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Game Dev Story |OT| of energy drinks and booth babes. Now for Android! (iOS/And)
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Getting an iTouch for this game-- I don't need to pay any subscription fees do I? Just buy the iTouch, and then pay for the game and that's it? That's how I'm interpreting the info I'm getting.
I need this game. It's been so long since I played a good micro-management game, let alone one that's about making video games!
I need this game. It's been so long since I played a good micro-management game, let alone one that's about making video games!
D-Pad said:Getting an iTouch for this game-- I don't need to pay any subscription fees do I? Just buy the iTouch, and then pay for the game and that's it? That's how I'm interpreting the info I'm getting.
I need this game. It's been so long since I played a good micro-management game, let alone one that's about making video games!
Yeah thats right, but man you must be made of money. I mean, the game is fun but it is in no way worth it to buy the hardware just to play it.
Emerson said:
you need the fun level to be over 100.
if you have to, pay an outside consultant with scenario of over 200 to start things off. also, its not a bad idea to buy the FunBoost item from the salesman. in a pinch, you can use it to add some extra fun point. I can get between 15 and 35 extra points when I use it. (uses 30 or 40 research points)
if the game gets reviewed well due to the Fun level and has a good combo of theme and genre, youll get hall of fame reviews and major sales.
then, if you choose a sequel, you automatically get bonus fun points just starting development, giving you a better chance of repeating success.
essentially, if you want major cash in this game, play it relatively safe. for shits and giggles, you can try some robot dating sims or ninja crosswords or whatever, but those will not lead you out of niche status.
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
john tv said:Does the genre itself have that much of an influence? I made a convenience store music game (Conbini Rock) that sold 14 million copies ;p
My last three games have sold over 30 million each, and I've swept the awards three years running. Can't stop playing.
WHAT THE HELL BUNGIE...TELL US YOUR SECRETS!
Fantastical
Death Prophet
FUCK THIS GAME! Can't get anything done.
Emerson said:
Online RPG comes way late in the game, anyway.
generally, you need to level up and train people in different positions.
you get different genre unlocks from Sound Engineers or Producers or Directors, etc.
I wish I paid attention to who unlocked what and at what skill level it happened :lol
harriet the spy
Member
The one thing i wish is that this game would let you do ports :lol
If I am rich enough to afford a licence on all systems, why would i not want to port my games everywhere?
If I am rich enough to afford a licence on all systems, why would i not want to port my games everywhere?
I am going to guess it's more random, or maybe there are weird conditions for unlock, because i unlocked online rpg pretty early (snes era, if i remember correctly. i am at iteration 6 of my mmorpg and the game box is just about to come out).LCfiner said:
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Damn, I can't make over 10,000K, and licensing fees are DAMN expensive.
Ether_Snake
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criesofthepast said:
Dude, if you do iPhone development, make the same game but about movie production. It basically writes itself, and I bet it would be a big hit. If you want to make money you can outright copy it and just make it about movies. That's how Gameloft makes money anyway (they copy all Blizzard games).
Edit: Btw I only recently discovered how to discover new game genres. You need to train your staff in all things. So get your coder to go to a concert, etc. Make them do EVERYTHING. I got Mahjong, I got Volleyball, I got Junior High and High School, Soccer, etc. It feels like it never ends! I keep finding more and more (I'm playing past year 20 btw). But I forget how to get new game types?
Oh and ALL the games I make now are #1 and HOF. I could keep making sequels but I'm having fun making mostly new games, with a sequel here and there. My top selling game was Grand Turismo (motorcar or some such and simulator). 19m copies!
Oh and if you make a Popstar game, make sure you outsource the sound to the Musician girl with the red cap and the glasses. She's like some Shakira girl or something.
Anyone knows if the Oil Tycoon guy is worth hiring? What is he for, making a lot of money? I hired Mister X to replace Newb Oberton, he's pretty good. I didn't hire Miyamoto though, he didn't seem that good.
I'm making pretty much only PS3 and Wee games now. I guess the next step would be to make my own console but I can't find a hardware dude.
And I unlocked Online RPG on the DS. So it really has to do with training (probably netsurfing or some such).
