Student team plan
Use Koin as a simulated game value for a classroom project. The exercise demonstrates player choice and interface states, not real payment processing.
Student Team guide · Idle · Direct Koin item
How a Student Team Can Add a Koin Content Unlock to a Idle Game
Build the idle game first, then add one optional content unlock that supports the existing play loop. This guide keeps the item understandable from its first preview through delivery and reload.
Create this game flow
Plan the content unlock around the game
Why it fits idle
An idle browser prototype centered on return cadence, visible progress, and low-pressure decisions.
What the item offers
A content unlock preview with a concrete description and direct Koin price.
A practical idle example
Offer moment
Place the content unlock after this loop advances: an idle browser prototype centered on return cadence, visible progress, and low-pressure decisions. Wait for a safe pause. Player progress must not depend on the offer.
Offer card
Offer-card rules: State time effects exactly; Describe the included content. Show the item, benefit, ownership or duration, balance, and full price in Koin. Keep confirm and cancel separate.
Successful result
Test preview, confirm, insufficient balance, success, mark the purchased content as owned and open its entry point, and reload. Show that change inside normal play instead of relying only on a success message.
Free path
Test a free session around an idle browser prototype centered on return cadence, visible progress, and low-pressure decisions. If play becomes incomplete, fix the game before changing the offer.
Design the content unlock in detail
Respect the return moment
Let players collect and understand offline progress before showing an item. Opening the game to an immediate modal can hide what happened during the absence and turn a routine check-in into pressure.
State time effects exactly
For a boost, show its duration, activation time, multiplier, and whether it continues while the game is closed. Permanent capacity changes should display the old and new limit side by side.
Test several return windows
Reload immediately, return after a short gap, and simulate a longer absence. The item, remaining duration, accumulated resources, and Koin balance should reconcile without duplicate grants or lost progress.
Observe several return windows instead of one click
This idle game uses an idle browser prototype centered on return cadence, visible progress, and low-pressure decisions. Review the genre through respect the return moment and state time effects exactly. For a student team, the content unlock should support that loop without becoming mandatory. Review the item through describe the included content and open a visible entry point. A student team can split the demonstration between the game loop, interface explanation, and classroom playtesting. The example offer is: A content unlock preview with a concrete description and direct Koin price. This offer emphasizes a durable, understandable extension to the core experience before expanding the catalog. Collect a known amount of offline progress before any offer appears and record generators, capacities, timers, and saved resources. Decline the item, close briefly, and confirm that ordinary accumulation continues. Try insufficient Koin without resetting the return summary. Complete a valid boost or capacity choice and state its activation time, duration, multiplier, and offline behavior. Reopen immediately, after a short simulated gap, and after a longer interval; calculate what should remain each time. Verify one deduction, one ownership or quantity state, and no duplicated offline reward. The free cadence should still feel deliberate rather than slowed to make the purchased relief seem necessary.
Frame it as a design exercise
Use Koin as simulated game value and explain that the project demonstrates interface states and player choice. Do not collect card details, account credentials, personal information, or money for a classroom prototype.
Divide the demonstration clearly
One teammate can build the game loop, another can own interface wording, and another can run the playtest. Everyone should be able to explain why the item is optional and where it appears after confirmation.
Document what the prototype omits
List native billing, identity, durable storage, security, refunds, age rules, accessibility, and platform review as future production concerns. This shows technical understanding without pretending the browser project solves them.
Present both success and failure
During the demo, cancel once, attempt the item without enough Koin, complete a valid choice, and reopen the game. Explain which results are simulated and what would require real engineering in a released product.
Explain the system during a live demonstration
Prepare a short presentation that begins with the playable core activity, then shows a voluntary item preview, decline, insufficient Koin, valid confirmation, delivery, and reopening. Each teammate should explain one design reason and one technical boundary rather than reading the interface aloud. Include a diagram or note showing which values are simulated and which production systems are absent. Ask classmates to identify any pressure language, inaccessible control, unclear ownership rule, or privacy concern. Finish by describing how identity, durable storage, security, refunds, native policy, and testing would change a real implementation, without collecting personal or payment information during the exercise.
