The Machinations Manifesto For Building Sustainable Game Economies – The Design Pillars
In this manifesto, Machinations shares its vision of healthy and long-lasting game economies, laying down the foundations for building successful games.
Playbooks, deep dives & field notes
Writing from the Machinations team on economies, tokenomics, systems thinking and the craft of modeling before you build.
How to build your game loops in Machinations
In this webinar our expert designers discuss and show you how to build the most popular gameplay loops in Machinations
Machinations Friday Giveaway
Launching Machinations Friday Giveway, enter the contest and get a chance to win a year's Free Machinations Essential Plan!
The Citadel – Machinations Game Economy Audit
Using information from the game The Citadel, we have conducted extensive simulations of its Game Economy. Here are the results of Machinations' audit.
How to Design an Automated Market Maker (AMM) in Machinations
In this session, we show you how to build a simple Automated Market Maker (AMM) in Machinations
Machinations.io Raises $3.3M in Series A Round Led By Hiro Capital
Machinations annouced the closing of a $3.3M Series A funding round, led by Hiro Capital. The company will be investing the new capital into hiring and expanding its operations
Community Spotlight – Bringing balance to the void
Meet our Community Member, Spacedog, who is sharing with us how she moved from Spreadsheets to Machinations to bring balance to her game economy design.
Community Spotlight – Spacedog’s journey into web3
In this Community Spotlight, we catch up with the makers of Void Runners a blockchain game of decision-making and strategy set in space.
How to Design a Puzzle Game: A Complete Guide
Designing a puzzle game can be a daunting task. There are so many elements that go into making a good one, from the mechanics to the systems to the difficulty curve.
Introducing The Machinations Game Economy Health Monitoring Service
Machinations is introducing a way to verify blockchain game economies based on large-scale simulations prior to launch, and to continuously monitor, predict and alert on trends based on live players and market data after launch.
Sustainable Game Economies in Web 3.0 – Heroes of Mavia
During this webinar, we’ll talk about why Machinations can serve a pivotal role at the center of web3 gaming by verifying game economies.
Game Design for Sustainable Web 3.0 Economies
In this webinar, we’re showing how Machinations can be used to model and test different Play 2 Earn game economies and how to validate their sustainability
What are hypercasual games?
We cover what hypercasual games area, and how they rose to popularity with Gen Zers. Bonus game design talk enclosed!
How User Generated Content will lead the Metaverse
In this webinar we discussed about the Metaverse, UGC and how future game designers can grow a career on their platform.
Squid Game: High-stakes Game Design
During this webinar, we’ve built each of the six games in the Squid Game series as Machinations diagrams and tested them out.
User generated content in the Metaverse
What UGC can be used for in the metaverse, why it's important, and what game designers can do to encourage user generated content creation.
The Metaverse and Web 3.0
The metaverse is a shared space, created by communities or individuals to share information. The next evolution of the internet.
What is game economy design
Game economy design handles the crafting and balancing of game systems to translate player engagement into monetization opportunities.
Turn the idea into a model you can Play
Every article here started as a diagram. Build your own version and Forecast how it behaves.