Clearly still a work in progress, but the idea is really fun, if you're into this sort of thing... I guess I am!
One thing though, the font is cool and stuff, but really hard to read.
Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning
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#22Really liked the idea and spent 15-20 mins playing it. Would be good to save your progress. To be more realistic I shouldn't be able to buy a house after about 5 months of salary. Make the house prices 10 times more expensive if you want it to more like real life!
Also It's not clear to me if I take the job I can't go to university? I took the job in the absence of another choice, like real life if I got a great alternative offer I would leave the job and do that instead.
Nice work :-)
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#23This reminds me a bit of "The game of life" back in the 90s
Optimizing life for filling the savings account as fast as possible at the expense of everything else has consequences and your game should reflect this.
You should have stats including your characters age, health, happiness and social skills and have some kind of social media app with your friends constantly trying to invite you out for concerts, nights out, dating? and so on so that you have constant distractions to spend your money on to make it more challenging. Not building up the happiness and social skills stats should have consequences. You should be able to buy a gym membership to keep your health stat from deteriorating.
The consequences of not building up those stats early in your life is poor health, shit social skills and no friends except for the people you work with. But yay, you're a millionaire I guess?
The real game of life is that it's all a balancing act between having your financial house in order while also having a fulfilling social life, health, and happiness
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#25It simulates real life pretty well: - I have an unread email in the inbox but I can't find it - The banks send me emails with no content in the body, some email glitch on their side - I tried to buy a property, lost my solicitor's fee but never got the property - There are no good jobs available except one underpaid junior position - I pay way too much in tax compared to what I make
This may well be an en-gb locale specific bug. Also, who's mum charges rent?
LOL
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#26I changed job and suddenly started paying rent to mum even when I've had my own house for 2 years... payment for mortgage and to mum are right next to each other.
It would be nice if the houses showed the energy expenses and fees. And mortgages show the interest rate and the expected monthly payments.
Oh, and every property still shows the green "Purchase successful" message since I bought the first property.
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#28This is fun. It's pretty buggy though.
I bought two properties so far (hindsight is awesome), but I'm still paying rent to mom, apparently I didn't move in.
Now I cannot sell or rent them out.
Also, not much happens? I just sit here watching numbers go up.
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#29You should put a warning that it does not work on mobile. The UI isn’t compatible. I’ll check it again from my laptop later.
Yeah I as going to do that but never got round to it, definitely a desktop experience
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#30It simulates real life pretty well: - I have an unread email in the inbox but I can't find it - The banks send me emails with no content in the body, some email glitch on their side - I tried to buy a property, lost my solicitor's fee but never got the property - There are no good jobs available except one underpaid junior position - I pay way too much in tax compared to what I make
This may well be an en-gb locale specific bug. Also, who's mum charges rent?
You must have lived the good life.
My mum didn't charge me rent, she charged me a ... "contribution".