Made a casual trading game you can play in the browser

[ponzy.io]

Hey everyone, I made a small browser game where you trade against other players in a 10 minute free-for-all, player with the most cash at the end wins.

Not sure if you guys would be interested in it, but maybe it could be something to do when you have a few minutes to kill. I made this game because sometimes I get the urge to do some random "trading" when really I just want to make some numbers go up and down.

Here's the link: ​ponzy.io​​​

Give it a try and let me know what you think! There aren't many players on it yet so it's mostly bots at the moment.

[logfiles]

Interesting.

Can we have a slide for the quantity? Maybe from 0 to 100% so someone can easily just slight to the percentage they prefer to use for opening a trade instead of manually entering the values.

How about an option to disable the sounds? They sort of distract 

[ponzy.io]

Hey, thanks for checking out my game!

You can disable sounds in the settings (button in the top right), just set the volume slider to 0.

Currently working on a quantity slider, will add it in the next update.

Thanks for the feedback!

[jcojci]

Can you change the placement like image below?


I just feels that gives comfortably to set the price and others while they will see the market in their left side because we don't have to scroll to check the market and could set the buy or sell price directly.

That is just a little suggestion from me, you can consider that but don't feels anything.

[slaman29]

Haha cute. Feels like someone should have done this a long time ago (probably did, I just never saw). Anyone remember a stock trading game on PC many many years ago? Feel like I'm too old to waste my time like this but I bet you if you add like this as an educational game where terms and strategies can be made as missions people can 'learn' trading. Idea?

[ponzy.io]

Can you change the placement like image below?
https://www.talkimg.com/images/2026/08/17/U4oAgl.png

I just feels that gives comfortably to set the price and others while they will see the market in their left side because we don't have to scroll to check the market and could set the buy or sell price directly.

That is just a little suggestion from me, you can consider that but don't feels anything.

On your screen is everything vertically on top of each other and you have to scroll up/down to see everything?
I have it set to do that for narrower screens so things don't get squished, but maybe I need to tweak the breakpoints.
On wider screens you should be able to see everything side by side.
I'll keep this in mind, thanks for playing!

Haha cute. Feels like someone should have done this a long time ago (probably did, I just never saw). Anyone remember a stock trading game on PC many many years ago? Feel like I'm too old to waste my time like this but I bet you if you add like this as an educational game where terms and strategies can be made as missions people can 'learn' trading. Idea?

I'll think about this, right now the how-to-play page is a bit plain and doesn't really go in depth, I might add something more interactive and detailed in the future. Maybe add some achievements or something.

Thanks everyone for your comments!

[DPHOR]

I am actually a bit confused here and I would want to know more about this, now is this like an extension on the browser? Where someone could have to click on it and sign in? Such as to login with specific wallet connected to it or just an extension where you would login and began to trade? Honestly I wasn't able to click to the site as I am that afraid not to get fished by clicking some random link or site. Especially when it's something that is coming from a newbie user.

[ponzy.io]

I am actually a bit confused here and I would want to know more about this, now is this like an extension on the browser? Where someone could have to click on it and sign in? Such as to login with specific wallet connected to it or just an extension where you would login and began to trade? Honestly I wasn't able to click to the site as I am that afraid not to get fished by clicking some random link or site. Especially when it's something that is coming from a newbie user.

It's just a game on a website, no downloads or signups or anything.
It's a casual for-fun game, there's no real money or wallets involved.
Just short 10 minute games where you compete to get the most points, everything resets at the end of each game.

[batang_bitcoin]

Nice, I just thought that the name isn't that unique and appealing at all. I guess that you know what I meant when there's something negative related to the other name for that "i" replacing that y.

It's a casual for-fun game, there's no real money or wallets involved.
Just short 10 minute games where you compete to get the most points, everything resets at the end of each game.

Keep it up. Are there future features that you're thinking to add?

[savetheFORUM]

I have played it a bit. One problem is that buying and selling has basically no limits and breaks the game. I just simply bought and sold, I bought and the price went up, then I sold and price went down, and each time I made a profit, and at one point, I had trillions. That makes no sense, there needs to be a situation where you can't control the entire market. If I buy and it goes up more than what I bought, and I just sell each time, then I would repeat buy and sell repeatedly forever and I would have needless money, which is exactly what happened, I had trillions of dollars because of this simple move. You can't do that in real life, you can't just buy and sell repeatedly and keep making profit each time.

