Game Dev Tycoon

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Game Info

Game Dev Tycoon is an upcoming isometric business simulation game exclusively for Windows 8 (sorry all other Windows users!), by new studio Green Heart Games, and is in the same vein as Game Dev Story.

Start in the 80's in your garage, developing the games you want to make. As you gain success and capital, you can move out and into your own office, hiring a team, and developing for various platforms. The bigger your team gets, the bigger and more complex the games you make can become.

They're withholding a lot of information about the game, to try and not spoil anything, but the dev's have been saying that as you get bigger, you can undergo industry changing projects. One of which is for an "internet based distribution platform for games. The platform features DRM to combat piracy, and enables a new market for smaller developers to show off their products". Sound familiar?

From their site:
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.

Less Social. Less Ville. More Game.

We love simulation games and that’s why we are proud to bring the very first simulation game to the Windows Store. It isn’t one of these ‘social’ or ‘ville’ type games either but a solid single player tycoon game which have become way too rare in our opinion. In Game Dev Tycoon there are no virtual coins that you need to buy. You don’t need to invite or bother your friends to be able to progress and developing a game or gaining experience doesn’t have you waiting for hours or days, it happens right in front of you. In order to give you this experience the game is not free but has a small up-front price. By purchasing the game you can enjoy a pure experience without constant reminders to purchase something and without distracting ads. You also support a small start-up and help to make sure that we can bring you more games in the future.

Built for the Windows 8 Store

Game Dev Tycoon is exclusively available on the Windows 8 Store and we have designed the game to make the most of the platform. Use touch devices or mouse and keyboard to play the game. Install the game on up to five of your Windows 8 devices. Save-games are automatically synchronized for your convenience. More information on Windows 8 and how you can upgrade from Windows XP, 7 or Vista is available on www.windows.com[/SIZE]
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Its inspired by the Theme Hospital look ye, and windows 7 for the time being.

Also funnily you say that about EA, the best thing to do is sign up with a publisher, get known for a game and put as many people as you can working on it so its gets good reviews etc, then leave and start your own company or something :p
 
Any reviews of this? I googled for reviews and this thread came up as 5th search result, not much out there that I could see.
 
piggeh said:
Any reviews of this? I googled for reviews and this thread came up as 5th search result, not much out there that I could see.
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There's a demo/trial on the store page, its quiet fun and challenging and the team have released a few patches so far to fix bugs etc.
 
I really enjoy it. I'm a fan of Game Dev Story, this is extremely similar, very cheap (£6) and works fine on Windows 7 so i'm happy
 
This game is clearly going to end up in all your games being pirated by 2005.

Its fixed that way as to teach us all a lesson :D
 
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