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Essays on designing, simulating, and shipping live game economies, from the team building Leap.

• Leap heads to Gamescom 2026 with its first full game partnership

  Roberto Mangiafico · Aug 21, 2026 · 2 min read

  Leap will be at Gamescom 2026 in Cologne — and The Tower Must Fall, published by Caketown Interactive, becomes the first game to run its meta-game and economy on Leap end to end.

• How to simulate a game economy before launch

  Roberto Mangiafico · Apr 26, 2026 · 9 min read

  Excel, Machinations, custom code, or an integrated engine: a comparison of approaches.