You can keep playing indefinitely past the 20-year mark if you want, but moving on and starting again is both more fun and more productive. (Get a real job, you losers!) But everything you learn comes with you into your next play-through. And that it's almost impossible to please those anally-retentive reviewers. That jumping on the licensing bandwagon for new consoles as soon as they come out can burn you badly. You'll learn lessons: that hiring one visionary and propping him up with cheap, mediocre staff isn't a recipe for success. As in real life, success depends on careful planning, smart choices and a smidgen of luck. Stats, like the state of your most recent project, sales figures and company reputation, are in a small bar at the bottom of the screen. Consoles, game expos and staff come and go only you are constant, a sprite manager sitting in a comfortable chair, overseeing your little empire.Įverything you need to do – hire, fire and train staff, plug some cash into advertising, plan a new game – you do from a little menu that pops up when you touch the screen. Starting you off with a tiny team operating out of a single room, Game Dev Story gives you 20 years to realise your game development dreams and become a publishing powerhouse. It's monstrously absorbing, and at £2.39, it's not only more addictive than crack but considerably cheaper, too. After 12 hours, I'm on my third company and am still finding new things. Unlike most mobile games, you haven't seen everything that Game Dev Story has to offer in the space of ten minutes. I should mention that this is my third play-through of the games industry management sim. If this is even a fraction of what it feels like to be on the other side of the fence, I'm going to feel a lot guiltier the next time I dole out a 4/10.įrom your viewpoint above the office, you can see all your little drones tapping away on their keyboards. Still, I've become obsessed with getting a perfect 10 from someone, pouring millions of dollars and thousands of tiny-sprite-man-hours into ambitious projects, awaiting review scores with my breath held. Kezsoft has scored a couple of million-sellers regardless of its apparent inability to turn out a Hall of Fame-worthy title. Thankfully, in Game Dev Story, as in life, it doesn't always matter what the critics think. Those miserable, ungrateful, mean-spirited bastards! Don't they know how hard we worked on that? Don't they care? I'll pour everything my little company has into making a Robot Shooter or Time Travel Adventure to redefine the genre, and they'll dismiss it in a second with a tepid 5 or 6 and a glib line of criticism. Vote on content / fetishes / story / character design (1 vote) Name and avatar in the game (Friends Book) Spoiler access Receive new game releases before. or a Deus Ex or an Ico, you see, but I'm foiled at every turn by the damned reviewers. I've been trying for ten game-years to develop a Super Mario Bros.
I've played games that have brought me to the point of existential crisis over my career choice before – Sonic Free Riders, most recently – but Game Dev Story makes me actively hate myself and everyone in my profession.
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