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[Absolute Niro]

This thread brings nothing but sadness to my heart.

Wanna hear soemthing worse? My company made Hundreds of millions doing nothing but sequels to Call of Battle, never doing any real innovation beyond making it look prettier.

Wow, this game is realistic!
_{and thats not even sarcasm fuck my life}

[Ultimuh]

This all sounds suspiciously familiar.

[Chiefwaffles]

It's quite a fun game. In my personal opinion, it has a nice amount of new features compared to GDS, but has a bit less depth.

My company was vaulted into (relative) extreme amount of money when I released a casual racing game called "Racers!" for the Gameling. It felt quite nice, getting 3 million, and extreme amounts of purchases compared to my 200k games. I almost went bankrupt developing it's engine, though.

[jocan2003]

I made HUGE sales on a AAA MMO mature fashion casual game.... 42 total sales, 2 expansion... i try not to think it was about stripping model of cloths. All was on visual gameplay and about nearly nothing else... Oh and some sound... that was an interesting take on the *genre* hahaha

[scrdest]

I made HUGE sales on a AAA MMO mature fashion casual game.... 42 total sales, 2 expansion... i try not to think it was about stripping model of cloths. All was on visual gameplay and about nearly nothing else... Oh and some sound... that was an interesting take on the *genre* hahaha

Could be worse. Mature Dating Sim. Bow-chicka-wow-wow. Got mediocre reviews, around 5, though.

[Ultimuh]

So I am at the edge of a cliff.. Even with this new engine I made, I cannot save my company from it's demise.
I have a tendency to reload and it seems like I can make one game, get a loan to make another game.. then go bankrupt shortly after.

[scrdest]

So I am at the edge of a cliff.. Even with this new engine I made, I cannot save my company from it's demise.
I have a tendency to reload and it seems like I can make one game, get a loan to make another game.. then go bankrupt shortly after.

Hmm... You should probably just keep making semi-decent games selling to a couple hundred fans and never ever use more money than you have. Also, try working on combos.

[Ozyton]

Decided to try to demo to see if I like it. I just released my 8th game, WWI Medic, at year 4 targeted at a mature audience on PC and it almost got all 10s, hehehe.

EDIT: It cost 59k to develop, it got me the 'Cult Status' achievement, and wow it seems to be getting a lot of attention. Apparently it has made gaming history. It generated over 3 million in revenue, and over 2000 fans and was top of the charts. Too bad this is just the demo version, it would have been awesome to keep these results, hehehe, might pick the game up. I've never played Game Dev Story as I don't think I have access to it *shrug*

EDIT 2: I just got the same review scored for the next game, a pirate adventure aimed towards younger people for the Gameling. I must have gotten lucky with my sliders or something.
More edit: Goddamn everybody loves this game too. I wonder if this is scripted to make sure that you don't lose early int he game? I dunno, but I kinda doubt it, but it almost seems that way...
And again: it got Gold status too....

[scrdest]

Decided to try to demo to see if I like it. I just released my 8th game, WWI Medic, at year 4 targeted at a mature audience on PC and it almost got all 10s, hehehe.

EDIT: It cost 59k to develop, it got me the 'Cult Status' achievement, and wow it seems to be getting a lot of attention. Apparently it has made gaming history. It generated over 3 million in revenue, and over 2000 fans and was top of the charts. Too bad this is just the demo version, it would have been awesome to keep these results, hehehe, might pick the game up. I've never played Game Dev Story as I don't think I have access to it *shrug*

EDIT 2: I just got the same review scored for the next game, a pirate adventure aimed towards younger people for the Gameling. I must have gotten lucky with my sliders or something.
More edit: Goddamn everybody loves this game too. I wonder if this is scripted to make sure that you don't lose early int he game? I dunno, but I kinda doubt it, but it almost seems that way...
And again: it got Gold status too....

It is hard to fail unless you completely drop the ball, but the most I got early on were 5s. My first hit was Fantasy Strategy CombatCraft: Ninjas vs. Pirates and then nothing for a while

[Vgray]

Here's my question. Can you make Dwarf Fortress?

[Ozyton]

The first game I made was Tennis for Two, it got 8s as far as I remember. Having a successful first game probably helped me along. Also after my third game I decided to make a crappy game with no graphics and no budget, just to get my skill a bit higher. I didn't even release it, but it was cheap and accomplished what I wanted it to.

I should have made a mature sports game... Mutant League Football =p

Here's my question. Can you make Dwarf Fortress?

Make PC game with poor 2d graphics or text-based, fantasy setting. Dunno about genre though... simulation?
EDIT: You must also never release the full version until ~20 years later, and you must not make revenue from it, relying on donations.

[Ultimuh]

So I started over and I made a super hit which made me almost 3 million.
Game was an Action/Superhero game for PC called Superdude.
So now I just keep making mediocre games to keep me above the 3 million mark.
Considering hiring minions devs to help boost development.

[Chiefwaffles]

Heh. My fantasy MMO "World of Fantasies" was a huuuge hit and, without a publisher, sold over three million copies, getting me about 20-30 million for it.

[Sensei]

Once I get into the second stage, it seems that almost no matter what I do it's a slow grind of wasting away my fortune or breaking even. Also, I can hardly find a single game for the Gameboy that doesn't allegedly clash with the system's target audience. Fantasy adventure? Nope. Sci-fi RPG? Nope. Racing action? All youth targeted and still no, somehow. Actually the only thing I remember offhand was a casual game about virtual pets. But yeah, in general any tips for not getting horrible ratings despite having your design and tech both new high scores?

[Silent_Thunder]

11 years in, still havent made a game engine. 9 million in the bank and growing. I don't know if this counts as cheating the game. Im releasing TEXT BASED games on the Playstation!