Also, I got bored and wanted to test what happens if I just keep on selling, and keep on buying, I bought so much that the price just went up to hundreds of thousands, and then I sold and I got go to minus, which means that I could sell what I do not have as well, and at one point I literally had millions of this "owed" as well, funny method, sure people can short, but not THAT much. So the price reached few cents only, so of course I bought it all back and got rich again. Simply put, the market economics of the game isn't what it should be.

[ponzy.io]

I have played it a bit. One problem is that buying and selling has basically no limits and breaks the game. I just simply bought and sold, I bought and the price went up, then I sold and price went down, and each time I made a profit, and at one point, I had trillions. That makes no sense, there needs to be a situation where you can't control the entire market. If I buy and it goes up more than what I bought, and I just sell each time, then I would repeat buy and sell repeatedly forever and I would have needless money, which is exactly what happened, I had trillions of dollars because of this simple move. You can't do that in real life, you can't just buy and sell repeatedly and keep making profit each time.

Also, I got bored and wanted to test what happens if I just keep on selling, and keep on buying, I bought so much that the price just went up to hundreds of thousands, and then I sold and I got go to minus, which means that I could sell what I do not have as well, and at one point I literally had millions of this "owed" as well, funny method, sure people can short, but not THAT much. So the price reached few cents only, so of course I bought it all back and got rich again. Simply put, the market economics of the game isn't what it should be.

Thanks for playing the game and sharing feedback! Yeah, it's pretty easy to manipulate the market against the bots, especially if you're the only one in the game with nobody to compete with. In theory it should become more competitive if there are lots of players, but the game is pretty new and not that many people know about it. I made the game with the idea of allowing players a lot of power to move the market, since I think big numbers and ridiculous price movements are just more fun, but the game is pretty trivial to beat if there are no other real human players who know what they're doing. I made the bots pretty dumb because primarily this game is about playing against other players, the bots just give a bit of extra price movement and liquidity to keep things moving.

If you could find a friend or group of friends to play it might make the game more interesting, assuming they are actively trying to counteract you. For example, if you open a massive short position, someone could try to bankrupt you by buying up all of your sell orders and then trying to raise the price. Like real markets, they get more competitive as there are more participants.

I'm trying my best to spread the word and get more visibility on the game, I'm hoping at some point it gets enough players so that new players that join aren't greeted by an empty lobby with only bots.

Keep it up. Are there future features that you're thinking to add?

At this point I'm mostly focusing on making small quality of life changes to the UI, and trying to get more players to play the game. I think the biggest thing the game needs right now to improve player experience is to have more players.

[batang_bitcoin]

Keep it up. Are there future features that you're thinking to add?

At this point I'm mostly focusing on making small quality of life changes to the UI, and trying to get more players to play the game. I think the biggest thing the game needs right now to improve player experience is to have more players.

You can pull that one, and good luck. I guess this is where you'll have to do some more exposure through being active in trading forums or groups where people might be interested on it. Including some gaming forums too. When they find this game interesting and fun, their word of mouth is going to be the one to advertise it into other platforms.

[bitbollo]

it's a really funny game!
I had to be honest but looks really interesting for a quick game (like 10 minutes spend in a very funny way).

I just get one time bankupt but I was able to recover up to win the dynamic of the games are really funny -->
Can we organize some competitions between bitcointalk users ? It could be some funny playing against other users and just not bots... ok I would be online for awhile...

[Plutomanian]

Haha cute. Feels like someone should have done this a long time ago (probably did, I just never saw). Anyone remember a stock trading game on PC many many years ago? Feel like I'm too old to waste my time like this but I bet you if you add like this as an educational game where terms and strategies can be made as missions people can 'learn' trading. Idea?

Time is of the essence, we need to utilized it properly inother to grow, I don't see myself stopping or getting behind any other thing, we just concentrate more on our abilities and trying to fill in any void.

