Game Dev Tycoon Demo

Video game development is not a career as glamorous as you might think, especially not in the beginning when all you have is an idea. Even after you’ve achieved success and gamers know who you are, it still takes a lot of time to come up with something good, not to mention the fact that you are constantly under pressure from your fans to keep the quality up to a steady level.

Game Dev Tycoon is a simulator that allows you to get a taste of a developer’s life and see whether you have what it takes to make it in the industry. As such, you primary goal in the game is to create your very own game dev company from the ground up and try to develop what the fans want. Thus, you can make a lot of money and gain the necessary experience to expand your business.

In the beginning, you start off by working from your garage, using primitive tools to do so. Since the action begins in the early 80s, the technology is pretty basic as well, which gives you the opportunity to also see how it all evolved over the years. By constantly developing new games, engines, and tools, you can become an important name in the industry by the end, with millions of sold copies.

Money is also crucial, because even the development process requires funding if you are to release your games. Hence, making sure that you know how to properly choose the genres and the topics is critical, otherwise your games will flop and you can go bankrupt relatively quickly. Once you start getting the hang of it though, you can afford some mistakes along the way.

As far as graphics and the user interface are concerned, it should be very easy for anyone to learn how to play the game, not to mention the fact that there’s a tutorial in place to get you started. Sure, most of the screens are static and you basically stare at the same pictures for long stretches of time, but the excitement before the first reviews arrive should make it easier to bear.

In the end, Game Dev Tycoon may not be a work of art, but it is certainly a good way to spend a few hours when you have nothing better to do. If nothing else, this can be a relaxing method to find out more about the gaming industry and how it evolved into what it is today.