My game has a button labelled "Cook the books". It has a cash cost and a cooldown, like any other ability.

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Every trade in Pongzi Scheme raises suspicion. Push too hard and the fund gets shut down. A few seconds inside the trading floor of Pongzi Scheme. The more you push, the more suspicion builds.

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Monday motivation, courtesy of the CEO in my game:

"Trust the process. Returns are guaranteed by verbal contract."

He is running a Ponzi scheme. The whole game is about keeping it alive as long as you can.

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A quick look at Pongzi Scheme: 10 seconds, your coins are the balls, and a candlestick is your paddle. The yellow bar shows how much time you’ve got left. Try to keep it together before everything goes red. There’s a demo on indieoffshore.itch.io/pongzi-scheme.
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"You made it: paper became sand and your name became someone else's."

How every run of Pongzi Scheme ends.

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11 weeks ago this was just an empty Godot project. Now it's a playable Ponzi scheme with a candle.

Been playtesting a lot lately, fixing all the dumb little stuff that keeps coming up.

Trying to get it on Steam by Nov 10.

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Every trading day in Pongzi Scheme opens with a choice: two market conditions, each a bribe with a catch. Volatility pays 45% more per hit, if you can keep up. #PongziScheme #ScreenshotSaturday #indiegame

Most first runs of Pongzi Scheme end the same way: agents show up at the door, the accounts get frozen, and somehow it all falls apart around day 13.

The money you moved offshore? Still yours.

So naturally, you build a bigger one.

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8 seconds left. Suspicion is at 80%. There’s way too much cash on the table.

I can throw money at the books and buy some extra time… or just liquidate everything and take the prestige points.

Act 2 of Pongzi Scheme is getting stressful.

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Every symbol goes red at once. That's the tell.

From there it's withdrawals, frozen doors, and a queue you can see from the window.

Cash out early and you keep something. Cash out late and you're just the one holding it.
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Your fund can be too small. Turns out it can be too BIG, too.

Sit on a pile of cash and the regulator opens a file. 25 seconds to get back under.

Move it offshore at a terrible rate, or call the lawyers and buy time.

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