The Game Dev

Shawn Macgillivray

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About this game

Quit your day job and begin developing games!

From the humble beginnings of programming alone in the basement, build up your company by employing and training new workers, researching new technologies and dominating the market with hit games of your design.

History
Follow a roughly similar gaming history as the real world as famous companies release their gaming consoles, starting with the first generation 8bit consoles, play through 60 years of history and see all the technological advances, from 2D graphics all the way to augmented reality.

Game Creation
Decide how much time your workers should spend on each aspect of game development, Include features that are relevant to your chosen genre and topic and be rewarded with great reviews, high sales and happy fans.

Company Growth
Grow your company by moving out of your basement and into an office where other developers can join your ranks, upgrade your office to unlock extra abilities that will help you develop games of higher quality or maybe try your luck by creating your own gaming console.

Features
* Begin your own game development company
* Create games of 8 different genres and up to 100 unique topics
* Instruct your workers to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of consoles
* Create your own custom game engines with technologies you have researched
* Compete in Development Champions against rival companies
* Upgrade your offices
* Create sequels of your most popular hits
* Take out business loans to ensure you're never short on funds
* Multiple languages supported
* Includes four game modes, standard, No PC mode, Creative mode (can only use each topic once) and a special hard mode that features market crashes, the Y2K bug and a global recession.

The Game Dev does not contain any ads! However a small one time fee of approximately $2.66USD is required to unlock the rest of the game once you reach 1990.

Ratings and reviews

A pretty good game. Though I have some ideas that would make it a bit better. I'm only in 1990 so I apologize if some of these features are actually in the game. 1. Cross platform games 2. Expansion packs to games and later on, DLC 3. MMO shouldn't be in topics, and should be a feature unlocked later on in the game 4. More topics, such as: dinosaurs, anime, holiday, crime, city, feudal era, etc. I sent an email cuz my whole review wouldn't fit.

Decent game,time killer for a while,but the 1990 blockage w/ payment ia ridiculous! Especially considering the fact that the game has lots of bugs and the bugs while making a game,cannot even be debugged! The expense menu in manage doesnt work too so its not worth it especially because the game is very slow and year dependant,the Speed up doesnt work properly and sometimes doesnt work even when training

Honestly I absolutely love this game, played for a good 2-3 hours straight before the demo ended. I have one problem though, not directly with the game itself. I tried buying the full game when the popup appeared but it keeps saying my transaction was declined. I have more than enough money available, I have the right addresses and everything, do you maybe have an idea of why this is happening and how to fix this?

What's new

Added Portuguese language option