Gamemaker - Inflation Game

To teach my 9-year-old brother about inflation, I created an interactive game using GameMaker, a software platform that offers a visual programming language for developing simple to complex games. This game takes place in an outdoor space, starring a dinosaur who must always collect a fixed sum of 100 coins to advance to the next level. At the end of each level, a wise dinosaur congratulates the main character and explains any changes to the value of the 100 coins collected. In the first level, 100 coins are worth 6 strawberries. In level 2, the same number of coins can buy 4 strawberries, and by level 3, just 2. The objective of this game is to illustrate in an engaging, fun way how inflation erodes a currency’s purchasing power.