Machinations Documentation
  • What is Machinations?
  • ☉Getting Started
    • Explore
    • Interface
    • Framework Basics
    • How-To Videos
  • ▷ Simulations
    • Run Modes
    • Charts
  • ⦽ Basic Nodes
    • Pools
    • Sources
    • Drains
  • ⇢ Connections
    • Resource Connections
    • State Connections
      • Label Modifiers
      • Node Modifiers
      • Triggers
      • Activators
    • Labels
  • ⧰ Advanced Nodes
  • Converters & Traders
  • Gates
    • Sorting Gates
    • Trigger Gates
    • Mixed Gates
  • Registers
    • Math.js Functions
  • Delays & Queues
  • End Conditions
  • Artificial Player
  • ✑ Nodes Properties
    • Activation Modes
    • Pulling & Pushing Resources
    • Filter (Colour Coding)
  • ⚯ Collaboration
    • Live Collaborative Editing
    • Public Diagrams
    • Google Sheets
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  • ♔ Accounts
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    • Pricing
    • Billing Policy
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  • ☆ Tips
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  • ⚙️Unity Plugin (UP) & API
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    • Quick Start
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    • Unity Integration Guide
    • Known Issues
    • Key Features
      • Game-Aware Analytics
      • Local Cache
      • Game State Awareness
      • Data Formats & Handoff
  • ≏ Evolution
    • Changelog
    • Framework Diff Log
  • 〄 Localisations
  • 🇷🇺 RU by Lev "evlko" Kobelev
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  • Header Bar
  • File Management
  • Main Menu
  • File > Open
  • Nodes and Libraries
  • Libraries
  • Public
  • Private
  • Properties Panel
  • Diagram
  • Run Bar and Chart
  • Types of Runs (simulations)
  • Execution Chart
  • View Controller
  • Layers
  • Outliner
  • Fit to screen
  • Zoom
  1. ☉Getting Started

Interface

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Your Machinations Workspace is where you’ll create your game designs, set parameters, run simulations, and plot results.

Header Bar

From the header you can easily access some of our most important features:

File Management

Clicking on the diagram's Titlereveals the file management setting.

Main Menu

In the Menu you will find everything you could expect from a Docs suite.

File > Open

  1. My Machinations - where we store your diagram that are not shared with your team members

  2. Shared with me - a folder for the diagrams to which you've been invited to edit

  3. Templates - where you can find the templates we make public

This should be interesting for both beginner and advanced users. Quickly access a ready-built diagram and investigate see how it works.

Nodes and Libraries

Access all Nodes and Connections to drag and drop them onto the canvas.

Libraries

Public

Access a searchable repository of ready-made subsystems. Drag and drop them onto the canvas to get you started.

Private

Add systems for easy drag and drop access. Select the Nodes and Connections you’d like added right-click and select Add to private library (see below).

Properties Panel

Diagram

Run Bar and Chart

Types of Runs (simulations)

When Run mode is set on "animated", you can run your diagram in 2 modes:

Switch to "quick run", and 2 other options become available:

Execution Chart

View Controller

Layers

Use Layers for different sections of your diagram, so you can hide them if you need better visualisation at a micro or macro level.

  1. Open Layers controller by clicking the Layers icon (image above)

  2. Make a selection of Nodes and Connections

Outliner

Use this as a minimap, by draging the ouline to navigate the diagram.

Fit to screen

Zoom

Click on the Manage file button Share; Make a copy or Delete your diagram.

Team Machinations - is the , available with our paid plans

It’s a nice way of getting over the empty canvas block every one of us may experience.

Templates cam also be accessible from File > New from Template

Pro-tip: Double click Nodes to automatically place & connect them.

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When no component is selected on the diagram, the panel displays the options for changing diagram properties:

When components (Nodes & Connections) are selected, this panel displays the properties settings for that component.

Once you have a system diagrammed, in the bottom panel you can find the diagram's

Opens the of your diagram.

Add Layer with

Move selection to a different Layer by Selecting the target Layer from the list, and hitting

Duplicate Layer with

Delete a Layer with

View/Hide Layer

Lock/Unlock Layer

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Run Modes
Execution Chart
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Saving Prompts > Version History
Run
Step-by-Step Run
QuickRun
MultipleRun
Team Folder