Overview

This page highlights the work I did on an Economy Simulation Tool. The whole purpose here is a personal use alternative to Machinations. I have used Machinations regularly and found myself to hit limitations regularly. As a result, since I know Unity, I built an alternative.

The biggest accomplishments for me here simply is the overall tool. I have spent quite some time in thinking this through and am very happy with the result. I have gotten some good use cases out of it, however, it needs to be battle tested some more.

The current state of the tool can be described as a Version 0.1. The idea at the moment is to keep using it and build additional functionality where needed. All data you’ll see is simulated and comes from my attempt to recreate Voodoo’s Collect Em All economy within the tool. It is not complete yet.

At the time of creating the page, the tool is still under heavy development whenever I find some time to work on it.

Current Features:

• Create and track many currencies
  
• Simulate level attempts (Win / Loss)
• Supports Actions that occur at set points during the simulation
• Step-based simulation, allows the user to move between steps to see the numbers at any given time
• Convert / Source / Sink currencies
• Run multiple consecutive simulations, usually set to a 100 at once
• Has a graph for every created currency
• Is built based on Scriptable Objects, creating new currencies, actions, events etc is incredibly easy
• Export CSV, allowing all data to be exported into Sheets or Excel in case it needs to be saved
• (ROUGH) Support the creation of a Persona, allowing customisation of how certain actions are used
• (ROUGH) Session Simulation and Churn Prediction, taking boredom into account

Planned Features:

• Further expand on Personas, Session Simulation and Churn Prediction as these can be very powerful tools to indicate a problem in the simulated game
• Expanding the core functionality on demand, for example, support currencies that decline over time