Ride Your Favorite Stock Charts in This New Browser Game
"StonkRider" is a physics-based browser game that transforms real-time and historical stock price charts into playable motocross tracks. It turns financial market ups and downs into a fun way to interact with data.
Created as a creative side project, the game allows players to ride a bike over the charts of famous stocks like Tesla or GameStop. The "peaks" and "valleys" of the financial data become jumps and obstacles. Players can even ride through historical market crashes, turning famous financial disasters into challenging levels. It is a clever example of how to make data visualization interactive and engaging. For solo business owners, it shows how a unique twist on existing data can create a viral and shareable experience. The game runs directly in a web browser without needing any downloads.
Key points
- Uses real-time and historical stock "charts" to create game levels.
- Includes a special mode for legendary market crashes like Nokia and Cisco.
- Allows players to change time ranges to create different track layouts.
- Built as a creative way to engage with the stress of trading.
- Runs directly in the browser without any software installation.
Quick term guide
- Rice
- The hobby of visually customizing a computer desktop or operating system to make it look unique and personal.
- charts
- Visual graphs that show how numbers, like stock prices, change over time.
- side project
- A small project someone builds outside their main job or main business.
- data visualization
- A way to turn numbers or lists into visuals that are easier to understand.
- business
- An activity where you provide value to others in exchange for money.
- Owner
- The top account role that can usually change almost every setting.
- share
- A server folder made available to apps or other devices.
- diff
- A view that shows exactly what changed in the code.