Together with Raiffeisen-Landesbank Steiermark AG, I spent the past year developing the financial education game fit2invest. Publicly available under fit2invest.at, the German-language game takes players back to sometime in the last 50 years of mark history and lets them experience (and make decisions in) the stock and bond markets. Players have to dynamically shift their investments between the markets and a savings account and only at the end of the game learn which time period they just experienced. Once the players have played the game at least once, they get access to the “training area” in which users can learn about such diverse finance topics as diversification, inflation, the effect of time on investment success, etc. While the game currently addresses the general public as its audience, we are currently working on an education version, which teachers will be able to use in class to teach investment-related topics to their pupils.
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