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Realistic
Our culture is based on our material realities. This game is about how we relate to these material realities.
We attach our own meanings to our concepts of reality. The same is true for our material reality. Our dreams, our ideas of money, work, urgency, what's important, what's not important, how we negotiate, the values of objects, how we deal with success and failure, how we feel about money and those who have it- and those who don't, how we handle time and risk, our limits of what we can do to get what we want and need, how and where we live, our visions for ourselves are all unique, important and personal to each of us. And these perceptions keep changing as we face new and different situations- new realities.
So, how do our realities stack up against the realities of others? And how much potential do we have within our realities? We don't exactly know, but we do have an idea. We're in a bubble surrounded only by what we know and experience! No matter what we've done, seen, heard, believe and learned, we still don't know how we stack up against others; not to necessarily outdo them, but just to know where we stand, to know how we are doing.
What if we could experience a shared reality of creating value while taking our emotions on a random walk through the economic jungle of happiness, excitement, greed, frustration, jealousy, success, failure, fear, power, regret, anxiety, security and comfort? And what if we had some control while walking the tightrope between poverty and wealth, against time, others and the odds. We'd show 'em, right? Well, take your shot. This is your opportunity to put your reality up against the reality of others in the mysterious world of supply-demand, free-market economics. The better you play, the more of your "ifs" will be answered- and the better you'll feel knowing what you've always suspected- that you're pretty good when it comes to handling money and resources. But how good is good?
See how your personal economic reality compares to the reality of economics. Play with real free-market economics concepts. Playing well consistently means that you understand the fundamentals of personal economics. And understanding personal economics says that you have a handle on your economic self-awareness and a successful, future personal economic performance. This abstract-looking game with no words, is real enough to be the basis of an emerging economic self-development process, an accompanying book (now in manuscript form), and a going experimental economics college
course. That's about as real as it gets.