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Game Dev Tycoon is a simulation game where you play as the proprietor of a game software company. You start off as a coder in your garage. With luck and perseverance, you'll eventually end up with a legion of fans and a crack team of programmers to help you make AAA games.
Installation
The installation could not be simpler. After you buy the game straight from Greenhart Games (greanhartgames.com), you'll receive an email with a link to a tar. After downloading and opening the tar, you will be given a choice of an x32 or x64 game. Once you make your choice, the Ubuntu Software Center will open up and help finish the installation.
Game Play
Game Dev is a little meta because you are making a game within a game. The game takes you through the ages of gaming history, starting roughly in 1984, and all the way up to 2015. And, when I say “roughly”, I mean it, because time is not based on the Gregorian calendar. Time is measured in years from when your avatar started programming games.
This game appealed to me in several ways. For one, I have always been a sucker for simulation games, and managerial games doubly so. Secondly, I have a history of programming and make a living off of it – when I'm not writing reviews.
With that being said, this game is not like prancing through a bed of poppies in order to get to Oz. In fact, the biggest thing that can kill your career plans is an extremely successful game – for, when that happens, everyone will judge you more harshly. You can also sandbag yourself by hiring too many underlings, or underlings who are asking for a wage that you cannot afford. Lastly, your game engine could be outdated. As a result, all of your games are also outdated.
A problem with the game is how it rigorously follows gaming history. Though the names are changed, it is not hard to guess that a Japanese company, who broke into the US market with its TES system, is going to make a new system called the Super TES. The game platforms are too easy to predict and guess.
Game Dev Tycoon has been an experience that allowed me to pretend that I am a malevolent boss of a game company. It's very challenging, and forced me to make sure that the next game was not going to break the budget and that I had just enough people for the job. With that being said, the game goes through very predictable turns that can have “unseen” events that can be avoided without any problem. It is a good game, but after you finish a company or two, you'll be tired of it.