Wig Street™ is an investing RPG game; bringing the obscure world of finance to people of all ages in a fun way.
Since the best lessons are taught through experience, a sandbox environment works well; a place to fail or succeed, but ultimately to learn.
As it turns out, learning complicated things can involve a lot of pain 🙁. Here’s what we are looking to avoid:
- Real risk
- Extreme complexity
- Impossible scale
It’s worth noting that even the relatively simple game of chess has trillions of possible outcomes 😯. Real-world markets involve important claims on the assets of large organizations, involve limitless factors and near perfect competition; so how can the average person participate and learn 🤷🏽♀️?
Fortunately the year is 2021 
and there are new ways we can learn, grow, and empower people. To spread knowledge efficiently (and maximize fun), we believe a solution should be:
- Widely-accessible
- Versatile
- Understandable
For these reasons, Wig Street is a free game available to anyone with a phone, includes many financial concepts, and is skillfully simplified. 🧙🏼♂️
The beauty of Wig Street lies in its core principles which mimic reality in the most enjoyable way.
Similar to the game Stardew Valley by ConcernedApe, players’ activities drive the experience. As a real-time investing game, players may buy and sell stocks or bonds, borrow money, or perhaps read up on the latest news. Wig Street introduces players to an entirely new world 🌐 known as Lucratia where the competition are a faction of wealthy elite known as the big wigs – along with other players of course 🤼!
A few of the most exciting elements of the game include:
- Player-trading drives all market prices 🔄
- Companies and big wigs driven by A.I. 🤖
- Procedurally-generated news 📰
- Leaderboard rankings; show-off character aesthetics earned 🕶
- More in-depth learning is always available by clicking the in-game info icon ℹ️
The world of Lucratia is old and distant in the universe. Operating as one unified commonwealth, it has traditionally held a closed market exchange – unavailable to any but the big wigs; due to recent regulation, the exchange has finally opened up to the public.
You are not a big wig; now that can change.