Game Economy Design: How to ensure player satisfaction and commitment

Learn how to build sustainable long-term engagement into your game. This Game Economy Design free webinar – part of the PocketGamer.biz MasterClass series covering essential practical game design topics and delivered by respected industry expert Oscar Clark – will give you the skills required to balance your game economy in a manner that ensures both player commitment and satisfaction as well as clarity and efficiency in terms of approach and implementation.

The webinar focuses on:

• PROGRESSION AND POWER CURVES: Find out how to use ‘system thinking’ to evolve players from their First Time User Experience to a sustainable long-term engagement without falling prey to the dangers of Power Creep
  
  
• SINKS & SOURCES: Learn how to model the ‘Sinks & Sources’ of different currencies and resources to ensure balance between progression and grind
  
  
• RESOURCES, ANCHORS & RATCHETS: Discover tools which can help make the allocation of rewards more effective and avoid overly complicating the analysis of your game economy

This webinar is the first step in a two-level programme designed to maximise your game economy design knowhow, with a follow-up interactive workshop, imaginatively entitled “Game Economy Design Interactive Workshop”, taking place on Wednesday, September 18, 4pm-6pm (UK time). This 2-hour online masterclass will dive deeper into the fundamentals and provide real-world practical expertise through a series of exercises designed to help you implement your newly acquired skills. Note that workshop spaces are deliberately kept to very low number so as to maximise the learning.

This free webinar and paid workshop are part of our ongoing knowledge-sharing MasterClass series brought to you by the team at PocketGamer.biz. Running between July and September 2024, the topics covered include ‘Game Monetisation’, ‘Player Engagement & Retention’, and ‘Game Economy Design’.