Lesson Night: Using Simple Spreadsheet Techniques to Help Balance Your Game

Jamey Stevenson has done a fair amount of economy design and balancing using spreadsheet tools like Excel. In this microtalk, he provides a whirlwind tour of the techniques he uses to keep a game economy organized and ensure that it is easy to maintain and update.
Slides and other files for the lesson can be found at www.techvalleyg...

[@SuperFetaCheese]

Can't believe someone made exactly the video I needed, and google sent me right to it.
The internet is truly incredible.

[@jamesk7006]

Best believe it

[@thusodamane7311]

Very insightful, thanks for sharing!!

[@marlisfleischmann6633]

Thank you! Great resource :)

[@Kakerate2]

ignore the intro, go to 14:00

[@717pixels9]

I don't know why but I always used the same color sceme to make balance for my games (green for the values that are entered, blanc for calculated, yellow). I quess it is the natural choise but still, awesome.

[@TheCrushiii]

Hello, the link in the description is broken. Is there a way to get the spreadsheet somehow ? :)

[@missy1056]

Hi Jamey,
What does game economy mean? What does economy design comprise of? Any links or references to the start from basics?