Bonzi's Big Bubble

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Inspiration

The dot com bubble, and the ridiculousness of early 2000's personal assistants.

What it does

A Bloomberg terminal-inspired trading application, allowing the player to attempt to profit from historical daily trading data from 2000-2003. The player attempts to beat a "safe investment", for this we used the return given by 1-year US treasury bonds during that time span.

During this, the player also deals with their helper - the infamous Y2K assistant BonziBuddy, who helps them make investment decisions.

How we built it

Pure blood, sweat, tears and Monster. Made in Pygame, with no vibe coding (even though it might look better if we did), with Git as version control.

Challenges we ran into

We really should have made an OOP diagram and scoped our project properly to stop the encroachment of spaghettification, maybe a bit more planning would have helped, but we somehow linked it all together without any circular imports.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Applied and implemented actionable historical trading data for 8 top stocks on various US stock exchanges.
Implemented a "live" news system, displaying key news insights for the historical day, allowing the user to understand the impact of the dot com burst, while attempting to make money.
Developed it without vibe coding
Properly planned out a fully functioning Bloomberg terminal inspired GUI.