Games: Arena of Valor Full Meta
About this model
This diagram represents a complex game economy and progression system, centered around various metrics such as player activities, achievements, resource accumulation, and strategic decisions impacting game outcomes. At its core, the system integrates numerous sources that generate in-game resources, including player engagement activities like playing games, account XP, rewards from friends, sign-in bonuses, and specific in-game actions categorically represented as spells or abilities (Sprint, Execute, Punish/Frostbite, etc.). These sources feed into pools that store these resources, signifying different elements of the game such as total games played, XP points, account levels, and various game-specific currencies and items (e.g., Gold, Gems, Vouchers, Arcana Fragments, etc.).
The diagram's design illustrates how these resources interconnect through converters, gates, and delays to simulate game dynamics, such as leveling up, unlocking new abilities or skins, and enhancing player engagement through rewards and achievements. Converters are used to transform one resource type into another, reflecting in-game mechanisms like spending gold to obtain heroes or using Arcana Fragments to unlock levels. Gates control the flow of resources based on conditions, representing decision points or chance events in the game, such as drops or bonuses activated under certain conditions. Delays introduce a time component, simulating cooldowns or waiting periods for resource accumulation or availability. Additionally, the inclusion of drains indicates points where resources are consumed or removed from the game, such as spending currencies. Registers calculate and store derived metrics, crucial for tracking progress or unlocking new game features based on player achievements. This intricate network not only simulates various aspects of resource management and progression in a gaming environment but also allows for the exploration of game balance and economic strategies to enhance player experience.
“Games: Arena of Valor Full Meta” is a diagram in the Machinations Community by Kapas Istvan.
You can open the original diagram in the Machinations app, press Play to watch how resources move through it, and change its values to see how the system responds. Machinations is a visual tool for designing, simulating and balancing game economies and other systems, where resources flow through sources, pools, drains, converters and gates. In a diagram, a source creates resources, a pool stores them, a drain removes them, a converter changes one resource into another and a gate decides where they go next.