Stock Ticker: Insider Knowledge

Buy and sell stocks to build a fortune in this classic board game.

Introduction

This is a digital implementation of the classic Stock Ticker board game (1937), with support for several rule variants, local multiplayer, and AI agents. The Insider Knowledge card variant was designed by the author.

The goal of the game is to buy and sell shares in a stock market that changes according to dice rolls. After a certain number of turns, the player with the greatest fortune wins.

Project

The objective is to provide a free game so people can test and experiment with my Glymmer library. It also serves as an example project that developers can use to create their own games.

Most game rules are implemented using SQL scripts, and save games are SQLite databases. The project is also open source. This makes the game moddable and hackable. The source code can be found here:

Stock Ticker's Gitlab repository: https://gitlab.com/larienna/stockticker

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence was used during the research and development of this game, including research, debugging, design, and partial code generation. Insider card descriptions were generated with AI, and the game rules and the readme file were corrected with AI assistance. For more details, refer to the chat logs when they become available.

System Requirements

Stock Ticker is lightweight and runs well on most modern PCs with OpenGL 3.3 support. So I included requirements that actually matters and that I could validate:

• Operating system: 64 bit OS, Linux or Windows

• Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU

• Screen Resolution: 640 x 480

• Disk Space: 4.5 MB (Linux), 40 MB (Windows)

• Input: Keyboard or Joystick

As reference, on my old laptop, using Linux, with 6 Gigs of ram and a dual core 2.7 Ghz CPU, the game takes 80 megs of ram, and 9% of my CPU.

Licenses

GPL-3.0 (code)  

CC-BY 4.0 / Pixabay License (assets)

Copyright Eric Pietrocupo

Install instructions

1. Unzip the file in a folder of your choice.

2. Double click on the binary executable "stockticker" (on linux) or "stockticker.exe" (on Windows). You can also launch from command line by typing the name of the file.

3. Everything will be self-contained in that folder: Program, assets, libraries and of course save games.

Enjoy! and have fun

Tags: #strategy #boardgame #stockmarket