Hideo Kojima also does this a lot in the Metal Gear Solid series, where for example you can wait for a week for an aged boss to die of old age, instead of beating him. For example, Paper’s Please makes you play the role of a customs officer, and makes you a part of family-crushing decisions by just putting a stamp over someone’s passport. Martin: I love games that break boundaries between gameplay and narrative. Review Fix: What do you play for fun when you’re not developing? It inspired the workday-based flow of the game, where you start during morning, and have an Evaluation at the end of the day when markets are closing. Paper’s Please is also a great game in that area, and has a lot of believable details with very simple graphics. It’s part of the inspiration for The Invisible Hand, as I want this game to express feelings and ideas through the in-game market’s mechanics. Martin: I really enjoyed The Stanley Parable and its ability to express a lot about games through very simple mechanics. Review Fix: What games inspired this one? Most controls are mouse-based, so they would easily translate to touchscreens. The game would definitely be great on those platforms, or on tablet. We will consider porting to other platforms after the release on PC. Martin: We are working with Unity, so porting to 3DS or Vita is technically possible, but we are focusing on PC right now. Review Fix: This game would be awesome on the 3DS or Vita. This lead to the premises of The Invisible Hand, and this is still our core idea for how the game will play. Review Fix: When did the initial idea for this game come to you?īenjamin Martin: It was a year ago, we were talking about games with friends, and I had the idea of a game about traders, where the player would be asked to meet financial goals, and to deal with the social consequences of his actions. Whether you just follow the missions given by your supervisor or go rogue and put people to their knees for your own profit, it is up to you to make money for the well-being of the company and your own. In a world where computers can do most of the analytic work, you will live the life of a trader, and try to profit off the numbers spewed by the machine to get the best of what the world has to offer. At first glance, it is only about numbers, but in the end, it is about much more.

The Invisible Hand is a game about traders, and their world. Review Fix chats with game developer Benjamin Martin who discusses his upcoming game, â€œThe Invisible Hand.â€ Taking us through the original concept and development, Martin gives us an inside look at a pretty nifty indie game.

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