Everything around us is a game of chance. What are the odds that a casual idea will one day be a household name? Centiki is a game of stock simulation that takes an idea from its inception to a real-life IPO. The value of a virtual company increases with the efforts of the members to validate it. The game has five levels. To advance to the next level, the player must solve a puzzle or pay a fee.
The game closely follows the clues found in the book Centiki. During the French Revolution, the librarians at the National Library created a self-governing intelligence agency to defend France against the enemy. In the 1800s, the librarians organized the spying operation as a stock exchange. It was called the Cent iki Exchange. Agent-owned stores traded all information like any other commodity. During the Roaring Twenties, the exchange began actively trading on all global stock markets, utilizing the information their spies had gathered. They formed and registered numerous corporate entities under their members’ names. These corporations became public and sold their stock on the open market after a few years of proven profitability.
Centiki is the computer program the board uses to control the world’s financial markets from its underground headquarters. The exchange uses ki as its digital currency. The librarians conspire to spend their ill-gotten gains to save the planet from desertification. They plan to cover the Sahara Desert with a solar mirror to lower the global temperature by five degrees Celsius. Climate change is not their only concern. The librarians argue that as long as we have war, disease, poverty, and extremism, the world will not be cool, even at temperatures below freezing.
When you work for a prestigious library, reading is a job requirement. Download and read the text. Buy options. Participate in forums. Your newfound riches are only worth what you believe, as well as what you helped them become.