The Development of Cryptocurrency Investment Simulation Game (V-Coin)

With rising trends towards Cryptocurrency, the cryptocurrency market is filled with investment opportunities and risks. According to the recent reports, understanding cryptocurrency may be extremely important for students since it’s likely to be around for years to come, and investing in cryptocurrency could be one of the key steps on their financial literacy journey. Thus, it’s very important to help them understand the complexities of cryptocurrency market in the current financial world. This study aims to develop a role-play simulation game in which the players play as traders, for the purpose of understanding important indicators for trading cryptocurrency at low risk. This project involves three phases: design, development, and testing. The design phase includes collecting historical cryptocurrency market data and designing the gameplay, user interfaces, and graphics. In the development stage, the game was developed by using the game engine and coding in C#. The game was tested and verified by collecting data from experts and participants. The game quality is accessed by the experts. By gathering questionnaire data using a 5-point Likert scale from 24 participants, the results of this study shown that the level of overall participant satisfaction was at high level (x̅= 4.35, SD = .62) The results of this study provide a better understand how to design the game to improve learning and satisfaction, which could be applied as a tool for practicing trading skills in digital currencies at a safe environment.