Currently, we teenagers have money from our parents for tasty food we eat, for fashion clothes we wear and especially, for extremely expensive college education we enjoy. Is there anything wrong with that? Of course not. However, imagine that you lose your house; if you are a single parent; if you are one of 14 million unemployed people; if there is only 1000 dollars in your bank account. How can you survive in this contemporary high-pressure life?
If you are concerned about above questions, welcome to SPENT, which is basically a word game. During the game, you may be asked to imagine yourself in above circumstances and answer several questions related to those tragedy situations. There will be feedback of your answer including correctness and some related knowledge or experience. That means you can learn something while playing a game. Although the game maybe blamed by baldness process and lack of imagery, I still strongly recommend that you should have a try since it’s really educational.
Choices matter. Sometimes, life is such a merciless game that only one wrong decision may destroy whole life. In SPENT, we’re supposed to make many choices, from the job-selection: to be a low-paid but more flexible waiter or a high-paid but more rigid warehouse worker, to insurance-decision: pay for expensive but effective insurance or take risk and ignore insurance fees. SPENT is a game about choice. Every single choice may incur an unexpected outcome. For example, if you choose to buy a high quality insurance that may cover more medical items, but you may suffer from $279 monthly premium subtracted from only $1200 monthly income; if you choose to purchase a low quality insurance or even don’t buy any insurance at all, maybe you can save huge money in short term, but you may suffer from potential disease uncovered, which may make you broke in an instance.
Some questions offered by SPENT are even beyond the economy things. What’s your choice between the