I love the game! One tiny critique

Game Dev Tycoon
#1

To start I’d like to just say that I am really enjoying the game. I had not heard of it prior to the Steam sale today, but I am so glad I scooped it up. It’s fun and, for a child of the 80’s that grew up gaming on the Atari 2600 through the current gen (with plenty of PC gaming mixed in), it’s funny.

I have one tiny critique: I think that the contract work needs either later due dates, or that employee contribution towards the goals needs to occur more rapidly. I’m in a company with three employees and I am still unable to complete even the “easiest” of contracts. I realize that in the real world you can’t always complete a contract on time (long time network engineer myself), but the hits occur far more than the misses.

Perhaps rather than a simple completion/penalty, you could work beyond the deadline on a contract but your reward would be less depending upon how far beyond the deadline the completion occurs? That’s how it typically works in the real world, at least in my experience.

Thanks for reading

#2

It’s quite possible that your employers are either lacking speed stats or their exhausting bar is low ( they’ll need a vacation )

Or maybe the contracts are too big for them to complete :slight_smile:

#3

Yea I could be doing something really wrong here and not realizing it. I do only try contracts when my employees are rested, so I’ll try training them up.

#4

So here I was trying my best to understand the controls and rules of the game and even gave a whole hour trying to figure out stuff. Frankly speaking, I could not find any as compared to other simple games I play online. How do you guys figure it out?

#5

Read the tutorial messages thoroughly, experiment a lot and make sure that game hints are turned on.