I would really like for attributes such as speed to be explained somewhere in the help section. I have a general concept of what design/ technology/ research do, but not in detail. Does speed increase the rate/number of releasing bubbles, (or does design/tech do that?), or does it reduce the time spent in each stage of game development (in which case it may be an adverse trait).
I enjoy the game itself but some of the mechanics are a bit opaque to me.
I absolutely agree with some of the above suggestions, such as adding Puzzle games. Most of my suggestions are honestly minor at best:
A much lower research price on the third tier 2D graphics technology. The fact that you have it and then a much. MUCH cheaper first tier 3D is very confusing.
Clearer explanation on what the different sliders affect, especially in Medium and higher games where you assign certain team members to different sliders. I honestly don’t know how Designing or Technology affects the different tiers and therefore, the quality of the developing game. We should be able to see some of those outcomes before hitting next.
Similarly, there should be hover-text on the sliders rather than needing to hit Escape to see what each category means or does.
Faster animation on the review section or at the very least, the option to skip it faster. It’s the most arduous part of the game.
For pop-up notices, just pop up without the scrolling text to save the players some time. It’s especially annoying to have to slog through pop-up notices that I’ve read a dozen times in previous play-throughs.
The option for sequels should be much, much, MUCH sooner. I don’t get the option for sequels until the faux SNES or even Playstation starts showing up. Video game sequels have been around for much longer than that, dating back to the old Sierra games and earlier.
We’re missing the Atari generation of games. It goes from the faux Commodore 64 and PC right to the NES.
Ability to change engine names after they’ve been created or at least have a message warning that we haven’t given it a name (this goes for games, too). I’ve accidentally created one as generic Engine #3 or Game numerous times. We should also be able to click on said title and have it cleared to type our own. Right now, the only option is to highlight the text and delete it.
Using hover-text again, being able to hover over current Engines to see what they offer.
More details from reviews for what went well or badly.
Most of these are honestly just nitpicking, but I honestly think they’d make the game as a whole more accessible and enjoyable.
Just a few QoL suggestions. I know it’s been stated that GDT is done but it might be worth releasing a patch for balance/gameplay changes.
Tooltips! Please add tooltips so I can either learn what something is on the screen where it appears or remind myself what things are. The less players are forced to open a wiki or scour a help menu the more time they will spend playing your game.
Puzzle should be one of the base game types. I know it technically could be Strategy but Puzzle is very well defined in of itself.
Once you leave the Garage, Reviews should pop up faster as they are still important but don’t need to be the same drumroll they are at first. Also, reviews need to better indicate what went wrong to guide the players towards making better design choices. Right now I get 4s & 5s but the reviewer says stuff like “beautiful” or “needs work.”
Ability to refine an engine, developers do this currently and make improvements to the existing engines. Creating an expensive engine only to finally be able to research Multiplayer or something else I wanted to add only makes me postpone new engines until I’m near bankruptcy because I don’t want to miss a crucial component and have to make another one.
Sequels & Stereo Sound should be available for research as soon as the TES or slightly before it’s released.
2D v3 cost needs to be much lower. Also, perhaps describe the differences between versions? 2D v1: 8-bit, v2: 16-bit, v3: 32-bit?
Platform logic. TES can’t handle 3D, so I shouldn’t be able to use a 3D engine on it. Gameling can’t handle color or stereo so perhaps limit it to 2D v1 engines and Mono-Sound? Consoles have static hardware, thus innovating the game engine isn’t as crucial as PC development until a newer console is released. Game Engines should indicate which platforms they will function on, maybe even during design so players can try to make one that works across multiple platforms.
Thank you for making a highly addictive game, I will be telling everyone I know to swing by your store and pick up a copy.
Proposal to change sequel mechanic.
First make sequels available more early, I don’t believe a person couldn’t normally think up how to make a sequel.
2nd make the sequel sell a minimum percentage of the old game like 25% then add the hype, review calculations and then add another calculation for sales to account for the new features added to the sequel.
