Description

Congrats on your new job! Welcome to the first-person world of a mid-level stockbroker, as you begin your very first day at the trading firm FERIOS. You’ve probably wanted this job since you were six, right? Well, so have a lot of people… so you'll have to fight for it and prove that you're the top dog for the job!

Just remember: profit is all that matters, the rules don’t apply if you’re a winner, and only losers feel guilty for the pain, loss and poverty that are the unfortunate but unavoidable by-product of the critical and important work we do here.

Features

BUY, SELL, AND SHORT

It’s simple: your job is to make money for FERIOS. Buy the stocks going up, sell before they go down. Short the ones that are going to fall (or the ones you’re going to make fall). The more money you make, the bigger your commission. And you want that commission, don't you? Well don’t worry, the rewards are limitless, if you’re hungry enough.

MANIPULATE THE MARKET

If you’re really smart, you’ll find ways to influence the market to your advantage. Think you can lobby an influential group to affect the market? Do it. Get an opportunity to acquire majority shares to move the needle? Take it. Drive down the currency of a foreign country to improve the margins of the companies that import their products? Why not? The only consequences that matter are the ones that impact our bottom line.

IT’S NOT INSIDER TRADING IF YOU DON’T GET CAUGHT

Every Joe Schmo has access to the regular news. If you want to get ahead of the spikes and crashes you’ll need to find the inside line from more, shall we say, “exclusive” sources. And definitely don’t let those rumors of a financial investigation get you down. No one employed by FERIOS has ever been found guilty!

YOU’RE A WINNER! WHO CARES ABOUT LOSERS?

We’re one big happy team here at Ferios and nothing brings the team together like competition. So in the spirit of togetherness you better meet your daily profit targets and beat your coworkers’ results if you want to keep your job. We won’t hesitate to fire anyone who can’t or won’t do what it takes to succeed...

IMAGINE ALL THE REWARDS THAT AWAIT YOU

The fruits of success are yours for the taking. Fast cars, lavish parties, fancy apartments filled with beautiful furniture and artworks. Of course, for any truly successful trader, work is its own reward and their true home is the office so it’s a good thing you can decorate your desk with photos of all your wonderful things to remind you they exist.

Developer

Unabashedly political, Power Struggle Games is a French game development collective cheekily intent on dismantling Capitalism from the inside, through games.

Organically mutating into a working studio, development trio Benjamin Martin (Game Designer & Lead Programmer), Nicolas Muller (Creative Director & Unity Expert) and Plule (Game-feel Visionary) have a passion for numbers that go up and interactive experiences that elicit discourse about contemporary society and economic injustice.

Conceived in 2015, The Invisible Hand is the collective’s first major game project.

Power Struggle Games - Developer

Benjamin Martin
Creation & Programming

Nicolas Muller
Creation & Programming

plule
Creation & Programming

Will O’Neill
Narrative Design & Writing

Felix Watson
Composer

Finn Bennet
Additional Music

Nick Roder
Additional Music

Fellow Traveller Games - Publisher

Chris Wright
Managing Director

Stephen Gray
Business Manager

Fiona Murray
Finance Manager

Felix Kramer
Scout

Marla Fitzsimmons
Marketing Manager

Suzanne Wallace
Brand Manager

Ame Searle
Marketing Coordinator

Ashley Nicollette
Content Marketing Manager

Des Gayle
Production Manager

Louis Li
Associate Producer