Trace the promised content boundary
Name the exact level, chapter, quest, character, route, or mode, describe its approximate scope, and identify the visible entry point that will open after confirmation. Complete the advertised core path without it and verify that essential clues, main-story resolution, required accessibility options, and ordinary progression remain intact. Buy the unlock, start it from the map or menu, leave midway, and find it again after reopening. Confirm that ownership replaces the locked treatment and does not require another Koin deduction. Review age context, rights, moderation, localization, save compatibility, and whether the public description overstates length or replay value. Bonus content may extend a complete game; it should not reveal that the promised game was unexpectedly incomplete.
Describe the included content
Name the level, chapter, quest, character, or mode and explain its approximate scope. Players should understand what opens before they confirm.
Open a visible entry point
When the action completes, replace the locked state with an owned state and a clear way to start the content. Preserve that entry point after reload.
Keep the promised game complete
A bonus path can extend the experience, but the core ending and advertised main game should not disappear behind an unexpected purchase.
Build it in five steps
1. Finish the idle loop
Make the main activity playable before adding the content unlock. Players need context to judge whether the item is useful.
Result: A working idle foundation
2. Write one item definition
A content unlock preview with a concrete description and direct Koin price. Keep the same wording in the preview, confirmation, and delivered state.
Result: A consistent player promise
3. Generate the purchase choice
Show the exact Koin amount, Koin balance now, confirm, cancel, and what ownership means. Divide the work between the game loop, interface copy, and playtesting. Explain why the item is optional and how the game stays complete without it.
Result: An understandable decision
4. Deliver and recover
Test preview, confirm, insufficient balance, success, mark the purchased content as owned and open its entry point, and reload. Then test too little Koin, a player cancellation, repeated input, interruption, and reload.
Result: A visible, stable result
5. Test as a student team
Demonstrate confirm, cancel, not enough Koin, success, delivery, and reload. Do not collect payment details, account data, or personal information.
Result: Student team plan
Generate it in SEELE
Prompt 1
Create a browser-playable idle game prototype for a student game team. Build the core loop around return cadence, visible progress, and low-pressure decisions. Add one optional content unlock offer containing a bonus chapter card with scope, Koin price, ownership state, and launch action. Price it directly in Koin, require an explicit confirmation, show the balance effect, and mark the purchased content as owned and open its entry point. Do not add subscriptions, external payment checkout, revenue reporting, or guaranteed earnings. Include insufficient-Koin, cancel, success, and reload states.
Prompt 2
Keep the item optional. Show its clearly stated Koin cost, available Koin balance, confirm, cancel, low-balance, success, visible delivery, and reload states.
Student Team playtest checklist
- The content unlock supports the existing idle loop.
- The item benefit and ownership rule are clear prior to confirming.
- The specific Koin amount and Koin balance now appear together.
- Cancelling the action returns to play without loss or pressure.
- Success visibly delivers the confirmed content unlock.
- Demonstrate confirm, cancel, not enough Koin, success, delivery, and reload. Do not collect payment details, account data, or personal information.
Before you publish
- Avoid this design problem: hiding the promised core ending behind an unexpected purchase.
- This guide uses a direct Koin transaction for one optional game item. It does not create a subscription or recurring charge.
- The result is a browser-based playable build. Native billing, identity, durable entitlements, security, refunds, and store approval need separate implementation.
- SEELE does not provide payment analytics, tax tools, payout reports, or guaranteed revenue through this flow.
Frequently asked questions
What should this idle offer contain?
A content unlock preview with a concrete description and direct Koin price. Start with one item and one price.
Is this a subscription?
No. The player spends Koin directly on one named item or unlock.
What happens if the player cancels?
Return to the same game state without spending Koin or delivering the item.
What if the Koin balance is too low?
Explain the shortage, preserve progress, and do not deliver the item.
Does this include payment or revenue reports?
No. It covers the player-facing purchase experience, not financial reporting.
Is the prototype ready for a native store?
No. The browser prototype still needs native billing, persistence, security, refunds, and platform approval.
Build this idle purchase flow
Open the complete prompt in SEELE, adjust the item and Koin price, then generate a playable version you can test.
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