The Stock Market Game

Business and Investing Games

The Stock Market Game
Online Educational Stock Market Trading and Investing Simulation Game

Continuing with our series on investing, finance and business games, here we review a valuable interactive educational program that takes place over ten weeks - called The Stock Market Game. It is designed for students from Kids to Teenagers to learn the principles of financial and business investment in a business and stock market simulation game context. A small registration fee may be required and the front page is shown in the picture.

The skills taught in The Stock Market business and stock market investing simulation game include:

• Mathematics: including calculation and estimating skills, amounts of money, stock graphs, and charts.



• Economics: including financial markets and institutions, such as the stock exchange and bond market, principles of business supply and demand, profit and loss, opportunity cost, and the operation of stock and capital markets.



• Personal Business and Finance: financial budgeting, investing, financial and business decision-making



• Social Sciences: including economics, government, world history, U.S. history, geography, and current events



• Business Education: including decision-making, overview of the securities markets and industry, business organization, financial and business record-keeping, investing, marketing, finance, financial statements and stock market simulation.



• Technology: including computer skills, Internet for online research, data entry, email, keyboarding skills, financial and investing simulation and online trading.

Game Data:

Name: The Stock Market GameCategory: Educational business simulation, stock market simulation, investing games.
Instructor Materials: Yes
Ages: Students
Multiplayer: Yes
Cost: Fee

Virtual Stock Exchange

Business and Investing Games


Virtual Stock Exchange
From MarketWatch
Online Stock Exchange Trading Investing Simulation Game

Virtual Stock Exchange provides an online finance, stock exchange trading and business game, originally from Marketwatch.com. Players in the Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE) game can set the parameters of their stock trading simulation, invite other players to join in and participate in unlimited stock and business game play. Its genre is stock market financial investing games.

The object of Virtual Stock Exchange is to create a financial portfolio consisting of shares of publicly traded companies, and have a realistic simulation of participation in stock and financial market trading. Players create their own financial portfolios, and then manage the stock and financial portfolio in the business game simulation, with the object of having stock market appreciation and income. This stock trading game is designed to get students and investors interested in stock trading, the stock and bond exchange, and in the news and research services available from MarketWatch or other sponsors.

In order to play, go to the game site for Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE), fill in the registration form, choose or create a new stock trading simulation game and then start setting up stock trading portfolio consisting of New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), NASDAQ, or American Stock Exchange (AMEX) stocks. Players have access to stock market and economic news and research from MarketWatch.

To get started playing Virtual Stock Exchange, players can create their own stock market simulation games by setting starting balances, margin requirements, volume limitations, start date, end date, etc. Alternatively, Virtual Stock Exchange players can join an existing game, or be invited to join a private stock trading game.

Game Data:

Name: Virtual Stock Exchange (VSE)
Category: Online Stock Exchange Trading, and Financial Portfolio Management Business Simulation Game
Ages: Students, Adults
Software: Web Browser
Multiplayer: Yes
Cost: Free

Hot Shot Business

Business and Investing Games

Disney's Hot Shot Business
Online Business Simulation Game

Hot Shot Business is an online business simulation game from Disney.com. Players pick among different businesses to start and play to success online. Examples are a pet shop online business, a skate park business, a comic shop business and a skate park business, as shown in the screen picture.

Game Data:

Name: Hot Shot Business
Category: Online Business Simulation Game
Ages: Kids-Teens
Software: Web Browser
Multiplayer: No
Cost: Free

PerfectCompetition.Net

Business and Investing Games

PerfectCompetition.net Online Business Simulation Game.

Perfect Competition is a multi-player interactive online game. In a sense, the PerfectCompetition.net business game is a MMORPG, or massively multiple multiple player online game simulation. Players simulate business and stock trading success. The PerfectCompetion.net online business game is played via a browser. Players can create the business, and operate it or hire and fire managers, executives, CEOs, all of whom are other players in the game. It is like Donald Trump’s Apprentice, but in which the players are Donald Trump himself – hiring and firing managers, getting financing, setting prices, choosing suppliers, choosing business or real estate locations, buying and selling real estate, taking out business loans to finance the business, such as from banks.

