STOCK INC.

A BASIC STOCK MARKET GAME

This game was based on an old board-game that I've never seen in stores. Friends of mine had it when we were kids, and we used to get together to play it. It was basically a Stock Market game where six stocks were bought and sold, and dice decided where the stocks would go from turn to turn. I automated the process and made this turn-based game for up to six players.

The game was written in BASIC, but ran at a good speed because it didn't have a lot of real-time work to do.

I used my own re-defined character set to represent the stocks as PETSCII characters.

If stock dropped off, all value is lost, and if it splits, the value doubles, and the stock begins again at $1.00. While the board game used commodities as stocks, I used six of the more popular computer companies at the time: Commodore, Atari, Digital, IBM, Apple and Tandy.

In this screen, you see the player options:

1. Buy and Sell - This is the trading round. Every turn, the trading order was random, so no one had an inherent advantage.
2. Roll - Run a dice roll, letting the stock move
3. Add Traders - You could add new players at any point during the game
4. Drop Traders - You could also drop players at any point
5. Rank Traders - This showed the current value stats
6. End Game and Tabulate Results - End game, show the winner

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