For this balancing exercise,...

About this model

For this balancing exercise, you’ll need to provide a balance proposal for a small tycoon prototype where the player will build

houses to collect the 2 major progression resources: Coins and XP. We already have filled up some of the data but the bulk is

yet to be done.

DOCUMENTS NEEDED

.\Balancing\Tycoon_prototype.xlsx

ABOUT THE PROTOTYPE

This exercise’s purpose is to test the simple game loop of a tycoon game with very limited parameters. The idea is to study

how the progression balance can directly influence the player’s perception of fun and feeling of completion. For this exercise

only, the houses will all have the same size and the building area will be limited to the size of 10 houses.

Each house will yield Coins and XP at the same time by a manual player action. Coins allow to buy new houses and XP makes

the player progress and unlock new houses along the way.

INSTRUCTIONS

This tycoon prototype has to follow some rules that apply to the balance itself.

GAME RULES  Each house gives its yield once per session

 The player can build/destroy houses at the beginning of each day  Destroying a house doesn’t give back any Coins  The player’s starting gold is 2000

 Every day the player does exactly 6 sessions  Max player level is 30

BALANCING TARGETS & RESTRICTIONS  In the first session the player shouldn’t have more than 4 houses  No house should give more gold than its price over 4 yields  At the end of the first day, the player must be exactly level 3

 The whole XP progression should be at least 60 days

D. TASKS

PROPOSE A BALANCE FOR THE PLAYER PROGRESSION

Following the game rules, fill up the orange cells in the exercise file to meet the balancing targets & restriction. You are free

to reorganize the file, move things around, add charts and extra columns to achieve your goal.

Please send back your working file and any external files you might have created for this exercise in the returned test

package.

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