Machinations.io Reviews and details

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• Game economy design resources

  There’s a book “Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design” and a tool https://machinations.io. Source: 11 months ago

• Narrative Game Design

  Is there something similar to machinations.io but for story line? For example, I might want to know if it's possible to obtain outcome X and A at the same time at the end of the game (e.g. Married to Prince Charming while at the same time orchestrating the assassination of his mother), and if possible how likely it is for the player to find it, given the ways the stat points are given out at decision points. I... Source: 11 months ago

• Anyone heard of a method for creating Tech Trees?

  I believe https://machinations.io/ is what you're looking for. It's a powerful economy simulation tool that has data visualisation to show the player's progress over time. Source: 12 months ago

• Game economy/balancing spreadsheet

  You may also want to look at Machinations.io which is a tool using flowchart-like systems to help balance games, a more specialised tool than a spreadsheet. Source: 12 months ago

• How do you balance a construction and management survival game?

  There's tools like machinations.io for quick prototyping. Source: about 1 year ago

• Question about designing for balance and pacing, when there are multiple currencies and loads of upgrades

  Https://machinations.io/ is a tool I used for a bit on my old incremental. It's basically a graphing app you use to watch how your system would play out at scale. Source: about 1 year ago

• Practising in game balance/economy

  Don't know if you heard about Machinations? It is a software that help to build game economics and systems. Source: about 1 year ago

• Interesting tool for simulating game mechanics

  Link to the tool? I'm assuming it's this? Source: about 1 year ago

• Instructional Design in the Video Game Industry

  Look into Machinations (website) as game designer. Perhaps, not instructional strictly but it's a designer's work for games. Source: about 1 year ago

• Game Economy Design - Where to start?

  Have you tried Machinations? https://machinations.io/ It's a tool but you can also check the documentation: https://machinations.io/docs/ Machinations is a concept explained in the book "Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design" by Ernest Adams and Joris Dormans. Machinations can be used for any kind of games but is heavily oriented to Game Economies. You can also check some exra info in the following... Source: about 1 year ago

• Approaches to designing with a ton of interacting systems.

  Try paper prototyping the interaction between system, or depending on the systems you can try to simulate their interaction on machinations.io. Source: about 1 year ago

• [question] Best software for small-scale economy simulations?

  I don't know if this will work for you, but based on your description my mind immediately goes to this tool: https://machinations.io/. Source: about 1 year ago

• How do you tune difficulty if you the developer are not "GUD" at gaming?

  If you want to analyze numbers in regards to power curves or game economy, you could maybe try and build a model on machinations.io just to play through several scenarios. Source: over 1 year ago

• How do you create a survival rate simulation?

  Personally I would write Python script that has rough model of combat and other stuff in functions and run that million times with stat collection to CSV or JSON file. The economic simulator you are thinking is probably this one https://machinations.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Are there any game economy management platforms out there?

  I've seen this tool come up now and then for simulating various economic systems. I haven't used it myself. https://machinations.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Game Economy Design Books?

  I really enjoyed Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design by Ernest Adams and Joris Dormans. (I wish they had picked a less generic name for the book!) The diagramming tool they use within the bok has since been improved and released as Machinations. Source: over 1 year ago

• How do you prototype your designs?

  This year actually I re-learned to appreciate machinations for digital prototyping. While you can't do everything in there, it definitely has the potential to cover a lot of systems. Source: over 1 year ago

• How do I spend more time exercising my Game Design muscles than my Programming muscles?

  Another really great tool which I really learned to love again over the past few months is machinations: https://machinations.io/, which can also be used for some loop-based prototyping. Source: over 1 year ago

• Probably a stupid question.

  That is a question that can kill the magic behind games, after all mechanics are nothing more that numbers running behind the system. To see what I mean look at https://machinations.io/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Website That Lets You Test Logic Systems Before Coding

  I believe the website you're referring to is Machinations.io. Source: over 1 year ago

• Any tips from devs for learning about game balance?

  An okay interactive visualization tool for small systems is https://machinations.io/ I am not affiliated/sponsored etc. I just use this occasionally and it's learning curve for effective use is something... Source: over 1 year ago