07 September 2013

Review: Game Dev Tycoon

Game Dev Tycoon is a simple but hugely addictive game which has started and grow your own game development company.

I once saw this game on the Android and not sure if it is the same people, but found this  game really fun since I am a gamer myself.

The beginnings of 'Buzza Games'



You start in your garage in the 1980s and you begin to devleop games on your own for PCs and older consoles at the time. (I also notice the very fimilar car in the garage).

As you progress in the game and time, the type of games you develop expand and the consoles and platforms you develop for increase. You are in charge with the combo of game types like whether you desgin a City/Simulation game, Military/Action game or whatever you like. You gain more sales of you game that you develop with better and fun combinations.

As you go you move to a small office and then eventually to your own campus. As you expand, you hire employees and coders to help you develop better games quickly.

The challenge in this game is getting the combination of game right as well as selecting the right amount of time allocated to the features to be developed for that game. If you are developing a Zombie/Action game, then focus on game dialog is less important than graphics and sounds. As you continue on you get to also develop your very own gaming engine which helps with graphic leveling, features like open world and tree dialogs.

I have found this game oddly addictive and did end up finishing the game in about 5 hours. The challenges and the excitment of building your own game and see it sell over millions of copies in its first week is very exciting and awarding. But the devestation in putting hard work into game and see if fail with you fans is hard-hitting. Once you complete and release your game, the game is immediately reviewed by game critics who score you game out of 10. I class my game a winner anything over 5, but I found that I would either average 3 with a bad game or average 8 with a good game.



This game is currently available on Steam and on the Windows Store. I can tell this has been developed to be touch friendly, and even their website shows the game on a Surface tablet.

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