Immortal Markets

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Please play the demo before purchasing. I intended for the free demo to have most of the functionality of the full game, but it does not have bonds, commodities or short selling. The full version includes those features (except for short selling which is still in development) and also source code. This game is quite unusual, so to ensure customer satisfaction, you must play the demo before purchasing in order to make sure that you will like the full game.

In this game, you play as a deity that can gamble their shrine treasury on various financial instruments, including stocks, bonds and commodities. Upgrade your shrine with your winnings to perform "miracles" to manipulate financial markets. Do not get attached to your first dozen player characters; this game is quite difficult, with an incredibly steep learning curve. Do not be decieved by the apparent simplicity. There are meant to be dozens of hours of gameplay in the demo and hundreds of hours of gameplay in the full game.

This game is meant to be played with a pencil and paper or with a second monitor and spreadsheet.

To give the game the same thrill that one might experience as a quant trader or investor, statistical models have been used to mirror the United States stock market. The financial markets of the world are generally well-correlated, so you will not miss anything (or at least that is the idea).

Find all ten or so profitable techniques.

Currently implemented:
shrine, stocks, bonds, commodities and other core features (game is very playable and not buggy to my knowledge)

Not yet implemented:
- short selling
- music
- about/decication page with discord server link (currently no server)
- time increments other than one year
- bid/ask spread for commodities

Not sure if I will implement:
- stock options
- art (maybe profile pictures for CEOs?)
- save files (it's an arcade game like tetris, but you might want to stop halfway through and come back)

ATTENTION WINDOWS USERS: If the game does not run and gives an error, make sure you have the latest Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributables installed. Get them here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/windows/latest-supported-vc-redist?view=ms...