Bankster Games is an initiative led by Derek Curry and Jennifer Gradecki that creates digital and analog games illustrating aspects of financialization to people outside of finance in a way that is fun and accessible. Curry and Gradecki are artists and researchers completing their PhDs at SUNY Buffalo.
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Attack of the Zombie Banks
Mobile tower defense game
In this tower defense game, you must protect your house from ‘robosigners’,‘rocket-docket’ judges, and ‘zombie banks’ who are attempting to illegally foreclose on your home.
CDS Mess is a card game that allows players to take a first-hand look at factors that led to the 2008 economic crisis. In this game, you take on the role of an investment bank, package debt into Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO) and then sell it to unsuspecting investors. Protect yourself against losses or bet against the health of another bank using Credit Default Swaps (CDS). This game is about maximizing profits no matter what and, when necessary, getting bailed out by the government. In CDS Mess, you too can be To Big To Fail!
CDS Mess replicates how Credit Default Swaps were used by Wall Street in the housing bubble.
Designed to Fail
Casual Game
Designed To Fail is the story of a Collateralized Debt Obligation (CDO) named Abacus 2007-AC1. The assets included in Abacus were selected in part by hedge fund manager John Paulson, who did not invest in the CDO, but instead built a large short position against it. Goldman Sachs aggressively sold the CDO to its customers, and to-date, former Goldman Sachs Vice President Fabrice Tourre is the only Wall Street executive that has been held accountable to any extent when he was found liable on six counts of civil securities fraud for his role in the Abacus deal. John Paulson made roughly $1 billion from his bet against the CDO, while investors in the security lost the same amount.
In the game, you learn how standard CDOs were constructed and then help John Paulson and Fabrice Tourre select the assets for Abacus, making sure that it will collapse so that Paulson's short position will pay off.
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