Have you ever heard the first game tycoon? Rare indie game

Game Dev Tycoon
#1

I once encountered this game and actually played it yrs ago. It’s 100% different and more complicated. There’s no sliders and such and all you have to do is name your game. I forgot other features but you have to go to a room with a huge goddamn machine and that’s where you publish your game.:smiley: Then it will be on the stores depending on how many copies you’ve made. Complicated right?

You go to room by room, okay. You can walk. xD

There are rivals…TOUGH rivals or maybe because I just suck at making games that time.:smiley:

Cannot search for it anymore:

http://www.gamerankings.com/pc/932120-game-tycoon/index.html

#2

I remember playing that game too. Only that game was really limited, yearly you get a new feature to add. (Marketing products/Products in box/Game features) It was still fun and I played it for a pretty long time. It was weird, but cool. I was always waiting for a Game Dev Sim, Game Tycoon was the option on that moment, but since I heard about Game Dev Tycoon, I’m only playing that.

#3

I once play Japanese “game development” game but it’s Simulation/RPG more than a tycoon game.

It’s PS1 game “The Game Maker”. You play as a producer in game development team.

Goal of this game is to make a game that can sell 1m in Japan in 10 years (if I remember correctly).

Each character are specialize in their own fields - Planer, Programmer, Graphic or Music.

You as a producer has to give each “work” to each one in your team.

Ex. in Music, it’s can be separate to BGM and Sound Effect ,and not every music specialize are good in both of them.

Every characters in this game are unique, they have personality, has trial, pro and con.

Ex. someone like to smoke, you has to separate him/her to another room, if not other character that didn’t smoke will get penalty to all their skill…

It’s has item to upgrade your team member, like paint program that can boots skill in 2D graphic, New computer that can upgrade every skill, etc

This game is fun and sometime make you laugh.

Once, I accidentally give my only programmer a ticket for study trip, and he will be absent for a week.

But there is a programmer work left undone and deadline is coming!

I has to give that work to my planer (he has some skill in programmer), and work day and night!

When he fall asleep, I hit him with paper fan to wake him up and give every items that boots endurance like black coffee and red bull to him then work for 3 days without sleeping!!

The finished work is abysmal but at lease it meets the deadline. You know, the show must go on.

#4

That looks awesome.:smiley: Why didn’t I hear about it? But it’snot english?

#5

No, only in Japanese.

I’m only know katakana (Japanese alphabet for spelling foreign language).

But that’s enough to play this game. (and a lot pf guess work).

some screenshot of this game
http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/572927-the-game-maker/images/box-12988

#6

Japanese and their weird way of box arts.:smiley:

#7

The next version of GDT should be “Game Tycoon Dev Tycoon” where we focus solely on making game development tycoon games.

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#8

I think, it should be Game Dev Tycoon 2: Rise of Game Development

#9

game tycoon is the reason i’m aware of game dev tycoon, i searched for a guide for game tycoon and found a report from chip on the piracy trolling, i went on greenheart games’ site and just bought the game without testing, i mean i got screwed by some big publisher games that cost 50€, i did not care about 8$ which were 5,72€ or so, i’m sad that this kind of genre (buisness sim) is nearly dead, there aren’t any big titles anymore, except for the x-series from egosoft, but it’s a combo with a bit more action rather than plain tycoon,

if the 8$ helps for the next tycoon’s i’m proud that i payed that

#10

Game Dev Story was 1997 (rereleased in 2010 or early)

Game Tycoon was made in 2006.

Game Dev Tycoon was made in 2012 or 2013.

Theres ya times of games. Yup.