Dow Jones Beer Broker Game - Software for stock market theme bars

"There is always a bit of a broking atmosphere in the air - at least while drinking. How much money you'd have to invest for it depends entirely on the demand. There is a constant change in the price for individual drinks, which are notated on tv screens. No matter if a drink is of alcoholic nature or not, all drinks take part in the broking game.
Everything starts with a minimum notation, while there is practically no upper price limit. You'd have to be quick ordering drinks because every two minutes the prices for the drinks are updated. And of course, drinks have to be paid immediately. All of a sudden flashing signals on the ceiling indicate that prices have crashed. A crash at the beer exchange. Confusion and disorder begins as people try to order cheap drinks now. The bar is crowded and people are becoming quiet hectic. (...) Quazar developed the high sensitive electronics with the idea to sell drinks like shares in a stock market. Having this idea in mind the owner of the pubs started searching for software developers, who could make this idea work. After many fruitless enquiries at leading software companies, the owners found the Quazar Software GmbH. Established in 1988 the Quazar Software GmbH is known to be the secret tip in the scene. If for other software developers a task appears to be not executeable, the work for Quazar just starts. Quazar will solve the most difficult software tasks you. The constant change of the prices for drinks while inputting the order and also the integration of high sensitive electronics in the wet bar area is an example of Quazar work."
(WOHIN in Hamburg [Where to Go in Hamburg])

Meanwhile Quazar had already solved this problem six times (in Hamburg, Berlin and Zurich). The high sensitive electronic gear, such as touch screens, video walls and portable input devices for the bar staff is supplied by DEKOM GmbH, Hamburg.

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Here you will see a system diagram.

The Rules of the Beer Broker Game

As in every ordinary exchange, the demand regulates the price of the traded goods. All prices are displayed on tv screens and video walls. Subject of speculation are drinks, which are divided into competitive groups. If a certain drink out of such a group is ordered more often than other drinks in that group, prices for all other drinks in that certain group are falling. All price notations are made every two minutes and displayed on the tv and video walls. This two minute interval is the equivalent of one round of the game. There is no upper price limit, but a minimum notation for any drink the so called minimum price, applies. Exception: when there is a crash in the exchange, all prices go down and therefore drinks can be ordered for the crash price for a short period of time. After such a crash the game is restarted and all prices will be set back to the start price. However some articles such as meals etc., can have fixed prices.

Groups of articles are groups that contain one or more articles, with the same prices. The articles in these groups are not displayed separately on the screens (e.g. orange juice, pear juice are summarized under "Juices" and have the same price). In some competitive groups (e.g. beers) all single drinks in that group compete with each other and in this case each drink out of the group is an article group as well. In other competitive groups (e.g. wines) there is more than one drink in an article group. An article group can be cheap red or white wines or just the more expensive wines. All wines (article groups) then compete against each other.

On the screens that are setup in the restaurant or bar, all competitive groups have yellow bold letters. The articles that are in these competitive groups are displayed bellow, in red letters. The prices of drinks are displayed to the right, in green letters.

On the right side of the bottom of the screens a timer shows the current round of the game:

The remaining time of every round is also displayed. It starts flashing yellow 20 seconds and red 10 seconds before the end of each round.

The beer broker game consists of two software programs. One is the actual game and the other is the administration software, which is used for the organisation of the article and competitive groups. It also allows you to maintain personnel, revenue and article data.

 

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Touchscreen in the Counter

This is how it looks on a video wall. Here, the game just started and the prices haven't gone up yet.

Boom - In a crash not only the prices waddle