Players of the PerfectCompetition.net online business game also can invest a extra cash in stocks and bonds. The PerfectCompetion.net business game has a share trading system that functions like a real stock market. Sellers offer stock shares for sale on the stock market and buyers bid on the stock shares, setting the price for the stocks. In other words the stock prices fluctuate depending upon demand, just like in the real stock exchange.

After each round of online game play, the PerfectCompetition.net game system ranks the players. For example, in one competition, the winner made $38,000,000 in play cash. In another round, the winner had $214,000,000 in cash.

The PerfectCompetition.net online business game was designed via consultation with entrepreneurs and economists. All aspects of real business are simulated, including economics, competitive game theory, accounting, finance, investing, business administration and marketing and human resources management. Among the functions are:

• Create a company


• Manage the company as CEO


• Manage the company as a manager


• Manage employees


• Hiring


• Firing


• Creating new business units


• Closing business subsidiaries


• Inventory control


• Choosing goods


• Running Research R&D


• Buying and selling real estate


• Transportation management


• Running an apartment real estate business


• Choosing suppliers


• Setting prices for the business or setting rents


• Marketing and Product branding


• Paying taxes for the business


• Monitoring the economy


• Investing


• Corporate Finance


• Stock market investing, stock and bond trading on the stock exchange


• Analyze financial statements

Game Data:

Name: PerfectCompetition.net Business Game
Category: Online Business Simulation Game
Software: Web Browser
Multiplayer: Yes
Cost: Low

Flash Element TD Strategy

The Flash Element TD online game is a fun and yes addictive Warcraft tower defense type of game. Here are some more hints, tips, cheats and strategy for the Flash Element TD game.

Previously at Just Online Games:

• Play Flash Element TD game
right here.


• Our review of the Flash Element TD Game, with tricks, tips, strategy, cheats.

There now are zillions of Flash Element TD tower defense game play videos floating around. We picked out some of the most instructional videos on Flash Element TD game higher level strategy, tips and cheats if you call them that.

Through way too extensive experimentation we have found three strategies and the average point range that is attained:

Combo Tower Defense Weapons: In this Flash Element TD game strategy, you build combo towers. It is a lot of fun, but requires using woods to research each type of weapon - without accumulating interest. The result is a relatively low score potential. In this Flash Element TD game strategy or cheat or trick, you use your woods to buy each successive weapon research, buy all three and then start building combo weapon towers as needed. The optimal location for the combo weapon towers in Flash Element TD game is in the center of the maze because of their large range. Always upgrade because the fire much more quickly. Watch them blast away at the baddie creeps. A lot of fun. In the earlier rounds, use fire towers and arrow towers, or cannon towers. Then in the last round, start selling everything you can before the last baddie creep is eliminated, so you can get more gold interest. If you are really good at this, you can get up to the 20,000 s of points. Not that great, but a lot of fun.

Here is a combo tower Flash Element TD strategy, using overlapping combo towers at the center of the roads, and a lot of water towers spread around the paths to slow down the baddie creeps. We have found that if you want to build up a lot of points, avoid combo towers, and instead use woods to buy interest, and maybe fire towers. But combo towers are a lot of fun!



Fire Tower Defense Weapon Strategy: In this Flash Element TD tower defense game strategy or cheats if you call it that, research fire towers with the first or second wood. Then start placing the fire towers at strategic locations and upgrading as needed. Remember not to buy or upgrade more than you need, since the more gold saved, the more interest earned. Among our favorite locations for the fire tower defense weapon trick is the upper right of the maze. We also like the lower right where the baddie creeps have to slow down. Use the overlapping tower trick to really pack them in. In the last round, start selling like crazy at the end to get more final round gold interest. If you really play this strategy smart, you can get 70,000 - 100,000+ gold in the end. Pretty good, but not the most lucrative Flash Element TD tower defense game gold accumulation strategy.

