Banksters is an EduTech simulator with NFT capability, and it looks to offer an immersive experience that gamifies common elements of our everyday lives. Banksters expands on this niche genre by successfully ‘gamifying’ trading, making it more digestible to different audiences and traditional gamers.
Mine in-game currency as much as you want.
Upgrade your mining equipment to earn more.
Use your earnings to compete with other Banksters.
The player holds all the power and has to adapt to the market condition of the token using a variety of in-game abilities – likened to events and actions that have taken place in real life. By employing smart strategic decisions, you end up learning more about financial concepts, gain better financial literacy, and ultimately become more trading savvy – useful in and out of the game.
There are three main gameplay elements in Banksters. Mining, which allows you to dig for in-game tokens with default mining equipment.
Then there are the Investment Runs, which are simulated trading experiences using real-life data – the amount of entries you can have is proportional to the prize pool (in real crypto). Players can use abilities during the invest runs too. For example – the ability titled ‘Elon’s Tweet’ was designed to emulate a real-world scenario where Elon Musk tweets about a coin to pump or dump for a short time, maximizing players’ results.