3rd, sequels should remember the gameplay/ story percentages in addition to the genre.
I think doing those things will make the game for fun, you can try having established Ip’s to fall back on while making new Ip’s. But they aren’t gonna be guaranteed successes if you don’t add new features, if you constantly make sequels with less features the review scores will drop, people will stop buying, etc.
A lot of the things have already been mentioned that I would like to see to.
But why cant you pick more topics for your game? Like you can pick 2 genre, why not more topics?
Anyway good game, but thought it was a bit easy and “finished” the game in first try where you get to the high score screen.
Just wanted to link to my reply here, because it’s relevant:
http://forum.greenheartgames.com/t/the-game-is-not-finished/997/13
I know you guys are talking about balance and bugs, and that’s important, but one thing I really want to see in the game is the names of other games other players are working on. I get told that my game is wherever on the charts, but wouldn’t it be cool to see the names of competing titles? My favourite thing when reading about other people’s experiences are the game titles and genres they made.
Maybe a leaderboard or something could work? I know WarioWare DIY did something like that and while it didn’t set much of the world on fire, I checked that leaderboard a lot.
In my personal opinion, it’s a little arrogant to say that the game is finished when so many people are giving great ideas to add, as well as pointing out some things that don’t quite work.
I absolutely love this game and bought it as soon as I heard about it so please don’t take what I am saying as an insult, merely an observation that hubris is never an attractive quality in the eyes of customers.
I would personally like to see the actual percentage number (or very close estimate) on the sliders and perhaps a small online manual explaining some of the training modules as the names for them are slightly obscure. I’m not asking for my hand to be held, just more of an explanation about the way things work.
Maybe you could make a small add on pack if it’s a money issue, I’d be happy to pay a little more for extra features.
Well i would like to see the option to pick which controller and which system you use. Also i would like to see an actual color reel where you get to pick primary and secondary colors.
That is only if you make a sequel/add-on/expansion! I would list more but right now its 4 in the morning and i’m extremely tired.
I have to agree with Paul.
I would also be willing to pay for an add-on or DLCs or so.
God knows, id spend a few more bucks on this game, to support you and the game. And i bet a lot of others would do the same here.
There are many cool ideas above.
I played the game for hours yesterday, since I had some holiday.
I have the following ideas in mind:
Love the game, instantly hooked however few ideas that I came up with once I reached year 50+
All I can think off, I know that this was a small game and I really do enjoy it, just a few features I feel could enhance a future installment 
Some more “draft” (“diepgang” dutch) in the game.
1. It would be nice to see some more Controller options, like designing your own, with rumble feature or wireless feature, etc VS other controllers that eventually will appear on the market.
2. New Game +, For replayability, it would be nice to see something like “new game +” I had a succesive run, but by the time i was able to construct my own consoles, the PS4 and final Xbox where already released. The game doesnt really give you the oppertunity to engage in the console wars with your own console. Ofcource starting the game with a high budget or from an office right away should be a reward for finishing the game first.
3. Detailed Game History. The Overview of the Game History is very interresting, but really needs improvement.
If you have over 100 games released you have to browse through a lot and that navigation can use some improvement.
It would be nice if there where some caterories options or if you could sort games by series/franchise.
4 More Random Events
I would like to see some more random Events, and improvement in the excisting ones.
It would be nice if you could decide what you are showcasing on the E3/G3. This feature could really be expanded nicely with an New Game + Feature (#2) in Combination with #6 and #7 So that you would like sorta recieve pre-feedback/expetations on the projects you have in development.
5 AI. In Game Dev Tycoon, i sometimes have the feeling that i have no concurrents, no oposition and that there are no other game developers. There are 2 parts in the game where this actually happens, the E3/G3 booth Ranking and the game rank. But thats it. It would be nice if there would be more insight to the rankings. So that you can see what other titles/companies are ahead or below you and by how much (rating/number of ppl who visited booth). It would also be nice if other companies would try to buy your game engine license, or that you can buy game engine licenses from others.
