About 6 months ago, I made a game for the Drupal community. I announced it in the local Colorado Drupal community and some other random people have somehow found out about it, but it's still pretty small, and I should have extended an invitation to the wider community long ago. Better late then never.
Drupal Webstocks is a virtual stock market game where anyone can invest fake money in Drupal projects, with prices based on the number of sites using each project. When projects get more users, the stock price goes up. When people stop using a project, the stock price goes down. The usage numbers come from Drupal.org, which updates weekly based on actual sites checking in for updates. So the challenge of Drupal Webstocks is to predict which projects people will be using in the future of Drupal. Unlike real stock markets, insider trading is encouraged, so if you think your own project is going to be the next big thing in Drupal, go ahead and buy it. If your project is already widely used, you may not be able to afford it until you earn more money. So far, no one has bought a share of Drupal core.
In addition to projects as stocks, Drupal Webstocks just added another way to get rich with fake money: the Drupal 8 Release Date Lottery. If you ask 10 people in the Drupal community when they think Drupal 8 will be released, you'll get 10 responses of "when it's done," followed by 12 different guesses as to when that might be. The idea of the Drupal 8 Release Date Lottery is to put some fake money on those guesses, with the correct entries winning all the money, just like a real lottery. Right now the prize is small, but as more people enter guesses the prize will go up. There's also a live graph of the most-guessed dates, so we can all see the collective wisdom of the Drupal community around when Drupal 8 will be released.
Drupal Webstocks gives you 250 cash to start, which is far from enough to buy shares of Drupal core or Views, but should be plenty to buy shares of newer projects or a Drupal 8 Release Date Lottery ticket. Happy investing!