Cannon Tower Defense Weapons Strategy: With this strategy rely exclusively on cannon towers, with air or fire towers as needed on air rounds. In this Flash Element TD tower defense game strategy you have to use the overlapping weapon tower trick. Basically build canon towers like crazy. Our favorite spots are the uppper right and lower left, as with the fire tower defense strategy. By the end though you have covered the whole maze with canon towers anyway. This strategy we find is not as much fun, but produces the highest gold point scores if done well. 100,000 gold is easily attainable and 170,000-250,000 can be reached too, all without Flash Element TD hacks or cheats :)

Here are some other Flash Element TD Tower Defense game tricks, tips, hints, not cheats:

• Sell weapons not needed for next rounds



• Overlap weapons



• Use woods to buy interest, not weapons upgrades, until later rounds



• Position weapons in upper right of board



• Use cannons, and on air rounds buy a lot of air cannons and sell them at end of round

Water Attractors

Water Attractors

Another Gravity Online Game

Second in Our Series of Online Gravity Games and Physics Games

Water Attractors Online Gravity Game - Strategy, hints, tricks

Water Attractors is like the Attractors free online gravity game, which we reviewed previously (follow the link). The strategy and play is similar to that in Attractors, except the water particles are a bit slower, and are weighted more heavily. Like Attractors, you can play the Water Attractors online game for hours, trying different arrangements of play paddles and gravity planets. We have some strategy, tricks and tips for this game (not cheats) in the review of Attractors and they apply to Water Attractors, with some variations accounting for the different physical characteristics of the water drops.

In Water Attractors, the paths of the water drops are shown with blue tails, almost like comets, and they form game designs on the screen. The Water Attractors gravity water drops are shot out at the top left and then then go down towards paddles - the planets serving to attract and alter their paths.

Here are some of the tips, tricks, hints and strategies for the Water Attractors online gravity game.

• Attractors Paddle Arrangements: The paddles can be moved or tilted. Play with them a bit to try different arrangements.



• See Saw: You can get most of the Water Attractors water drops balls to balance on a paddle like a see saw and put the planets above. However, there are a few that are heavier, and we have not gotten the to remain balanced yet.



• Close-Paddles - Lean the paddles so one is almost vertical and the other is facing it. Tilt one slightly and the Water Attractors water drops slide in between them. Use the planets to pull towards one side or the other..



• Endless loop: An endless loop can almost be created placing the two planets close to each other. However, some droplets are heavier and others too light to remain in orbit and tend to get loose. Position the paddles in a "V" shape to keep the droplets in orbit.

You can play the game here: Water Attractors Online Gravity and Physics Game.

Attractors - Gravity Game

Attractors - Playing With Gravity Online Game

First in a Series of Online Gravity Games and Physics Games

Strategy, hints, tricks for the Attractors Online Gravity Game

Attractors is a fun, free, online gravity or physics game. You can play this game for hours, trying different arrangements of planets, paddles and weighted balls. We have some strategy, tricks and tips for this game (not cheats).

The basic idea of the Attractors gravity game (physics game) is that dozens of gravity balls having different weights are shot out of the upper left corner, towards the right. Following the rules of physics, the Attractors gravity balls follow arcuate paths down, reflecting the increasing speed as gravity has on any falling ball. The paths of the gravity balls are shown in sticky trails, forming game designs on your play surface.

The Attractors gravity game balls are shot out and then go down towards paddles. Two game paddles are provided that the player can arrange in any fashion. In addition, there are two planets in the Attractors game. The two planets in the Attractors gravity game, or physics game, have a high mass and tend to attract the gravity game balls. So the paths of the game balls are altered by the positions of the Attractions gravity game planets.

Try different arrangements of planets and paddles to create different patterns. Remember the basic laws of physics, momentum and gravity and you can create stunning artworks. Here are some strategy hints and tricks for the Attractors gravity or physics game.

• Attractors Paddle Arrangements: The paddles can be moved or tilted. Play with them a bit to try different arrangements.



• Close-Paddles - Lean the paddles so one is almost vertical and the other is facing it. Tilt one slightly and the Attractors gravity balls slide in between them. You can use the gravity planets to pull them towards one side.



