Hey folks! 

Now that we've rolled passed the finish line, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on what y'all learned making your games! Feel free to answer any of these questions:

1. What did you learn about financial literacy?
2. How did you apply what you learned to your game? 
3. What challenges did you face in making it work? 

For me, it was the importance of due diligence. I wanted the player to consider all factors toward their decision to invest in a business, so I made a list of traits that they have to hover over with their mouse instead of putting all the stats upfront like a typical game would. 

Some factors are much more impactful than other (i.e. cornering the market) and that made it fun to balance. The biggest challenge would be applying these stats in the actual simulation (it's just as convoluted as the actual marketplace). I also learned about diversification and hedging your bets to manage risk. 

Hope you had fun making your game! Try out Bankroll and let me know how I did!

1. What did you learn about financial literacy? - Not much since I used what I already knew though I did have to do some research on fish
2. How did you apply what you learned to your game?  - I used what I learned about fish and what i knew about running a business to make a fishing business simulation game    :D
3. What challenges did you face in making it work?  -  Trying to fix bugs and issues took a while since itch.io was causing issues with sfx as it wouldent load sounds files with spaces which took me way longer than it should have to find that out
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   Overall I would say me and my teamate were happy with the final result even if theres some issues and im exited to check out other games from the jam  :)
   
   

1. What did you learn about financial literacy?

The importance of understanding why we dont use a barter system as well as why we use a fiat system that was originally set up to be backed by gold! And the importance of intrest rates, as well as properly balancing home economics with necessity. And the importance of Investments and Compound Interest (both compound working for you and against you)!

1. How did you apply what you learned to your game? 

 I tried to express the barter system being the downgrade to a Gold backed Currency system with Mr. Mint and his Double Coincidence of wants quest! I also went ahead and added a pretty insane no regulation variable intrest rate on the piggys loan since thats just how Mr. Snaps rolls(at least until the Central Bank announces rate cuts), as well as minimum weekly payments to encourage players to invest their money as they can, and know when they have to miss a payment to compound their own wealth via the Stocks Investments offered in the Mines by Felix Ergo. I also included the value, importance, and necessity of balance for Home Economics by including Miss Mara Bell Bunny and her Peculiar Records 'N Such shop that sells cool Posters, Records, and Couches that can be used to customize the home and the players experience! And Lastly the importance of work but that eventually once youve got all your finances under control you can sleep all day and play when you want to! But first lots of hard work(even if its fun)! And a Bit of luck! Oh and Currency Swaps as exchange rate markets are generally under taught from my experience so I added that in.

1. What challenges did you face in making it work? 

I really wanted to add a true inflation rate to modify the value of purchasable items but since the only things you can technically sell are stocks it felt more like a net negative on the game experience so it was left out. I was also having trouble with in air angle to change velocity but went with Airball mechanic instead since it felt better to have more shop items and is generally a more enjoyable experience with the ball bouncing off the ground which is probably a safer way for pigs to fly anywyas. I also wanted to add more animations however i ran out of time since i hand drew nearly everything aside from a few buttons(that i still stylized but still), and my sound guy went awol on me mid development so i had to do all the sound design as well as the code so i just didnt have time to do more than engine facilitated animations but if i make a second edition of this game I would def increase that as well as more shadders which I see alot of other people using and they look fantastic but so far ive just been trying to nail the fundamentals of game design. But hey its all a learning process! Hope you all enjoy if you give it a go and ill be playing every single game and try to point out 1 positive and 1 improvement for all of them! <3

1. What did you learn about financial literacy?

Honestly not much, but I used some of the Schoolhouse Rock songs to inspire 'Cash Cow', which teaches budgeting, specifically their song "$7.50 once a week".  But other than that It was just hard coming up with how to implement the ideas in the time frame that I had.

2. How did you apply what you learned to your game? 

I decided to teach by having characters represent budgeting Ideas, like a snake of guys called "Mr. Conveniences" that chasees the player around, representing the lazy tax people pay when they don't want to look around for a better deal.

3. What challenges did you face in making it work? 

I only learned about the jam 5 days before the deadline so mostly it was just getting it to work on time, especially considering I put in an online multiplayer mode.  I think it was worth it, but there are definitely quite a few bugs and quality of life things I would fix if It were to ever go anywhere.

Link to the game if you want to try it out:  Cash Cow by squidchip