Pristine_Condition
Member
This isn't bragging, but I'm having a hard time believing you guys aren't regularly selling 25M+ units of your games. I'm on my second play through now, but I was getting 24M+ regularly after Year 13-14 on my first play through.
I have no idea how to get a hardware engineer though. Dude never showed up in hiring. I'm going to figure it out this time though.
You guys have to be more ruthless with firing people at first. Only when you get somebody good do you start piling the training on. And yeah, outsourcing rocks.
I have no idea how to get a hardware engineer though. Dude never showed up in hiring. I'm going to figure it out this time though.
Ether_Snake
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You can try to make someone change job I think, probably if they have a lot of training. Not sure.
roosters93
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My console has the highest marketshare yeew
Fantastical
Death Prophet
I guess that's my problem, haven't fired people.Pristine_Condition said:
Second playthrough will be better.I'm doing extremely well right now too (30M+ per title at this point), but I do wonder if you can do this every time or what? I've pretty much got a formula down now that works on almost every game. The only time I run into problems is when power outages occur, or someone else releases a similar game before mine is out. I also did a shit-ton of sequels (probably 4 or 5 for every 1 original IP) and stuck to platforms that did well in the real world (in other words no NEC consoles, no Virtual Boy, no Sega hardware because they always tanked in Japan).Pristine_Condition said:
I advertise on the moon for every game, I outsource a lot of stuff to the most expensive contractors, never use the same people on two titles in a row, I hire new people every 4 or 5 games, etc. etc.Looking forward to doing a second run-through to see how things change.
OrangeYouGlad
Banned
Pristine_Condition said:
You have to level 5 every skill on 1 employee. So buy up those career change cards.
the game gets pretty much super-easy after the beginning. so much so that it's basically sandbox mode. stopped counting my GOTYs and money (trillion?). my only major gripe with the game -- i wish the very early difficulty where you have to make some tough decisions scaled throughout
criesofthepast
Member
I'm getting 30,000,000+ sales now for every game. :/
Use a hollywood agent to hire a bunch of hackers and make them all level 5 and you are pretty much set. I also do the "anime" $70,000 training because it raises every stat and is the best bang for the buck.
Use a hollywood agent to hire a bunch of hackers and make them all level 5 and you are pretty much set. I also do the "anime" $70,000 training because it raises every stat and is the best bang for the buck.
Good idea.Ether_Snake said:
Fantastical
Death Prophet
But if you do other types of training you unlock other types of games that you can make, so you may want to start changing up the way you train if you want more genres.criesofthepast said:
criesofthepast
Member
Shit didn't know that! I need more genres. And I should probably real the manual too.Fantastical said:
Fantastical
Death Prophet
Don't worry, I didn't know either until I read it on GAF. I wish the game's tutorial introduced the smaller features of this game. I mean, I understand most of the game, but I feel that casual players might not.criesofthepast said:
EDIT: What am I saying, the game has no tutorial.
harriet the spy
Member
developing your own console takes a ton of time. wondering if it was worth it. i went straight from the ps era to developing a 64 bits blu drive console. those fuckers better get second jobs to buy my beautiful jeannestation.
Fantastical said:
Yeah I happened to figure it out myself. I actually like that you dont know exactly how to expand your genres, because once you see it happen...it actually makes sense.
Got to my 20th year. Game entered easy mode once I got my staff up to par. After that you could easily just do sequels from then on out and get almost perfect scores. Hell even new games get almost perfect scores every time. Didnt need to outsource anymore, could afford the most expensive advertising, afford to develop for any console, etc. Made my own console and then made 5 AAA titles right up to the end of the 20th year.
Game was really good, but it definitely suffers from what most rpgs suffer: Once your stats get to a certain point you know longer need to strategize and the game plays itself. Still a fun ride though and well worth the $4. When you start to see your scores finally improving, or when you buy your first major console license, or hire your first director...man those moments felt good, heh. In a sequel they would just need to make sure that stats werent everything, and that you still needed to make real decisions in order to succeed. Even if you are rich you should be able to lose your fortune with repeated bad decisions.
Pristine_Condition
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AstroLad said:
HAve you noticed guys hitting the wall late in games, like hackers who were lighting up huge numbers in development become really ineffective (like single digits) suddenly?
I wonder if that means I need to give them a different job type...or maybe I'm on the wrong console platform...
