The Invisible Hand News

Great news. All of your stock market questions can now be answered by The Invisible Hand developers!

After all, we are making a game about the stock market!

Come hang out in the Fellow Traveller Discord, as we answer your questions about our game and what on earth it means to short a stock.

After all, now is the time to be googling words about the stockmarket, but it doesn't mean that a short squeeze makes any more sense the more times you read it.

You can play the demo of The Invisible Hand during the Steam Game Festival until Feb 9, and decide for yourself if the cost of making money is worth what it costs.

Especially if you've been following The News this week, there's a good chance you'll be interested in The Invisible Hand. No, you can't buy Gamespot stock with it. But you do get to the play the stockmarket and deal with the consequences of it, but you know, not IRL.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/628200/The_Invisible_Hand/

GAMESPOT STOCK. SHORT SQUEEZE.

If you've had to google any of these words in the last week, there's a good chance you'll be interested in The Invisible Hand. No, you can't buy Gamespot stock with it. But you do get to the play the stockmarket and deal with the consequences of it, but you know, not IRL.

We'll be playing through The Invisible Hand, and showing off just what it looks like to be a mid-level stockbroker, pursuing wealth and success at the cost of everything else.... possibly even your freedom.

Don't miss the gameplay livestream!

You can play the demo of The Invisible Hand during the Steam Game Festival until Feb 9, and decide for yourself if the cost of making money is worth what it costs.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/628200/The_Invisible_Hand/

Hello and happy new year to our beloved shareholders. With the coming year, our primary goal is to reach new heights, for a successful 2021. And as we all know, a pillar of success is buying yachts and doing frivolous things on them, another key goal for 2021.

Ignorance is blissful but information is power
Far removed from the physical and mental concerns of the lower class, our moneyed friends occasionally gather in swell environments to network and discuss the matters of the masters, while consuming recreational substances. We wanted to integrate a representation of this fascinating ritual of sociological interest. But don’t think it’s all fun and games. Important information is shared and secret deals are made in those places.

When nothing goes right, go left.

Funneling what’s trickling down
Capitalism has a tendency to favor those who are already established. Once you are rich enough, we’ll let you access a *re-distributive* feature of modern finance: dividends. You give money to a company, and they regularly give you a little less money in return. If you maintain your positions well, after some time, you’ll be out of work but you’ll still get paid just because you own those pieces of privatized power we call shares. This is trickle-down economics. You just have to make sure it stops trickling down at your level.

If you made a cent for every manufactured bullet, well that’d just be bad cause war is not cool.

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Howdy! We’re back here this month to humbly share our advancement with you, our precious shareholders.

Here’s a detailed infographic of how things are going:


As you can see, things are going great. Someone with big influence said one day, “Network Marketing is the wave of the future”.

Last month we went hard on implementing content to make the game playable from start to finish. We’re almost there, and right now the balancing is so off it’s actually funny to watch the market behave in a way we, the actual developers of the game, didn’t anticipate. Fortunately our advanced computer experience will make it easy for us to refine this into a well-paced and satisfying experience, up to industry standards, by orienting the odds in your favour. We value our shared interests.

You will experience relatively normal things in the game

We’re having fun implementing physically impossible character spawning to keep you on edge. Have you ever been scared by a coworker tapping on your shoulder while you’re focused on some important work stuff? We’re working on including it. Life in the office has its ups and downs, but we’re working on narrative beats and systems so it’s more ups than downs!

Is going out of the office really going to be a good time?

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Our publisher, Fellow Traveller is an indie games label publishing innovative story-driven games. Their newest game, Suzerain is out today!

Suzerain is a text based, political strategy game, where you play as the newly elected President of Sordland, following 20 year dictatorship. It’s 1954 and it’s your job to lead the country into an uncertain future.

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Navigate your first term through conversations with your cabinet members, colleagues and family. It’s up to you to decide who you will trust, what you will sacrifice and where your priorities lie.

Will you reform the constitution, transforming the Republic into a brutal dictatorship or true democracy? Align yourself with the capitalist of communist superpowers? Prepare for potential military threats on the horizon? Address racial minorities, women’s rights, the ongoing recession, immigration and all the other challenges and opportunities presented to a world leader.



If you love narrative games as much as we do, check out Suzerain on Steam!