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The Invisible Hand

Power Struggle Games Developer

Fellow Traveller Publisher

2021-05-07 Release

Strategy Simulation SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 29

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

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https://www.fellowtraveller.games/the-invisible-hand/

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October Board Update

Hi there! Welcome to our first monthly developer update, known as the Board Update, to let you know how things are progressing on The Invisible Hand. For the past few months we've been working on content production, blending market mechanics and narration with the help of our masterfully crafted master script by Will O'Neill and music composed by Felix Watson. This is complex work as we're giving players a lot of freedom to act in opposition to the narrative, and want them to feel seen, while not going down too many narrative branches before our endings. We're achieving this by creating small branches that are quickly resolved and put back on track of the main branch, storing information about players' choices that affect the ending.
People can get angry if you don't do what you're told In October, we worked on polish and bug fixes as development was slowed down due to health issues of our main developer, Ben. A round of playtest organized by one of our producers, Louis, brought a ton of good ideas. We decided to slow down the rhythm of the game a bit by making in-game days a bit longer. This is more work than it sounds like, as we had to rework timing for events in a lot of places. Weve been reluctant to do this in the past because we liked having players feel pressured by time, but it was getting in the way of understanding and enjoying mechanics for a lot of players, so we caved to the lobbying. Thanks for tuning into this Board Report, we appreciate the ongoing confidence and support of our cherished shareholders, and we assure you that together, well make more money than you can imagine. See you next month! Follow us on Twitter
A little story beat we are working on...

[ 2020-11-04 12:11:27 CET ] [ Original post ]

Congrats on your new job! Welcome to the first-person world of a mid-level stockbroker, as you begin your very first day at the trading firm FERIOS. You’ve probably wanted this job since you were six, right? Well, so have a lot of people… so you'll have to fight for it and prove that you're the top dog for the job!

Just remember: profit is all that matters, the rules don’t apply if you’re a winner, and only losers feel guilty for the pain, loss and poverty that are the unfortunate but unavoidable by-product of the critical and important work we do here.

It’s simple: your job is to make money for FERIOS. Buy the stocks going up, sell before they go down. Short the ones that are going to fall (or the ones you’re going to make fall). The more money you make, the bigger your commission. And you want that commission, don't you? Well don’t worry, the rewards are limitless, if you’re hungry enough.

If you’re really smart, you’ll find ways to influence the market to your advantage. Think you can lobby an influential group to affect the market? Do it. Get an opportunity to acquire majority shares to move the needle? Take it. Drive down the currency of a foreign country to improve the margins of the companies that import their products? Why not? The only consequences that matter are the ones that impact our bottom line.

Every Joe Schmo has access to the regular news. If you want to get ahead of the spikes and crashes you’ll need to find the inside line from more, shall we say, “exclusive” sources. And definitely don’t let those rumors of a financial investigation get you down. No one employed by FERIOS has ever been found guilty!

We’re one big happy team here at Ferios and nothing brings the team together like competition. So in the spirit of togetherness you better meet your daily profit targets and beat your coworkers’ results if you want to keep your job. We won’t hesitate to fire anyone who can’t or won’t do what it takes to succeed...

The fruits of success are yours for the taking. Fast cars, lavish parties, fancy apartments filled with beautiful furniture and artworks. Of course, for any truly successful trader, work is its own reward and their true home is the office so it’s a good thing you can decorate your desk with photos of all your wonderful things to remind you they exist.