StockTicker Game

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News

StockTicker is being used as an educational tool at the Alberta Securities Commission to teach students about investing. More information can be gathered at the ASC Investor Education page (link missing on that page currently). It is also featured on the British Columbia Securities Commission’s Planning 10 education website.

Background

This game was a team project created for one of my college courses (Comp4550 : Object Oriented Analysis And Design). This game is based on the “StockTicker” board game by Canada Games. We received a perfect 100% mark (mostly for our design) for our project. This game was created in a span of 3 months, using C++ and the MFC classes. All the characters used in the game are copyright their respectful owners. The other members of the team were Alun Woolliams, Susan Winter, and Kevin Sorensen.

What about the source code?

Unfortunately I am not the sole author of the program, thus I am unable to release the source code to the game to anyone at all without the permission of the other authors (whom I don’t have current contact numbers as of this moment). I’m glad that people out there are enjoying the game, but I doubt the source code will be released in the near future. Besides I am wary of people wanting source code to the game because there is potential for abuse (for their own school projects).

Release history

Version 1.32 (Sept 27 2003):

  • absolutely no more memory leaks (99.99% hopefully fixed) :)
  • changed installer to have license agreement (missing from 1.31)

Version 1.31 (Dec 16 2002):

  • portfolio values for all players are updated after an iteration of dice rolls, instead of just the currently showing player (thanks to an educator at the Alberta Securities Commission for pointing out the bug)

Version 1.3 (May 29 2001):

  • fixed “memory cannot be referenced” errors after exiting the game
  • changed combo-box for choosing/removing a player to a drop-down list
  • removed limit of only 10 players in the game
  • AVI dice roll videos are integrated into the executable instead of as separate files
  • fixed spelling/grammar errors in the help file
  • the game summary dialog shows the total portfolio value of the winner, as well as sorting the list of runners up from next highest portfolio value to the lowest
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  1. the Money Bag says:
    March 5, 2011 at 8:40 am

    Thanks for the free download. I’m an investment advisor and I want to create some educational seminars for women wanting investment knowledge. I’m trying to figure out how to incorporate a game of some sort into the lesson. I won’t use your program directly but I appreciate the concept. Since the original “Stock Picket Game” is out of print this is a helpful tool.