googledaq v1.0.0
GoogleDAQ
An idle game where you trade stocks in Google Trends
Introduction
GoogleDAQ is a game about trading stocks in Google Trends. Your goal is to buy stocks in a search term and sell those stocks when their price peaks. The more Google searches for that search term there are, the higher the price of the stock will be. For example, you could buy stocks in "super bowl" in late January of 2020, and sell them on February 2, 2020, when the stock will peak due to people googling that term.
The price of stocks reset at the beginning of every day, unlike the actual stock market, so to prevent you from simply buying any stock at the beginning of a day and selling it at the end of the day for a guaranteed profit, the current day will only be factored in if the stock price is higher than the previous day. Keep in mind that Google Trends uses the UTC time zone (displayed at the top of the game), so the day starts at 12:00am UTC.
You only start off with $100, so you won't be able to buy any of the big stocks, so start with something small. Maybe it's a weekend and you want to invest in something that you think people will be more likely to search on a weekday.
Screenshots (click to enlarge)
Downloading
There are releases for Linux and Windows (macOS builds coming soon).
Project structure
- http/ Graph/ index.tsx chart.js wrapper component Header/ History/ index.sass styles for history component index.tsx history component index.sass styles for header index.tsx header component Introduction/ index.sass styles for introduction index.tsx introduction component Open Sans/ contains Open Sans font files Search/ index.tsx search and buy component Stock/ index.sass styles for stock component index.tsx stock component Utils/ index.tsx renders money and percentages index.html entry html document index.sass styles for root elements index.tsx root component trends.ts * calculates stock price for search queries
- screenshots/ * contains screenshots for readme
- googledaq.ico * icon for Windows .exe files
- googledaq.png * icon for header and linux .desktop files
- main.js * electron file
- unlicense * public domain license
5 years ago