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This isn't my kind of game so I won't be playing it, but after reading about their anti-piracy stunt I'm going to buy a copy anyway. I like a bit of irony and they scored 10/10 for that.
 
Wucked said:
This isn't my kind of game so I won't be playing it, but after reading about their anti-piracy stunt I'm going to buy a copy anyway. I like a bit of irony and they scored 10/10 for that.
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The irony is, they've effectively copied a Japanese mobile game (Game Dev Story) ;)
 
Just because the devs have released a 'bugged' copy of the game, it doesn't mean real hackers won't crack it.

In fact I easily found a cracked version that doesn't have the bug.

Looks good. Shame its W8 only.
 
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It's really hard. I've got to 4m fund in the second office but it's possible to lose it all with a couple of bad games :eek:
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I know, got to the second office with a nice 2m in the bank, after having a roaring success on the G45, but then I get wiped out continuously just not able to keep the technology up to continue to make games, might go back to the beginning and stay in the garage a little while longer building tech up and making a new engine before moving over.
 
Hey guys what how do I stop people pirating my games? I am unable to make a profit now no matter what I do.

just trolling :P I'm not a pirate
 
Been playing the demo and it's a bit of a blast. The very last game I released for the TES, "Times of Yore 2" sold 300k copies, made 2 million, got 3 10/10's and hit the No. 1 spot. A legend is born.

...and to think I started out determined to stay true to my PC roots. :o
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reminds me of rockstar ate my hamster from back in the day.

someone should really remake that :)
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I was thinking that while playing this. And to think I used to use Sidney Sparkle and Wacko Jacko as my stars. :eek:
 
Oh it's a load of fun, actually, this game. Surprised at how much I'm enjoying it. There's no actual office building or anything so if that's specifically what you're looking for you're out of luck a bit.

Something to note, though, if you're doing publisher deals, be careful which ones you accept. If you accept something like Werewolf/Casual like I did, even with a minimum 5 score requirement you might not even get that just because of how bad the combination is. Unless of course you get lucky and get the "unusual combination" trend.

It's a shame that I almost didn't buy this just because of the piracy publicity. The way it's being portrayed is annoying the crap out of me as the stats don't reflect actual piracy rates, and his marketing primarily to pirates isn't being acknowledged as a driving factor for the 90% rate on this game.
 
Had a lot of fun, completed it now. Picture of the end of the game in the spoiler tags :)

Deff recommend playing it lost about 12 - 16 hours playing over the last couple of days. I went bankrupt about 5 times before getting though :)

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If anyone is wondering what the best selling game / Profit was for me
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What sort of games are you guys making at the start? I have made (in the trial) 3 games the first was good with av rating of 7, space adventure game. After that I tried to make other combos and incl steering wheel for a racing sim and they all flopped. Whats the best way to start off and progress?
 
medieval strategy done well for me, my best however was a vampire RPG, 3 x 10s and 1 x 9, one of my first games after getting out of the basement and it sold 1.5 million copies!

Compared to my other games which normally ship 200K, it was a hit. No idea why though lol

I tried to copy the total war series, as well as Vampire bloodlines etc.
 
Droolinggimp said:
What sort of games are you guys making at the start? I have made (in the trial) 3 games the first was good with av rating of 7, space adventure game. After that I tried to make other combos and incl steering wheel for a racing sim and they all flopped. Whats the best way to start off and progress?
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I was playing the demo, and after a 7 rating game, the game stopped.

I saw that it was like a hit and miss. If you keep doing the same thing, you get little research, if you swap, it may fail. No idea what constitutes a good game.
 
On my 5th game (i restarted the demo) and it was blatant copy of fifa... got 9978 in reviews. did well. Now im researching open world and aiming to make a WoW beater...:-)

Edit. Warcraft:

389,782 units and £2.7 m in sales.. awesome.. just they wait till the World version comes out...:_)
 
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Played the demo last night and could see this being a very big time sink. :D

Ready to buy, but I want to wait until it's on Steam as I have about £9 sitting in my wallet. Any idea how long it might take to get Greenlit? If it'll be ages I'll probably just buy it direct from their site instead.
 
NOOOOOOO... I moved to the first office and hired two people one being David Draben :-) I sank all my money into research and got the sequel option. After Warcraft made me millions it was only wise to do the sequel. Made the game and the reviews were 10,10,9,10.. I went bankrupt before it got released... It would have paid off my bank loan and made MILLIONS i tell ye' ..

Start all over again.
 
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