There are visual clues within the landscape that describe most every input into the game. Some are obvious like the signs saying "No Jobs, No Gas, Stop Taxes, Low Wages". Others are not so obvious, if you go through the help screen Uncle same will explain some of the visual cues, but I'll outline the biggest ones bellow.
Street - This actually represents the economy itself, walking uphill indicates economic expansion, downhill equates to contractions.
Grass Hills - Government Income
Redish Brown Hills - Government expenses
Clouds - These are tricky as they represent inflation, short term interest rates and long term interest rates. If you see the first cloud layer (inflation) overtake all the other layers there is a problem with inflation.
So when you perform an action (like raise taxes) it will have an effect these lines. In the case of raising taxes it will slow economic growth (the street) while raising government revenue (the green hills).
This "tea leaf" reading is intentional, though it might not be bad to provide solid (but lagging readings as are given in the real world) on values such as the tax rate, unemployment, fed funds rate, maybe gas prices. Not sure what others should be included.
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I've just quickly tried out the different game modi, and have read on what it's based etc.
You seem to have put a lot of effort in making this game
What I as player find difficult is that I have no "status quo" information about the different "features" (taxes, wages, costs, amounts etc.) - neither as numbers nor in another way. This throws me off.
I'm not sure if I can explain it well, but if I only have the options to increase or to decrease certain "features" without having an overview what is how high at the moment, then I just get confused. You understand what I mean?
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US Debt Game
US Debt Game
See if you can get the USA out of debt, or at least make it until the year 2031. The game starts in 2010 with current economic conditions and broadly models the overall economy. Do you have what it takes to navigate your way out of Debt?
Res: 700x500
SWF: http://usdebtgame.com/game/DebtGame.swf
Playable Links:
http://apps.facebook.com/usdebtgame/
http://usdebtgame.com/
Feedback Would be appreciated!
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