Prospectus

Inspiration

When a couple of friends and I went to an Investin investment banking event - we decided to create a similar project where instead of a pure investment simulator - we would allow the user to decide on choices based on the availability of information while teaching them valuable skills in the process.

What it does

Its a simple model where the user is taught basic info on 4 of the most valuable analysis topics; where afterwards they will use that knowledge in certain scenarios to choose to invest their money. The ultimate goal is to earn as much money as possible by selecting the very most correct choices for each scenario. It is a large oversimplification of a true busy stock market - however it still presents these complex ideas to a beginner audience.

How we built it

Originally created a basic template which we shared and added bits to optimise the model. We avoided complex ideas and stayed with a very simple and minimalistic style involving hand drawn pixel UI and less than 400 lines of code.

Challenges we ran into

The battle between a 1980 minimalist style to ambition to almost making a game caused some problems with the team; however as soon as we all agreed and stayed on task we finished quite quickly.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Optimisation - we used coding knowledge and AI to minimise system stress where we cut down to an extremely inefficient program which took more than a second to start-up - to a program which you can launch hundreds of times with no effect - it was great practice we could all take into future hackathons. As well as creating our idea of a minimalist simulator - we worked very hard and it looks just like what we envisioned.

What we learned

Optimization, teamwork and working with different styles and ideas - the original idea was far more complex and through extreme abstraction we created our idea perfectly.

What's next for Prospectus

By expanding scenarios and slightly increasing interactivity and exiting the minimalist style we would like to give it to the economics department at our school to use in extension tasks.

Built With

• godot