Rivac LabsEconomy Designer
A live game's economy is a machine that has to stay balanced for months or years after launch — every currency needs a believable source and a real sink, and if either side drifts, players either hoard everything and stop spending or inflation makes your rewards meaningless within a season. We model sources, sinks, and price curves against your actual player data (or, pre-launch, against comparable-title benchmarks) and build the spreadsheets or in-game tools your live-ops team needs to catch drift before it becomes a churn problem. This is the service that answers questions like why whales stopped buying, why new players feel priced out, or why a currency added six months ago quietly broke everything downstream of it. We hand over a model you can keep running the numbers on, not a one-time recommendation.
How We’d Approach This
A clear, staged plan — not a black box
- 1
Audit every currency, source, and sink in the current economy (or the design doc, pre-launch) and map where the numbers don't add up.
- 2
Model a fix or a new system in a spreadsheet and pilot it against a small player segment or a controlled test build.
- 3
Review the pilot's actual spend, retention, and inflation data with your live-ops and monetization team before a full rollout.
- 4
Ship the tuned economy with monitoring thresholds so drift gets caught automatically, not three patches later.
What You Get
Deliverables from this engagement
- A full source-and-sink map of the current economy
- A working economy model (spreadsheet or in-engine tool) your team can re-run
- Pilot test results with real spend/retention numbers
- Monitoring thresholds and alerts for future inflation drift
Six Ways We Could Architect This
Different engagement, different build — pick the shape that fits
There’s more than one way to deliver on this service. Browse a few of the ways we’d structure the work, depending on your speed, budget, and integration needs.
Ready to get started?
Tell us what you’re trying to get done and we’ll help you find the highest-leverage place to start — scoped small enough to prove itself before you commit to anything bigger.
Talk to us about Economy Designer