Reviewing a game where the objective is to get the best reviews, the irony.
Game Dev Tycoon is an indie game, recently pushed through Steam Greenlight. It is developed by Greenheart Games and is their first tittle. This will only be a short review as not being an AAA tittle, it isn't the most indepth game. You play the role of a game developer in his career to start a company and become a successful game developing firm. The game starts with yourself in a garage and progress to untapped opportunities. At one point, the developers at Greenheart thank you for buying their game with a popup message which I found to be a nice touch. As you gain in size and money you can produce bigger games, research genres, develop your own engine and try to produce the perfect game. In terms of graphics, since there is little movement or any advanced simulations, it is all basic and very obviously not meant to be an ultra realistic simulation but is cute and all good quality. You can find yourself spending hours making use of new possibilities, acting on ideas or (as I did) try to produce as many games that rip off famous tittles as possible.
To get the perfect game, you have to balance work loads out between differently trained employees, try to use the precise formula of different game aspects (Sound, graphics, gameplay etc.) and platform to achieve the desired effect of the game genre you have chosen. Sounds complex but if you follow the tutorial it is super easy, just requiring some experimentation to find that sweet combo. For me the fantasy RPG of First Fantasy did it, scoring me a perfect score which I have yet to replicate. Greenheart have mastered the rip off technique, since you have to get an idea of platforms, they use names such as zonny and the mBox, giving me a good chuckle as I played.
At the low price of around $10 this is a nice little pick up that definitely deserves a play, even with the challenge of knowing why level design is different from world design. 6/10. More games please.
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