Craft perfectly balanced games
Simulate game systems, before writing a single line of code
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Used by 2500+ game studios all over the world
Craft flawless game design
Map your game design in an interactive diagram, using a visual, Turing-complete language composed of 9 atomic Nodes and 2 types of Connections.
LEARN MORELay out systems
Get your exact vision across with a standardised, visual language
Communicate complexity
Define abstract concepts and get the entire team on the same page
Leverage experience
Start with hundreds of ready-made deconstructions and prefabs
Calibrate player experience
Hit Run and watch any system come to life, interactively. Click-to-edit parameters and run Monte Carlo simulations until you find the perfect balance.
LEARN MOREReduce guesswork
Back up gut feeling with science and iron out any kinks
Predict player progression
Simulate emergence and balance player journeys
Spot flaws
Isolate and solve roadblocks in player journeys
All on 1 diagram
Empower your team with a single point of truth for game design and reduce time spent chasing outdated, static GDDs and sheets.
LEARN MOREAlign visions
Input/output with developers, analysts, producers
Update instantly
No, really. Our API pushes values real-time over-the-air
Design collaboratively
Share and edit real-time co-op like it's the 21st century
Play Pac-Man
Take it for a spin and watch the meta unfold. Or add it to your account and hack it.
Spreadsheets reimagined
Combine machine and human analysis through visualization
Complexity mastered
Simulate emergence and forecast the butterfly effect
Balancing solved
Your game is a unit, treat it holistically
Don’t take our word for it
Just wanted to let you know that I got around to plot my first Machinations graph! :D Dove right into it and skipped all tutorials... as you do, took me a while to understand logic and resource lines [...] I looked at some of the [library] examples and it took me about an hour to achieve my goal [...]
Olle Lundahl
COO
Presenting a feature becomes interesting. I was doing Machinations and René looked over my shoulder: “You should stop playing games :)”. If it’s a spreadsheet, nobody cares, Machinations grabs everyone's attention.
Laurids Binderup
Lead Game Developer
Machinations is a place for all the real-life data points to land and verify our assumptions and/or change the model.
Maja From Andersen
Data Analyst
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Some of the best game designers, developers and academia all over the World use Machinations in their day to day work
Emil Kjaehr
Product Manager & Partner
Aarhus, Denmark
Kyle Bardiau
Game Designer
Orange County, California
Julia K
Lead Game Designer
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Andreas Pizsa
Studio Technical Director
Hamburg, Germany
Atilla Kabakcıoğlu
Game Designer
Istanbul, Turkey
Daniel Jones
CEO & Co-Founder
London, United Kingdom
Johanna (Jacob) Janiszewski
Founder & CEO
Berlin, Germany
Andreas Diktyopoulos
Lead Developer & Creative Director
Athens, Greece
Todd English
Co-Founder & COO
Karlsruhe, Germany
Mayu Polo Wieja
Monetization Director
Hilversum, Netherlands
Jamie Smith
Lead Game Designer
Sheffield, United Kingdom
Ole Goethe
Associate Professor
Oslo, Norway
Michael Prokofyev
Unity Developer
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Patrick Davis
Technical Game Designer
Tokyo, Japan
Alan Jack
Game Design Lecturer
Breda, Netherlands
Jeffrey Feenstra
LiveOps Producer
Vancouver, Canada
Mariusz Lesniewski
Creative Director
Warsaw, Poland
Himanshu Agarwal
Game Designer
Pune, India
Samüel Buraud
Game Economy Designer
Barcelona, Spain
Jordan M. Blackman
Design & Monetization Consultant
San Francisco, California
Evangelos Leivaditis
Lead Game Designer
London, United Kingdom
Thais Weiller
Game Designer & Producer
Curitiba, Brazil
Jakub Remiar
Head of Game Design
Bratislava, Slovakia
Elad Drory
Senior Game Designer
Stockholm, Sweden
Isaac Boldarini
Game Designer
Mellieha, Malta
Hugues Pedreno
Formateur Level Design
Montpellier, France
Kuba Pałyska
Head of Design
Warsaw, Poland
Brandon Ramirez
Co-founder & Research Lead
Oakland, California
Anders Howard
Systems Designer
Cary, North Carolina
Ionut-Gabriel Solomon
Creative Director
Bucharest, Romania
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Been trying out @machinationsio for some basic economy balancing and omg... how have I never used this before?
— Rosa Carbó-Mascarell 🍊 (@moreelen) May 26, 2021
Begone fiddly spreadsheets. You've served me well all these years but it's time for me to move on. pic.twitter.com/QIfbqFkUhe
This #gamedesign tool called Machinations is breathtaking 🤩 You can use it for modelling game systems and balancing.
— Tastygraph the Viking (@TastygraphTV) July 5, 2019
If you knew about this and didnt share it with me, i shall not forgive you in the forseeable future! 🧐 But seriously, WOW! 🤓https://t.co/k2tS1wAu4R pic.twitter.com/iEDNVRt8aD
using @machinationsio I recreated a system we have in the sims mobile. still a wip but the basics are there pic.twitter.com/s9ORDmBcG9
— Jack Sinclair (@jacklsinclair) October 21, 2019
Was just reviewing probability and stumbled on an amazing tool when reading about Monte Carlo Simulations.
— Branden Faulls (@omphe) April 27, 2020
Machinations models in-game mechanics for balancing and shaping.
Super-frikkin awesome:https://t.co/W6MdHA4Wef
Very glad to see this project taking off! I hadn't been following lately, but I'm glad this didn't permanently go The Way of the Flash™. https://t.co/Oend7R9pl9
— Kev ÷ Kev (@codingthat) March 4, 2020
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— Fox (@BurningBlueFox) July 10, 2019
Apparently the days of balancing game logic on the excel sheet are over, finally a graph based approach.
every person building DAOs/crypto protocols/mechanisms should read 5th Discipline and use @machinationsio rn
— JZ is hiring! (@jzlegion) June 19, 2021
big alpha leak few
h/t @Peroxide10 @mlegls
Check out https://t.co/yFRNUgVPS4 -- one of the rarest of breeds. A tool dedicate to game designers! Additionally it's currently in a completely free beta.https://t.co/faS7QdjrFv#gamedev #indiedev pic.twitter.com/WBrRvfGETG
— Game From Scratch (@gamefromscratch) July 20, 2019
いやこのサイトすごいわ。本で書いてあったメカニズム全部動かせる
— あっぴん[ジェボーダン] (@noisyhead_ACVD) January 26, 2019
そして面白い。簡単なクラフトゲーのシミュレートとか簡単にできる
動画で投稿できないか後で調べようhttps://t.co/rZLbnLYjmy
Mention to https://t.co/bYnXaTBT4C, a Turing-complete visual language for mechanism design. Looks awesome! pic.twitter.com/8ja6UGLX2x
— Santiago Palladino (@smpalladino) August 21, 2019
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Machinations was originally created by PhD Joris Dormans (co-founder) at the University of Amsterdam.
His thesis “Engineering emergence: applied theory for game design” (2012) is the cornerstone of the Machinations language and framework.
Together with Ernest Adams, Joris co-authored “Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design” and we strongly recommend you get a copy.
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Some of the best game designers, developers and academia all over the World use Machinations in their day to day work
Used by 2500+ game studios all over the world
350+ universities & academic institutions use Machinations
