GAME BALANCING TOOLKIT Combat, Progression & Economy

BALANCE YOUR GAME WITHOUT BUILDING ONE GIANT SPREADSHEET

Game Balancing Toolkit is a collection of 7 focused offline tools for indie developers who need to tune combat, progression and economy systems.

Instead of forcing every balancing problem into one complicated application, each tool focuses on a specific question: How long does leveling take? Are weapons actually different? Do enemies outscale the player? Does one ability dominate? Are later waves survivable? Do RPG stats explode at high levels? Are upgrades becoming unaffordable?

Open the Toolkit Hub, choose what you are trying to fix, and launch the right tool.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

#002 — Weapon DPS & TTK Comparator

Compare weapon builds using expected DPS, magazine and reload behavior, shots to kill, HP breakpoints and estimated time-to-kill.

#003 — XP Curve & Grind Time Calculator

Design XP progression and estimate cumulative XP, actions required, grind time and pacing spikes.

#004 — Enemy Difficulty Curve Balancer

Compare player progression against enemy HP and damage scaling, fight time, survivability and relative difficulty changes.

#005 — Upgrade Economy & Pacing Balancer

Inspect upgrade costs, income growth, time-to-afford, payback, player power and progression walls.

#006 — Combat Encounter & Wave Balancer

Estimate wave pressure, cumulative damage, clear time, survival margins, difficulty jumps and optional boss encounters.

#007 — RPG Stat Growth & Power Curve Designer

Design HP, Attack, Defense, Magic and Speed curves, then inspect power growth, spikes, caps and stat dominance.

#008 — Ability Cooldown & Resource Efficiency Balancer

Compare abilities using cooldowns, cast time, resource costs, burst, sustained output, efficiency and sustainability.

MORE THAN 7 SEPARATE CALCULATORS

The included Toolkit Hub helps you decide which tool to use and provides practical multi-tool workflows.

Recommended workflows include:

FULL RPG BALANCING PASS

XP Curve → Stat Growth → Weapons / Abilities → Enemy Difficulty → Encounters → Economy

COMBAT BALANCING

Weapons + Abilities → Enemy Difficulty → Combat Encounters

CHARACTER PROGRESSION

XP Curve → RPG Stat Growth → Upgrade Economy

ECONOMY & PACING

Upgrade Economy, optionally informed by your XP and character progression.

FIND THE TOOL FROM THE PROBLEM

Players level too slowly?

→ Use #003 XP Curve

Weapons feel too similar?

→ Use #002 Weapon DPS & TTK

One ability dominates everything else?

→ Use #008 Ability Balance

Enemy difficulty suddenly spikes?

→ Use #004 Enemy Difficulty

Players collapse during later waves?

→ Use #006 Combat Encounter

Late-game character stats explode?

→ Use #007 RPG Stat Growth

Upgrades take too long to afford?

→ Use #005 Upgrade Economy

KEEP A RECORD OF YOUR BALANCING WORK

The tools are independent by design.

Use local saves for convenient iteration, then keep important balancing passes using the available JSON, CSV and report/export functions depending on the tool.

The Toolkit Guide also explains which values are useful to carry manually from one balancing stage to another.

There is no server, account or central project database.

100% OFFLINE

Download the ZIP.

Extract the folder.

Open index.html.

Start balancing.

No installation.

No account.

No API.

No external dependencies.

No internet connection required.

DESIGNED FOR ITERATION

The Toolkit is useful for:

• RPGs

• Action RPGs

• Roguelites

• Wave and survival games

• Idle and incremental games

• Tycoon and progression systems

• Prototype combat systems

• Indie game balancing in general

Each tool includes focused inputs, calculated results, warnings and analysis designed to reveal suspicious curves and balance problems quickly.

EXPORT & SAVE

Depending on the tool, features include:

• Local browser saving

• JSON export

• CSV export

• Copyable balance reports

• Progression tables

• Graphs and visual curve analysis

• Presets and example configurations

IMPORTANT

These tools are balancing models, not game-engine combat simulations.

They are designed to help you find suspicious values, scaling problems, progression walls and balance regions worth investigating.

Final balance decisions should always be validated through implementation and real playtesting.

INCLUDED DOCUMENTATION

The download includes a central Toolkit Guide covering:

• Recommended workflows

• Which tool to use for each problem

• Manual handoffs between tools

• Saving and exporting your work

• Model limitations

• Offline usage

LICENSE

Use the Toolkit for personal and commercial game-development projects.

You may use the calculations, reports, exports and balancing values produced by the Toolkit in your projects.

Redistribution or resale of the Toolkit, its included tools or source files is not permitted.

See LICENSE.txt for the complete license terms.

AI DISCLOSURE

Generative AI was used to assist with code drafting, documentation, store-page text and promotional artwork.

The product was manually directed, reviewed, tested and packaged.