How do you do sequels in this game?
There are no option choices for it other than "New Game" and "Contract".
Highest selling game so far is my fantasy RPG "Drop of God" on PlayStatus at 2.5 million units.
Kind of screwed up a lot in the beginning so this is my test run. Year 16 and barely able to crank out the AAA titles.
There are no option choices for it other than "New Game" and "Contract".
Highest selling game so far is my fantasy RPG "Drop of God" on PlayStatus at 2.5 million units.
Kind of screwed up a lot in the beginning so this is my test run. Year 16 and barely able to crank out the AAA titles.
harriet the spy
Member
you need a hall of fame game.chespace said:
This game was pretty easy. First playthrough, and by the end, I was making games that sell 40+ million. My highest selling game was We Fitter which sold 54 million copies. Go figure. My 2nd best selling game is an online RPG called Wowie which sold 49+million, and 3rd best selling is an action spy game called Metal Cell, which sold also around 49million.
It was pretty funny that there are more games sold than there are consoles. My console, ps360, only has 19+ million sales and yet the games have no problem selling 40+ million near the end :lol
The key to the game is to build up a cache of hall of fame games (like 5 or 6) and then switch between them. Sequels start off with some base fun, so they pretty much guarantee good reviews which makes it easier to garner sales, and eventually, you'll max out genre and type of game, which allows to you to churn out hit after hit.
One tip is to hire aggressively, especially after you move for the last time, and to train your employees after you develop every game. Try to keep 2 personnel to perform every task so that you can rotate between them with every game. There are 3 hackers available at the last stage of the game. Get them as quickly as you can.
It was pretty funny that there are more games sold than there are consoles. My console, ps360, only has 19+ million sales and yet the games have no problem selling 40+ million near the end :lol
The key to the game is to build up a cache of hall of fame games (like 5 or 6) and then switch between them. Sequels start off with some base fun, so they pretty much guarantee good reviews which makes it easier to garner sales, and eventually, you'll max out genre and type of game, which allows to you to churn out hit after hit.
One tip is to hire aggressively, especially after you move for the last time, and to train your employees after you develop every game. Try to keep 2 personnel to perform every task so that you can rotate between them with every game. There are 3 hackers available at the last stage of the game. Get them as quickly as you can.
beat
Member
This is really the only reason I hired Mr X: he started at level 5 on his first job already, shortening the process a bit.johnsmith said:
Yeah, the first time I won the grand prize is when I realized all the money in the game was displayed in thousands, as in I had (say) $2500K" in the bank, so an extra million wasn't a huge deal.Fixed2BeBroken said:
In a pinch? I just use the boosts _all the time_.LCfiner said:
I established like 3 or 4 franchises because that way I could cycle the sequels without just pumping them out nonstop. Felt more sustainable that way. It didn't actually work out perfectly - some sequels had sales 50% below their predecessors, for some unknown reason. Still good, but not take-over-the-world money.
BTW, is it just me, or are FPSes not AAA material in this game?
sonikokaruto
Banned
i didn't knew you had to level up someone all 5 for the hardware engineer.
there are some that only have 3 or 4 options, do those also count?
there are some that only have 3 or 4 options, do those also count?
I spent so much of my weekend playing this. Every time I went to the bar on Saturday night, I'd spend 5 minutes playing it before bringing the drinks back. One of my friends found me hiding in a toilet cubicle because I'd just figured out how to develop a console so I wanted to keep an eye on it. Lunchtime Sunday a friend called me out for spending all day texting on my phone. I was playing Game Dev Story.
At the end of all this though, Smoky Studios has $850 million in the bank, 35 HoF games (including 2 40/40's) won GoTY 3 times, and my biggest seller, Clungeon, moved over 50 million units.
Time to start a new studio, methinks.
At the end of all this though, Smoky Studios has $850 million in the bank, 35 HoF games (including 2 40/40's) won GoTY 3 times, and my biggest seller, Clungeon, moved over 50 million units.
Time to start a new studio, methinks.
ChackanKun
Member
Bought the game yesterday. Still in year 3, but having a great time!
Think I'm going to restart all over because I wasn't sure what I was doing when I started lol
Think I'm going to restart all over because I wasn't sure what I was doing when I started lol
