My suggestions/report

Game Dev Tycoon ideas
#1

I absolutely love the game, but some things irritated me. Here are my suggestions:

Suggestions

  1. The Design and Technology circles overlay the game/progress bar, this can be quite irritating sometimes and I think it looks pretty ugly (My opinion)
  2. Add more stuff to the 2D Graphics so that more people will use it. For stuff like Retro games and 2D platformers.
  3. Its sometimes really irritating to click employees to train them, let them research stuff etc. I think you should make it so that there is a button you press to get the employee menu. Or in the menu to make a new game etc. add a button that allows you to choose what employee does what.
  4. Add more consoles and handhelds. What about the Gameboy Advance, the 3DS, the Vita etc. It would also be very awesome if you could invest in playing machines in playing halls. (I’m sorry if you don’t understand that, my native language isn’t English)
  5. You could add randomly generated boxart of games based on the Design- and Techpoints, how much time the different areas got (Gameplay, AI etc.)
  6. Add more customisation to the console. (Specs like)

Bugs I found

  1. If you drag your mouse to get to the R&D lab or the Hardware lab, you can see a white line and when you let go it dissapears.
  2. It lags horribly when I try to create a game when I’m about 30 years in. This even happens with small game and I also get lagspikes when I’m not doing anything.

I’m playing the game on a Win7 Laptop.

Thanks for reading. (Sorry if there were spelling mistakes)
Mr. Ace

#2

There is a little concept called ‘Challenge’. The idea behind this concept is to limit the options of the player just enough that the player has to make some decisions about what they can afford to keep or cut. If you could hire an employee for each specialisation, then the obvious choice becomes one of making sure you have one of each. Instead you have the challenge of making the right choice.

Remember that the right choice for one style of play may not be the right choice for another style.

There is a known issue that the game does not scale very well. What resolution are you using? Also OS, Processor, and GFX card specs might be useful.

#3

Here’s my specs:
Intel core i3, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5145 Graphics 1GB.
And my screen resolution is 1600 x 900.
And I’m sorry about that employees stuff, I never really thought about it.

#4

  1. I would like to see different layout presets

  2. Its been requested before

  3. Its been requested before

  4. It’s been requested before.
    I understand what you mean, but I think the Company Convention kinda counts as what you mean

  5. Sorry, what does this mean?

  6. A lot of console customization is needed

#5

By boxart I mean how the front of the retail copy of the game would look like.

#6

Oh, well then, its been requested before

#7

Well… I tried my best.

#8

Thanks for the ideas and feedback, we appreciate it! :smile:

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#9

You did indeed, you were just expressing what you feel was needed for a better game and I congratulate you for it. But, what I found about these ideas, and this is not just towards you, I’ve done this on other threads, is that the ideas have been suggested before by other users. I only want a more organized presentation of these threads where only un-suggested ideas are welcome, others will regarded as requested before. Plus; although I have never experienced being a employee or volunteer for GreenHeart Games, it would be very tiring and depressing to cycle through hundreds of ideas and suggestions which have been made before. I do apologize for any insults I have thrown at you, but I feel I’d rather have an organized system of organizing suggestions.

#10

I understand what you mean. I’ll be more careful next time if I post a suggestions thread. Thanks.

#11

All well written and thought out ideas and feedback are welcome, the more something is requested the more popular it is and the more likely we are to consider it for Game Dev Tycoon II :wink: