High Action and Mobile Shooters – How to achieve fun moment-to-moment gameplay
In this webinar, Alex Clarks, walks us through how Machinations can be used to visualize the moment-to-moment gameplay while building a mobile shooter system, live
Playbooks, deep dives & field notes
Writing from the Machinations team on economies, tokenomics, systems thinking and the craft of modeling before you build.
Affordances in game systems design
Game system design and the concept of affordances. How they work, what makes them powerful, and examples of how to use them effectively.
4X and Abstraction in Game Design – How to achieve the “one more turn” effect
In this webinar we will walking you through how Machinations can be used to support abstract thinking in a 4x game
The Metaverse. How will it change the practice of game design?
What the Metaverse is and isn't, and how it will reshape the games industry and the practice of game design.
Game systems: Feedback loops and how they help craft player experiences
Simplistically, feedback loops take an output and introduce it as an input. How do game designers use feedback loops in games and why?
What are game simulations and why should you care?
Releasing a poorly balanced game is an excellent way to lose your player base in quick order. Here's how to avoid that.
How to design idle games
A breakdown of what an idle game is and the building blocks of its game design. Plus a video on how to balance an idle game in Machinations.
9 game design tools
A list of tools that can aid game studios in their everyday work of doing game design, balancing game economies, and simulating their games.
Game balancing with Quick Plays just got 80x faster
Machinations product update: simulate your game design up to 80x times faster and balance your game easier.
Modeling Player Behavior with Machinations
In this video we’re looking at how Machinations can be used to test progression systems for different player profiles and play styles.
Game systems: Battle passes and how to balance them
Learn how battle passes affect progression and game economies, and which rewards, prices and player paths to examine when balancing them.
What is game economy inflation? How to foresee & overcome it in your game design
Understand how inflation develops in game economies and explore ways to model currency sources, sinks and player behavior.
Creating an interactive endless runner
Izel Levi, student at BAU Game Design Undergrad Program, recounts his experience of using Machinations to balance an endless runner.
Game systems: An in-depth look at gacha boxes
In this article, we’ll be looking at what gacha boxes are and how to design, balance and implement them into your game.
What deconstructing Supergiant’s Hades taught me
An article about what the simulation data we got out of a deconstruction model for Supergiant Games' Hades can mean for gamers.
Game economy design in Free-to-Play games
Making an effective free to play game isn’t as simple as throwing IAPs into a battle-royale title. Why is game economy design important?
Game systems: How to create and balance a gacha in Machinations
As a game economy designer, I felt my team and I were always in a tug of war with deadlines and producing enough content.
Fireside Chat, Episode 1 w/ Joris Dormans
Read the published digest of Mihai Gheza and Joris Dormans discussing game design, Machinations and the industry.
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.