My new Figma plugin, Economy Flow Builder, is now publicly available on the Figma plugin store. This makes it easy to convert and order game economy flows via JSON, automatically converting them into charts. Finally, reproducibility and jumpstarting of economic flow diagrams.
The kicker is that it also syncs back to JSON. If you make changes, such as deleting some boxes, creating new ones, or reorganizing flows, you can sync them back to JSON with a single button click. Tons of nice features in the JSON too. For instance, the ability to create subsections. So if you’re creating a giant economy flow diagram and there’s a particular feature that has a sub-economy, it makes it easy to visually designate this without adding a ton of visual clutter.
I created some dummy examples for presets, but since the plug-in is open-source, I would highly encourage people to contribute back to the community and upload JSON file formats so they can serve as presets for game economies they’ve worked on or are passionate about. But oh boy, wouldn’t it be nice if you could use something like Gemini’s Deep Research to break down a game economy into this JSON format, and automatically pipeline it into the plugin?
Damn, I hope someone works on that next.
I also created an R package for accessing the Fortnite API, but currently, there is no way to retrieve the top islands. If you know what specific island you want to look at, you can get great metrics in one line of code. However, I’m still waiting for Epic to update this one to add a bit more substance! Nonetheless, it’s remarkable that Epic released a public API that includes KPIs likr as retention, unique players, and peak CCU. A huge step forward.
