The reality is I could go on and on about all my systems / algorithms for 20 more pages but I believe it would be best suited for a video if people are interested. I am incorporating mile stone scoring systems and leaning into leader-boards both for just yourself if you wish or world wide boards where the best developers will be listed. This also makes the game balanced between different players and much more competitive which is my goal. This ensures you must train your worker to improve there production combined with better engines to surpass these minimum checks. There is also a tech + design minimum based off the year as well which is = 100 * year for small games. This forces you to research new features and make more powerful engines to meet this minimum as years pass.

In my game there are technical minimums which are = 5 * year for small games. The way I have fixed this issue is using time as the factor to push progression. Then you go back to doing your thing but those 6-8s are now 4-6's and you might be on the road to bankruptcy unless you make more fantasy rpgs exactly how you did before. If your a legit player not using guides and you are just making a bunch of 6-8's and having fun, but then you get lucky and you make a fantasy RPG that you just nail and it gets 10s. With this system an average game compared to your last average game can yield 10s but its only an average game. If you want to exploit the system your encouraged to make consistently average games while training once or twice between each game to ensure a slight improvement. This is highly exploitable and worse it can ruin the game of a newer player just trying to enjoy the game. Don't get me wrong what they have done in GDT is great but its flawed in many ways.įirstly the main thing that pushes you to improve your worker / games is the fact your score is based off your previous best score. My second issue is with there algorithms. Features work to empower stages in a more obvious way with technical limits and all sorts of factors at play to influence your design but its all on screen for you to just stay immersed and play the game. These sliders have constraints you need to work within such as a High slider will cause a quality loss if its under 20% of the stage but you can put it at 20 - 98% of the stage depending on what the game needs in terms of balance. Sliders for example have priorities ranging from Very low, Low, Normal, High, Very high. Provided you have done the research everything is displayed to you on screen in clean easy to understand terms. So it is impossible for there to be a guide. This is because I am using a weighted procedural system to generate matches based on rules to ensure a good set of values for every play through. My game seeks to alleviate this in 2 major ways.įirst: Every new game takes place in an alternate reality where you DO NOT know any matches for topics / genres / audiences / platforms etc.

What you are shown is only given in cryptic ways that basically leads you to follow a chart or even worse a trainer to make good games. If you get into the game and wanna do well you will quickly notice the game is quite complicated under the hood, and you aren't shown anything in game for a lot of the stuff involved in the scoring.

In reality if you enjoy the game the majority of the time the game looks more like this. My first issue with GDT is the game is super cute and I love the style of how it looks / plays which is something like this. I think game dev tycoon has a couple major flaws, and I seek to correct them. But I think Game dev tycoon's style is the best. Such as mad game dev, game dev studio etc etc. I have played a lot of game dev simulations and there are lots of great ones. My name is Ryan Saunders and I am an indie game developer.

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