• Endless loop: Position the two gravity planets close to each other near the gravity ball source. This channels the balls between them, and then position a paddle directly underneath. The balls all stay above the paddle as the gravity planets attract the balls, and any getting loose bounce back up off the paddle. Looks like an atom. Eventually you can move the paddle downwards and the gravity balls stay within the gravitational attraction of the planets for a long time.



• See Saw: You can get the Attractors gravity balls to balance on a paddle like a see saw and put the planets above.

You can play the game here: Attractors Playable Gravity Game.

LOTRO Lord Of The Rings Online Game: Shadows of Angmar

Lord Of The Rings Online Game
LOTRO
Shadows of Angmar

Huge MMORPG
Guide, Preview, Tricks, No Cheats ;)

In what promises to be one of the biggest MMORPG games (Massively Multiple Player Online Role Playing Game), the Lord of the Rings franchise is set to enter the Arena. It promises groundbreaking graphics and the most realistic opportunity to explore and live in Middle Earth possible with today's wide-area technology.

Known as LOTRO for short, the Lord of the Rings online game is set in the Middle Earth of J.R.R. Tolkein's famous Hobbit and Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The MMORPG game has been developed by Turbine, Inc. jointly with Vivendi Universal Games online. The first installment of the game is called "Shadows of Angmar".

Presently the LOTRO online game has not "officially" been released. However you can play the "beta" release by signing on to the LOTRO.com official website and clicking on the sign up button. With 300,000 pre-release players, it is widely expected Lord of the Rings Online - LOTRO - will have several million players by the close of its first year in wide release. Eventually it is expected to rival Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings film trilogy's $3 billion via subscriptions and software sales.

The Shadows of Angmar Lord of the Rings Online game seeks to distinguish itself from other MMORPG games by featuring lush landscapes, hobbit villages, evil armies and the familiar characters of Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy and the hit movies. Because the characters and scenes are familiar to a vast audience already LOTRO is likely to expand the universe of online game players. Perhaps cannon fodder for the experienced players, but watch out they will learn fast! Like the World of Warcraft with 8 million players, LOTRO provides a huge world of rich context and color that can be explored for days, weeks and months.

For the first installment of the Lord of the Rings online game (LOTRO), Turbine has created Shadows of Angmar - set in Tolkien's Middle Earth at the time of Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring after Frodo Baggins and his LOTRO crew have left the Shire.

In the beta release, there are 7 playable classes and 4 different races although expansion is expected.

The playable classes of people of the Lord of the Rings Online game (LOTRO) include:

• Burglar


• Captain


• Champion


• Guardian


• Hunter


• Lore-Master


• Minstrel

Yet, the most fascinating aspect of the Lord Of The Rings Online game is the races. These LOTRO races are modelled after J.R.R. Tolkein's fascinating species of people:

• Hobbits - of course!


• Elf


• Dwarf


• Man - human beings.

Each character is outfitted with potential armor, weapons and skills.

Like other MMORPG's the Lord of the Rings Online game will feature Player on Player (PvP) combat, but the emphasis is on Player versus Environment (PvE) combat and storyline adventures. Raids will have multiple players up to 24, but expected to rise as the Lord of the Rings Online game LOTRO attracts more players. There also are crafting professions and gathering professions.

The official online game site is at the Lord of the Rings LOTRO online site.

(Photos from LOTRO.com)

Official Line Rider Videos

In the spirit of continuing to improve official InXile Line Rider Game (LineRider) skills and develop more Line Rider game tips, tricks, strategies, and just plain old ideas, I’ve continued to look for some more great Line Rider videos. Here at two of the recent best amazing Line Rider videos coming since our last posts on the Line Rider online game. Check them out here: Line Rider Game and Best Line Rider Videos.

The first recent LineRider video has incredible graphic and rider track detail and soundtrack. It is called “TechDawg Labs”. Might the author be a Georgia Bull-Dawg ...




Another good recent LineRider video is Along The Rooftops Line Rider 3D game:

Cathy's Book Game Video

Previously I reviewed the Cathy's Book alternative reality online game. The Cathy's Book game starts when you call the phone number 650-266-8233. I found a trailer for the online game on YouTube and here it is: