Sam Novak

A lot of teams hear simulation and think:

• more realism

• more complex AI

• better physics

That s usually the wrong goal.

A good simulation isn t valuable because it s realistic.
It s valuable because it creates meaningful outcomes.

Hey everyone

I m building itembase.dev a tool for game designers to structure and manage item data, progression, and economy systems more cleanly.

The idea came from a simple problem: a lot of game design workflows around items, balancing, and progression still end up spread across messy spreadsheets, docs, and ad hoc systems. That makes iteration slower and harder than it should be.

With itembase.dev I want to make it easier to: