Mad Barrington's Gyre

The bottle cap rolled haphazardly across Mad Barrington's knuckles, galumphing right and left before dropping under his fingertips and disappearing into the folds of his ragged fur coat. The coat alone would be enough reason to call him crazy, layers of clothes in the desert heat, but combined with his plan to restore his wealth and buy another sky castle with a few scrounged bottle caps and scraps of paper moved his condition towards certifiably insane. His former intern Flynt stood by his side, his gangly height towered over him and the crowd with an uneasy presence.

Category	Price	Seller	Device
Games	Free	Rudolf Pfenniger	iPhone, iPad, iPod

"The thing to remember, is that the Waggles-Roaches hate the Woggles-Roaches and the Wiggles-Roaches hate the Wuggles-Roaches. And those guys," Barrington added pointing at a pair of roaches that looked exactly like all the others, "those guys just hate everyone."

"Those guys?" Flynt asked pointing at the man-sized bugs dressed in patched elbowed tuxedos and wearing top hats. His own rainbow patched outfit of ill fitting clothes making him feel conspicuous amongst the well dressed cockroaches.

"No, the Roaches," Barrington corrected, "Do try to keep up. We'll need to exploit those conflicts to move ahead, incite some duels, feed the fires, ensure bygones are byheres instead. Rumours and the shadows of rumours will be our tools to wealthy ways."

"And the Stock Market?" Flynt asked. On their long trek through the desert after jumping out of Lord Barrington's exploding sky castle, he had laid out his detailed plan for gaining back his wealth as simply "The Stock Markets await!"

"Right through those doors," once a Lord Barrington announced pointing through the throng of cockroaches at the colosseum gates that lay before them. "Fortunes gained and lost along with lives, legs and spare antennas. Gruesome stuff. Best not to be late for our first match."

"What? Now?" Flynt asked noticing the life size poster of Mad Barrington and himself beside the gate caught with the authentic detail that one would expect from life size bugs painting humans, "That's the plan?"

"No need to worry lad," boomed Mad Barrington over the noise of the crowd, "between your mathematical prestijadouritusity and my natural capabilities we'll crush these bugs underfoot! " His solid frame moving forward with certainty he slapped Flynt's back pushing him forward and into the arena ahead of him as the crowd scuttled to their seats in anticipation of the day's contest.

Follow the continuing adventures of Mad Barrington and Flynt as they attempt to rebuild Mad Barrington’s fortunes on the Stock Market.

In “Mad Barrington's Gyre” players build a deck to drive the bleak stock market of the future up or down to their advantage. Players must balance future rewards against their immediate needs each turn as they choose between buying shares, actions that affect the value of shares (to help themselves or hurt their opponents) and cards that increase their long term fortunes.

Reviews

Really good
kc2dpt

I hate you. For a while I've been trying to make a game like this but I just couldn't figure out how to make it work. On the other hand, now I have that deckbuilder stock game I always wanted. You've got some real clever things here. Docked 1 star for the artwork though.

Post Apocalyptic Stock Sim Card Game!?
Lord Gek

While this game clearly isn't the most polished and flashy, at its heart is a pretty fun card game with BUCKETS of personality! For those card gamers hip to such things, the folk at Gimble Games have taken the basic conecept of construct your deck in game (ala Ascension, Thunderstone, and Dominion) and mixed it into a post apocalyptic stock market simulator with fancily dressed cockroaches (each with their own unique twist on the rules). This 2 player game (the physical card game made by the same folk allows up to 4 players so we can only hope more players will eventuallt be allowed) is completely free allowing you to play vs. 3 levels of AI, another real human, or even a series of bouts vs. AI players in the form of an Adventure. The catch? No ads BUT if you want access to some nifty new cards that add some cool new twists to the game in your AI or two player duels (no effect on Adventure) you can spend a couple of bucks on two separate expansions. These two $0.99 Expansions are cleverly dubbed "Evil" and "Good". The "Evil" expansion is all about adding a number of dirty tricks to play on your opponent to keep them down whereas the "Good" expansion adds a number of ways for you all to make even BIGGER profits! I personally prefer to play with both expansions enabled so as to gaurantee a completely wild ride!