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*rated “overwhelmingly positive” based on 24,615 reviews from Steam. 26. Dec. 2018
Replay gaming history. Create best selling games. Research new technologies. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
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- Game Dev Tycoon Lite. Start your own game development company and replay the history of gaming in this business simulation game. Start your business in a garage in the 80s. Research new technologies and create best selling games. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans. In this lite version you can play the first three years of.
Game Dev Tycoon
Game Dev Tycoon is a business simulation game where you replay the history of the gaming industry by starting your own video game development company in the 80s. Create best selling games. Research new technologies and invent new game types. Become the leader of the market and gain worldwide fans.
Start out in the 80s
Start your adventure in a small garage office in the 80s. Enjoy the hand-crafted level design while you develop your first simple games. Gain experience, unlock new options and create your first game engine.
Create games your way
In Game Dev Tycoon the decisions you make during development really matter. Decide which areas you want to focus on. Does your game need more gameplay or should you focus more on quests? These decisions will have a major impact on the success of your game.
Expand your company
Once you have successfully released a few games you can move into your own office and forge a world-class development team. Hire staff, train them and unlock new options.
Make larger, more complex games
With experience and a good team, you can release larger, more complex games. Larger games bring new challenges and you will have to manage your team well to deliver hit games.
Unlock labs and conduct industry-changing projects
Move beyond just releasing games and conduct industry-changing projects by unlocking labs later in the game. There are a number of secret projects that can be completed.
The full game has many more features which are not listed here to prevent spoilers.
Gameplay over revenue
We love simulation games and we also strongly believe that games need to be more than dressed up slot machines. That’s why we are proud to say that Game Dev Tycoon was designed as a fun game and not as a revenue extraction platform. Game Dev Tycoon focuses on a casual single player experience – there are no forced wait-times, no virtual coins, no in-app purchases, no ad-breaks, no loot boxes and no overly addictive gameplay mechanics. We don’t care about player retention or average player revenue, nor do we want to catch whales. All we care is that you enjoy the game for as long as you want to. In exchange, we ask for a small upfront fee because your support is the only factor keeping us in business. If you like what we are doing and want to support us further, please take a look at this page.
FAQ
Game questions
If you prefer a longer/shorter game then you can also customize the game length. To do this click on the little cog icon on the screen where you enter your company name. This setting cannot be changed for existing save-games.
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| Game Dev Tycoon | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Greenheart Games |
| Publisher(s) | Greenheart Games |
| Designer(s) | Patrick Klug Daniel Klug |
| Composer(s) | Alexander Lisenkov Jack White |
| Engine | NW.js (PC) Unity(iOS, Android) |
| Platform(s) | Microsoft Windows, Windows RT, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android[1]Nintendo Switch |
| Release | |
| Genre(s) | Business simulation |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
Game Dev Tycoon is a business simulation video game developed by Greenheart Games, which first released on 10 December 2012.[2] In the game, the player creates and develops video games. Game Dev Tycoon was inspired by the iOS and Android game, Game Dev Story[3] (by Kairosoft), and many critics find substantial similarities between the two games. Game Dev Tycoon was created by Greenheart Games, a company founded in July 2012 by brothers Patrick and Daniel Klug. The game has 1–2 million owners on Steam.[4]
Anti-piracy release[edit]
The game's developers implemented a unique anti-piracy measure for Game Dev Tycoon. Patrick Klug, founder of Greenheart Games, knowing that the game was likely to be torrented extensively, purposely released a cracked version of the game and uploaded it himself to torrent sites. Gameplay in this version is identical except for one variation, as players progress through the game they receive the following message:
Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally. If players don't buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt.
Eventually players of the cracked version will gradually lose money until they do go bankrupt, as a result of pirates.[5] News site Ars Technica reported that some players complained on message forums about this piracy feature, unaware that it only appeared because they themselves pirated the game.[6]
Progression[edit]
The player starts out in a garage in the early 1980s during the golden age of arcade video games with no employees, limited money, and limited choices for the first game. As new games are created, new options are unlocked. When the first game engine is built, the player's game development skills improve. New consoles will also be released, and the player will be able to buy licenses for certain consoles, such as the GS, PlaySystem, mBox, Vena Oasis, TES, and grPad which parody real life consoles and devices with different names due to trademark regulations. As the player progresses through the game further they have the opportunity to move to new offices and hire staff. After that further expansion is available, with players given the opportunity to open an R&D lab when reaching certain requirements that host major projects, allowing the player to unlock things they wouldn't be able to otherwise, such as MMOs and online game shops similar to Steam, Uplay, App Store etc. The player may also open up a Hardware Lab to create consoles and devices.
Reception[edit]
| Aggregator | Score |
|---|---|
| Metacritic | PC: 68/100[7] iOS: 89/100[8] |
| Publication | Score |
|---|---|
| TouchArcade | iOS: [9] |
Game Dev Tycoon received varied reviews upon release. Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, gave the game a score of 68 based on 21 reviews, indicating 'mixed or average reviews'.[7]
Mods[edit]
The game has native support for writing mods in JavaScript with the gdt-modAPI. Users have used this on the Steam Workshop with 788 mods listed as of 29 October 2020.[10] They range from simple thing such as adding new consoles and Topics to making new libraries like UltimateLib. One of the most common ways people make these mods is with a Third-party software component called Ultimate Module Editor (UME).
References[edit]
- ^'Game Dev Tycoon combines gaming with business on Android for $4.99'. Android Authority. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^'Game Dev Tycoon Changelog'. Greenheart Games. Retrieved 30 May 2013.
- ^'About Greenheart Games'. Greenheart Games. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
- ^'Game Dev Tycoon - SteamSpy'. SteamSpy.
- ^'Australian Game Developer Trolls Internet Pirates'. Aussie-gamer.com. 30 April 2013. Archived from the original on 14 December 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^Orland, Kyle (29 April 2013). 'Game Dev Tycoon developers give pirates a taste of their own medicine'. Ars Technica. Retrieved 17 November 2016.
- ^ ab'Game Dev Tycoon for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 22 August 2015.
- ^'Game Dev Tycoon for iPhone/iPad Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^Ford, Eric (28 November 2017). ''Game Dev Tycoon' Review – If You Liked 'Game Dev Story' You'll Love 'Game Dev Tycoon''. TouchArcade. Retrieved 25 August 2018.
- ^'Steam Community :: Game Dev Tycoon'. steamcommunity.com. Retrieved 26 May 2018.