Gamifying financial feature will be one of the persuading ways to understand the space and also persuade beginners to start knowing about the space and becoming more independent. Gaming related to trading ought to be more intellectually and knowledge enchanced, atleast we get to understand ourselves and know exactly how to improve our knowledge, our risk management and other features.

[Zoomic]

The 10 minutes concept I think is the most interesting part of it. It makes it feel like a game that can be casually played.

If you're still working on the layout, I think you should consider having the chart and trading panel visible together on wider screens so to better give it that real trading interface.

It's fun to play and I'm okay with the sound but just like someone suggested above, you can put an option where it can be turned off. 

[Alphakilo]

The 10 minutes concept I think is the most interesting part of it. It makes it feel like a game that can be casually played.

If you're still working on the layout, I think you should consider having the chart and trading panel visible together on wider screens so to better give it that real trading interface.

It's fun to play and I'm okay with the sound but just like someone suggested above, you can put an option where it can be turned off. 

It's a nice concept I must say because it takes someone who actually thinks and acts immediately to achieve this feat, even though a bit of refinement is still needed. This game is good for those traders who get bored easily while watching candles and want to catch a quick break before continuing to trade instead of to go do other things and perhaps go to sleep.
Maybe if features like limit orders or shorting is introduced to expand the options of strategies to apply, instead of pure buying/selling, more traders would come to love it more and would not mind if the 10 minutes becomes 20 minutes of sort.

[justdimin]

The 10 minutes concept I think is the most interesting part of it. It makes it feel like a game that can be casually played.

If you're still working on the layout, I think you should consider having the chart and trading panel visible together on wider screens so to better give it that real trading interface.

It's fun to play and I'm okay with the sound but just like someone suggested above, you can put an option where it can be turned off. 

I agree, especially if you are a married person; most of the time you will not get an hour or two to play. Well, some friends I know do, but it is rare, and most of the time people want to spend time together with their partner. So if you are married and want to play a bit of a game, then you could just sit on the couch, and while you guys are watching something, you could have your phone in your hand and play this, quite fun. Or you could be just at the toilet and play this, instead of scrolling TikTok or whatever.

This is why I think it is quite fun, because it is only 10 minutes, and you get to play it whenever you want and be done with it very quickly. I still think there is room for improvement. I agree that it is easy to beat right now; I have finished in first place multiple times so far. It is easy to predict what the AI is trying to do; there are ones who are trying to collect as much as possible, while there are ones who are keeping selling, and the middle-class ones.

So it is easy to guess what it is doing and try to deal based on that. AI is not reacting based on the market; it is just simply doing what it is tasked to do, and if you know that, you beat it every single time and reach trillions. The game is fun, but AI has to be more difficult to beat.

[GeorgeJohn]

Hey everyone, I made a small browser game where you trade against other players in a 10 minute free-for-all, player with the most cash at the end wins.

We can't say that's a trading competition, rather we shall say, it's gambling with a mini budget and strategy..despite that trading looks like gambling but we shouldn't misunderstood it or mistaken it to gamble...

Not sure if you guys would be interested in it, but maybe it could be something to do when you have a few minutes to kill. I made this game because sometimes I get the urge to do some random "trading" when really I just want to make some numbers go up and down.

You would have done it in way that it will primarily looks like gambling instead of trading...because what you did, doesn't even look like ponz scheme, because ponzi is for you to invest and double whatever or the amount you invested...why anything that happens to be competition, is as similar as gambling...

Here's the link: ​ponzy.io​​​
Give it a try and let me know what you think! There aren't many players on it yet so it's mostly bots at the moment.

Not everyone can give it a trial, many people who is inquisitive in getting free things maybe the one that will give it a trial..I believe that for you to create this thread, you need a traffic, but this your platform doesn't look refined...

[snowpega]

I also tried the game. But I have a question which is that how do trading fundamentals work in this game? Like there need to be a supply on which basis the market pumps or dumps? Is there any backend algorithm fixed to maintain this feature? Or have you allocated a fixed number of supply in the game token? Which makes it pump or dump? I am asking this question so that it can totally relate to real-time trading while enjoying it in gaming mode haha. I think some can also learn, but need to keep in mind that this is just a game that can never relate to real-time things, right? By the way, you tools name gives me a strange vibe haha due to its name Ponzi haha.