Internal resource allocation

Activities theme

Player can or must manage resource (energy, fuel, oxygen, etc.) allocation within a single system, such as a vehicle.

18
games
7
platforms

Alternate names: Energy allocation, Power management
Name variations: resource distribution

Most commonly seen in sci-fi space flight games where the player manages energy distribution between various spacecraft systems (usually propulsion, shields and weapons). Also commonly any excess energy to a system is essentially "lost" which gives more reason to actually micromanage it, though since the energy equally commonly limitless there's no real hurry in doing this.
See also: logistics, energy distribution (on larger scale)

Related: attack/defense adjust

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Games by year

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The first Internal resource allocation video game was released on November 1982.

Subset Games and Epic Megagames published most of these games.

Platforms

Windows 7
MS-DOS 4
Linux 3
Mac OS Classic 1
Mac OS X 1
iOS 1
TRS-80 1