Your data
Reads the spreadsheets and configs your designers already maintain.
Services Game design
Simulation and analysis for design decisions.
We build simulations of your economy and progression from your own design data, run simulated players through them and track the market around you. Your designers make the calls with the numbers in front of them.
How it runs
One balance change.
- Handled by an agent
- Faster with AI
- Your team signs off
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Design data
Your spreadsheets and configs stay the source of truth.
Your team signs off -
Model built
Sources, sinks, rewards and gates become a simulation that reads those files.
Handled by an agent -
Simulated players
Thousands of profiles with different skill and spending habits play it through.
Handled by an agent -
Problems flagged
Chokepoints, inflation and unused content show up before a playtest.
Faster with AI -
Designer decides
Your designers change the numbers and run it again.
Your team signs off
Example run
What a day of it looks like.
An illustrative log of the setup at work. Your tools, numbers and review points will differ.
- Your team
Designer changes the level 4 gate cost in the economy sheet.
- Agent
Simulation rebuilt from the configs: 6 currencies, 41 sinks.
- Agent
10,000 simulated players, 30 in-game days each.
- Agent
Chokepoint at level 4: 38% of players quit before the gate.
- With AI
Sweep: five gate costs tested between 800 and 1,200.
- Agent
At 900, quits at the gate fall to 11% with no inflation later on.
- Your team
Designer picks 900 and books a playtest to confirm it.
What we set up with you
The pieces behind it.
A simulation is only useful while it matches the game, so it reads the same data the build does.
- Economy modelCurrencies, sources, sinks and prices modelled from your config files.
- Player profilesSkill, session length and spending, calibrated against playtest or live data.
- Parameter sweepsChange a value and see its effect on progression and retention.
- Live comparisonSimulated curves checked against real telemetry after launch.
- Trend trackingCompetitor updates, chart movements and genre trends summarised on a schedule.
- Design-doc checksAgents flag where the build and the design doc disagree.
Where it fits in your studio
Your telemetry
Calibrated against playtest and live metrics when you have them.
Your designers
The simulation informs decisions. Designers make them.
Your tools
Results land in the spreadsheets and docs your team works in.
Starting out
A first pilot.
A first pilot models one system, such as the core economy or the first hours of progression.
From you
Access & a lead
Your design data, any playtest or live metrics, and a designer for weekly reviews.
From us
A working setup
A simulation your designers can run themselves, and a report on what it found.
Next step
Tell us what you're making.
A few lines is enough. We'll reply within one to two business days with a suggested starting point.