After a months-long break from working on the Monopoly simulator, I am returning to this project with the intention of programming on a more regular basis. To help speed things along, I will be updating this blog with shorter, more frequent posts.

The latest series of commits to the code repository accomplished four improvements:

1. Code development using Jupyter Notebook as opposed to .py script file format
2. Minimum game mechanics to enable a game of players that buy and rent ad infinitum
3. A global VERBOSE argument that declares explicitly what happens in the game
4. A visualization of players’ cash that updates dynamically at the end of every turn

Interestingly, a quick simulation of this minimum game shows that players never run out of cash as buyers and renters who cannot buy houses and hotels.

My next goal is to build methods that allow players to buy houses and hotels to confirm that it is only when this game feature is enabled that players can go bankrupt.