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0HTMLAudience · generalComplexity · 1/5LicenseSetup · easy

TL;DR

A browser-based HTML5 game that teaches financial literacy by having players make budgeting and spending decisions through interactive rounds and random events.

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  root((Pocket Money Hero))
    What it does
      Teaches budgeting
      Interactive spending choices
      Tracks progress dashboard
    Tech stack
      HTML5
      JavaScript
    Use cases
      Classroom finance lessons
      Hackathon demos
      Adjustable difficulty
    Audience
      Students
      Teachers
      Hackathon organizers

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Why would anyone build with this?

REASON 1

Teach students basic budgeting and money management through an interactive browser game.

REASON 2

Run the game as a hands-on demo at a classroom session or hackathon.

REASON 3

Adjust the starting budget, savings goal, and difficulty to fit a specific lesson or audience.

REASON 4

Host the game on a simple web server or open it locally to try it without installing anything.

What's in the stack?

HTML5JavaScript

How it stacks up

noah-brooks/pocket-money-hero-browser-game100/rutgers-pbl-dining-2015a15n/a15n_old
Stars0
LanguageHTMLHTMLHTML
Last pushed2015-12-012016-06-18
MaintenanceDormantDormant
Setup difficultyeasyeasyeasy
Complexity1/51/51/5
Audiencegeneralgeneralgeneral

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you spin it up?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

Just open the main HTML file in a browser or host the folder, keeping the asset and script folder structure intact.

If you distribute a modified version, you must release your changes under the same GPL license and make the source available.

Wtf does this do

Pocket Money Hero is a browser based learning game built with HTML5 and JavaScript that teaches financial literacy to students. Instead of reading about budgeting in a textbook, players work through everyday spending decisions and watch how their choices play out over time. The game combines short interactive rounds with random life events, meaning unexpected situations that shift how the round unfolds, and a dashboard that shows progress so players can track how their decisions affected their outcome. It focuses specifically on things like tracking a budget, setting a savings goal, and making spending choices under some pressure, with a reward system tied to progress. The game is meant for classroom style learning and for demo style events like hackathons, and its layout adjusts to fit different screen sizes, including phones. To run it, you download or clone the project files and open the main HTML file in a web browser, or host the folder on a simple web server. Keeping the folder structure intact matters, since the game relies on separate script and asset files sitting in the right place relative to the main HTML file. A handful of settings, such as the player's starting budget, the savings goal target, how often random events appear, and a difficulty mode, are defined inside the JavaScript file, or in some cases exposed through on screen controls. Changing them without editing code depends on which controls the specific build includes. The README notes that behavior can vary slightly depending on the browser, screen size, and how the files are hosted, and it does not go into detail about where saved progress is stored, saying only that this depends on the implementation. Pocket Money Hero is released under the GNU General Public License version 3, a copyleft license, meaning that if you distribute a modified version of the game, you are required to release your changes under the same license and make the source code available.

Yoink these prompts

Prompt 1
Help me host Pocket Money Hero on a simple local web server while keeping its folder structure intact.
Prompt 2
Show me where to change the starting budget and savings goal values in the JavaScript configuration.
Prompt 3
Explain what GPL-3.0 requires if I want to modify and redistribute Pocket Money Hero.
Prompt 4
Walk me through the folder structure I need to preserve when moving this game's files to a new host.

Frequently asked questions

wtf is pocket-money-hero-browser-game?

A browser-based HTML5 game that teaches financial literacy by having players make budgeting and spending decisions through interactive rounds and random events.

What language is pocket-money-hero-browser-game written in?

Mainly HTML. The stack also includes HTML5, JavaScript.

What license does pocket-money-hero-browser-game use?

If you distribute a modified version, you must release your changes under the same GPL license and make the source available.

How hard is pocket-money-hero-browser-game to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is pocket-money-hero-browser-game for?

Mainly general.

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