6 Projects I want to be able to pauze or stop the development of a game at any time till its release.
It would also be nice if you could eventually move on to an even bigger office which allows you to higher more staff so you could run multiple game projects, meaning you could make 2 or more games at the same time.
7 Office Upgrades
The upgrades happen now when they are suggested to you, there could be more to that, Your company needs a website for marketing, maybe even a forum, for fans and support. It will need maintance and a domain/hosting fee.
The office could use more upgrades in general.
8 Streams and Charity
Nowadays these are very populair in gaming. The late game stage should try to implent streaming, it should be researchable. It would also be nice to see charity organisations who want to run a marathon on one of your games, contact you ingame for support/contribution/donation.
9 Reputation
Funny Enough the game’s focus seems to relay on making money. As i stated before it doesnt really feel like your competing with other companies (see #5) I could release 19 bad games and 2 good games and still be succesive. I would like to see an Reputation “stat” in the game, releasing a good game will improve it and vice versa, you get the point. Along with other decisions, like making a patch will increase the reputation.
10 Alter staff requitment
Finding good staff is more luck even if you invest the max ammount in it. I would like to see it changed. It would be nice if you could actually choose to do some of the interviews yourself so you would really feel like a boss and that some of the solicitants show up late or dont shake hands and that you can respond on that. Maybe consider internships aswell.
Refer to Patrick two posts above you. Also, you can always add something to a game, even to large games like Skyrim or even Nethack (the most triumphant example of The Dev Team Thinks of Everything) - this is not arrogance or hubris. This is simply avoiding the Feature Creep.
The design is bad,the GUI design, you guys worked more on technology than on design, i like the game, but the gui is just blaaagh, anyways, thnx for this awesome game
I would love that you could not go forward before you have named your new game. I really hate when my game is named GAME #4 and i forgot to change it. This happens too often cause i like to choose genre and type before i know what i will call the game. Ether way, you have to name the game before you can go forward, or you can name it before release.
But over all i like the game 
The GUI is just fine for a tycoon game. Specific examples of where you feel they failed to deliver and what they could have done is much better feedback than simply calling it “bad” and then covering up your criticism with a partial compliment.
I wouldn’t say so. As long as you play in Fullscreen and with low numbers ticking, the GUI is ok.
If you play in windowed mode things get ugly. Menus are overlapping (e.g. if you are at the develop new game, the vertical middle can’t be used with your mouse, since the previous menu pops up in the background and blocks the components).
When you reach numbers above 1T (ok thats mostly past 30 years) the containers create extra lines for to long numbers (more 1’s in the number deletes the extra line). So the right containers start flickering.
I understand what you mean, but there are still some really good ideas from the people here so far. Others are, admittedly, just too complicated and would make way too much work.
Some of the features already included, however, seem way too random, especially hiring. If I spend $2 million on expenses to hire somebody then I would expect to be getting some amazing additions to my dev team, but it’s no different to when I spend £20k. I also find that the sliders don’t seem to be truly representational of the numbers they seem to be portraying. I guess I just like numbers rather than leaving it all to chance
I only mentioned hubris because in this glorious age of day one patches and expansions it seemed a bit abrupt to just negate any hope of getting some improvements/fixes. A stand that some could take as “This is our game, it’s perfect so like it or go home”.
I really do enjoy the game (I’m almost to the point of making triple A games) and I haven’t come here to cause trouble, but surely you can agree that there are some design oversights?
Regards.
are you serious ? have you played “any” tycoon game ? and “covering” ?? seriously, what are you ? 12 ? the compliment couldn’t be any truthful, I’ve been waiting for a tycoon of this genre since i played my first tycoon game when i was 9, and yes, the gui is “BAD”, and it isn’t a criticism if it’s the truth , and i would love to see like descriptions, tiny icons, etc…related to design.