Healthcare Capitalist

Healthcare Capitalist pulls historical mortality data from the CDC WONDER database to generate real-time, recursive forecasts of annual U.S. deaths from major physical and mental health issues. The projections are dynamically visualized on the right side of the screen, allowing players to watch trends evolve over time. Meanwhile, players can click the Donate button to generate funds, which can then be spent on upgrades. Each upgrade has different effects — some increase donation output, while others actively reduce the number of predicted deaths in the models, allowing players to combat the forecasted rise in mortality.

Developed for HackDavis 2025 over the course of 24 hours.

NOTE:

The current build of the game does not handle API requests, so currently you will only be able to see what the game looks like. Please check out our demo video to see what the game should look like. We hope to get a build working soon!

Team:

Ty Matson - Gameplay Programming & Design

Andy Yang - Backend (ARIMA Modeling, API Setup & Handling), Data Cleaning & EDA