{"id":33750,"date":"2018-07-18T16:23:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pockettactics.com\/articles\/stockpile-mobile-announced-beta\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T16:23:28","slug":"digidiced-bringing-economic-boardgame-stockpile-to-mobile-beta-signups-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/07\/18\/digidiced-bringing-economic-boardgame-stockpile-to-mobile-beta-signups-available\/","title":{"rendered":"DIGIDICED bringing economic boardgame Stockpile to mobile, beta signups available"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Joe Robinson<\/span> 18 Jul 2018<\/span> <\/p>\n

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A couple of weeks ago we learned that DIGIDICED were working on a digital adaption of Castles of Burgundy<\/em><\/a>, and now it seems they\u2019re working on another digital board game title as well.<\/p>\n

Stockpile<\/em><\/a> is an economic themed board game that revolves around stocks and trading, with the player possessing the most money at the end of a game being crowned the winner. You are acting as stock market investors at the end of the 20th<\/sup> century, with a key mechanic being that everyone knows something about the stock market, but no-one knows everything.<\/p>\n

This is manifested in two ways: insider information, and the \u2018stockpile\u2019 itself. The first is the more obvious:<\/p>\n

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[Inside information] dictates how a stock\u2019s value will change at the end of the round. By privately learning if a stock is going to move up or down, each player has a chance to act ahead of the market by buying or selling at the right time.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

As for the second, players purchase their stocks by bidding on piles of cards which are known as \u2018stockpiles\u2019. These will contain a mixture of face-up cards with a smattering of face-down cards that have been put there by other players, so no single player knows what ever card in a pile is:<\/p>\n

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Not all cards are good either. Trading fees can poison the piles by making players pay more than they bid. By putting stocks and other cards up for auction,\u00a0Stockpile\u00a0<\/em>catalyzes player interaction, especially when potential profits from insider information are on the line.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The currently advertised features of Stockpile<\/em>\u00a0digital include:<\/p>\n