Our Story

Ph.D Joris Dormans submits his research “Engineering emergence: applied theory for game design”. Ernest Adams and Joris Dormans publish “Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Mechanics”

Joris Dormans and Ernest Adams present Machinations at GDCEurope during their talk “Machinations: A New Way to Design Game Mechanics”

As a game economy designer at a successful studio in Denmark, Mihai Gheza starts using Machinations investigating how to base game design decisions on science, not opinions

While at GameAnalytics, Dana Gheza starts working on a series of in-depth cross-game data reports. Talking about the insights and industry challenges, Mihai shows Machinations to Dana. Bewildered by the potential, Mihai and Dana ask Joris about his future plans for Machinations

As a keynote speaker at Games Business, Mihai presents a Machinations diagram and witnesses the entire room being lit up by phone flashes in response

Mihai and Dana talk to Radu Craciun about how Machinations can dispel uncertainty in a hit-driven industry. Radu is fascinated and immediately sees the applicability to other industries. Inspired by the potential and audience reception, Mihai, Dana and Radu talk to Joris and team up to advance Machinations and port the Flash version into a browser-base collaborative platform

Alin Moldovan and his team of kick-ass devs are sold into the vision and join ranks

Fit4Start Accelerator grants them the first funding

Machinations.io launches in closed Beta — 700 users

Seedcamp leads a pre-seed round

Machinations in Open Beta — 2000 users

Machinations Live Collaborative Editing — 12000 users

Machinations launches it's Unity3D plugin — real-time 2-way sync between Machinations diagrams and the Unity build

GapMinder leads seed round

Machinations launches a series of Live Webinars

The Machinations Community goes live — 23000 users

HIRO Capital leads Series A round

Game Economy Health Monitoring Service

Machinations is nominated for Best Tech Provider at Develop:Star Awards, Brighton

Team-up with Prof. Edward Castronova, the inventor of the virtual economics field, to define ”The Machinations Manifesto For Building Sustainable Game Economies – The Design Pillars”

The Machinations Community reaches 60000 users