I built a game to help me practice fundamentals like DCF, merger models and LBOs. Roast it?
Hi folks,
I’m a student at a target school going through recruiting, and I got really tired of flashcards, so I built a corproate sim war room game to practice the fundamentals instead calledDesk Wars 2: Money Games (iOS).
You play through a banking career, and the work is the actual technical material:
- Merger models, DCFs and bond pricing
- Credit memos, trading and wealth management
- Interview questions in the usual technical format, each with a worked answer
- 206 finance concepts in total
- A Superday at the end that finishes with a paper LBO
It’s pixel art and meant to be fun, but the finance is meant to be right. I’d really appreciate feedback from people who know this stuff:
- Are any questions wrong, too easy, or not how they’d actually get asked?
- What topics are missing?
- Would this actually help you prep?
This is so cool.
Thank you for your kind words!
Overkill for recruiting prep imo. Note that your game would mostly attract people with intrinsic interest in finance. For them, traditional ways of prep are 80% as interesting, 90% as fruitful at 50% of the effort
Also, hope you found a startup one day
Thank you for your comment. And I agree it does feel like overkill.
I am actually preparing some startups- hoping to fund them through my games!
Cool idea. Make the paper LBO timed and calculator-free, since that's the real test. Also add the follow-up curveballs most guides skip, e.g. the $10 depreciation walk-through, then "what if it's not tax deductible?" Spaced repetition on missed questions would make it way stickier than flashcards.
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