Pattern

Boosting engine

You might say: positive feedback, engine building

Part of a resource is invested to increase the future flow of the same resource.

Ask

What is the payback time of one investment?

Sources

1. Ernest Adams / Joris Dormans, The Designer's Notebook: Machinations, a new way to design game mechanics, A Couple of ExamplesThis is the classic upgrade process for everything from Monopoly to StarCraft: investing in production facilities consumes stored resources but increases production of new ones.

Use it on your project

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Paste it into a coding agent that has the teardown skills.

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