Game Dev Tycoon

Game Dev Tycoon is an economic simulation Greenheart Games, which was published in 2012 for the PC. The aim of the game is to build a successful software company.

Gameplay

In Game Dev Tycoon, the player starts as an ambitious game developers in the early 80's in the garage at home, with the first goal is to develop a commercially successful computer game. After enough money was earned, the company moved into its own office is at, also opens up new possibilities, such as the recruitment of staff and the exploration of new technologies and marketing methods result.

Anti-piracy measure

Knowing that Game Dev Tycoon would be despite a sales price of initially 7.99 U.S. dollar goal of software pirates, put the manufacturer on an unusual measure: Patrick Klug, founder of Green Heart Games, shortly after release of the game released a modified version of the game through BitTorrent, the einblendete a message after some play time:

" Boss, It Seems did while many players play our new game, They steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally. If players do not buy the games They like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt. "

At the same time reduce the revenue from games sales, allowing the firm to the player inevitably goes bankrupt.

As a result, the generated player support requests at Greenheart games in which they pirate the software to command to stop at the lack of opportunity to complain, which they admitted at the same time to have the game illegally obtained.

Reception

In the trade press Tycoon Game Dev received by adult votes. Although though they were a solid implementation of a known concept, but criticized the critics consistently a lack of innovation as well as many minor bugs and vulnerabilities, such as poor feedback about the strengths and weaknesses of developed games. Metacritic reported about 2 years after publication of an aggregate rating of 69 /100 ( as of February 2014, based on 19 reviews ) GameRankings 71.89 % of (as of February 2014 based on 9 reviews ).

" There are tests that simply do not make fun. How I would now let Tycoon Game Dev cheers, the debut of two Unknown. I would love to write that it made speeches not only by an innovative copy of itself, but that behind that is the tip of the season. Even if it is stolen to 87.6 percent. As for her biting sarcasm copiers over again can seem strange. "