a game:

*It is important to click the full-screen button to ensure resolution properly scales

1. Select how many players and press play button.
2. Choose a character for each player (defaults to W.W.)
3. Designate one player to be the stock broker (control buy and sell actions)
4. The game has started!

Game play:

The game has six stocks, which in fact are commodities. These six are Gold, Silver, Bonds, Oil, Industrials and grain. During gameplay all the stocks are identical. Each stock begins costing 100 dollars apiece. Players are given starting money of $10000 and they buy shares in groups of 1,10, or 100. The stocks move based on the throw of three dice. The first die picks the stock that will be affected, with one of the commodities on each side of the die. The second die determines what whether the stock will move up, down, or pay a dividend. The third die decides if the movement or dividend will be five, ten, or twenty dollars. For instance, a roll of Industrials, Down, 20 will move the industrials stock from its start value of $100 to 80 dollars. A roll of Grain, Up, 5 would move grain up to $105.

Dividends are paid out only for any stocks that are at or above $100 in value. For instance, a five percent dividend pays five dollars for each share owned. Thus, if a roll is Oil, Dividend, 10, and you own a thousand shares of Oil at $125 apiece you will receive a dividend of $100. Note that the dividend is not affected by the value of the share, with only the rule being that stocks worth less than $1.00 do not pay out when a dividend is rolled for them.

If a stock ever reaches $200 it splits. Everyone who owns the stock doubles the number of shares owned and the stock goes back to being worth $100. If a stock falls to being worth nothing all players lose their investment in that stock and must return their shares to the bank. The stock is then reset at $100.

After a set number of rolls, all players are able to buy and sell stocks concurrently at the prices established. The stock broker will perform trading actions for each player.