[iPhone][iPod Touch][iPad] Game Dev Story

[bradigor]

Someone mentioned the need for this to have it's own thread... So here you are.

Get it here

[Rev]

It's amazing.

I am rubbish at it.

[Disgraced Toblerone]

We should post our best selling games, with their title and machine of choice. I'm pretty sure some of you could come with cracking ideas.

And did you notice you can make ports of existing game, but not develop for different platforms from the go?

Ahem.

[Tomdominer]

I like it, but I think I've basically won the game on my second go. I've moved into the third office, I've created around 20 #1 games in a row and have enough money to do anything. :/

I win every single award form the game awards thingy, apart from the game of the year, which I assume is the end-game? Anyway, it's still very good.

[Chooch]

I'm concerned what they are going to call the consoles once they get past the current crop.

I'm up to the gamecube equivalent at the moment.

[Rev]

We should post our best selling games, with their title and machine of choice.

Golfs sold 2.1m.

It was a golf sim. A spiritual sequel to Golf, a golf sim, which sold 1m. Golfs was sadly followed by GolfSim, which was struck by a power-cut and a crap designer, and sold 1.1m.

I suspect these aren't the cracking ideas you were speaking of.

[Melon_Bread]

Brilliant stuff, like had been said gets pretty easy late game, all my games go to number 1, my RPG series Seven Heads has Q's round the block and sells over 6 millions copies, not won the grand prize at the awards yet tho. I have a mexican wrestler and an arab working in my studio and someone called Shigeto Minamoto.

By far the best iphone game I have played.

[Janski]

My fantasy RPG for the Playstation called 'The Last Word' is my best seller so far with 1.8 million sales. Only scored a 29 in the reviews but healthy marketing push and lots of young fans plus an expensive Gamedex showing helped no end.

[Pungee]

I've struck gold in the last hour. I'm 13 years in, $73m in the bank and my last eight games have all sold over 6 million copies each across the Playstation and PSP.

Quick question though, is there another office upgrade after the eight seater one?

[bradigor]

Game 20 flopped bigtime. I just put advertising on a racecar, then the power went and my game was destroyed during debugging.

[moosegrinder]

I called my company Murdersim Inc I haven't played it much but it seems very good.

[Rev]

plus an expensive Gamedex showing helped no end.

That's a good one. How many people can be expected at a good Gamedex? Between Golfs (2m) and Golfsim (1m) I hired some booth babes for the first time - the result was 38k visitors, compared to 31k the year before with just me stood there alone.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

I called my company Murdersim Inc

Mine is called AndrewioStudio.

[Scribblor]

Mine's called Cheesebaby, but I'm rubbish. I couldn't afford to go to Gamedex in my fourth year and I've yet to get a score over 21 on any of my games.

[myoozikk]

I had a game called the Edge & got virtual lawsuit from Tim Langdell.

[TheSlugFormerlyKnownAsNap]

Downloaded this just now, can I also push rape simulators or is it just kiddiecrap?

[Chooch]

Rape Simulator = Action Romance maybe?

[Poet]

It's amazing but far too easy.

From the iPhone games thread, as it'll just get lost there:

So, Game Dev Story 1st playthrough:

*I released 75 games and sold a total of 783,983,367 units.

*My top selling game managed to sell 59,949,387 units on a console with an installed userbase of just over 22 million. Yes you read that right. And it was on my console, the awesome Hardcorelolz PS3 beater.

*I finished with £1,155,353.4k in the bank.

*I topped out at somewhere over 9,800 fans before they aged and I never quite got them all back. Because I couldn't be bothered (see money left over!).

Also, 4 grand prizes, 14 best designs, 15 best musics, 13 Runner Ups, absolutely loads of Hall of Famers (I had 19 sequels I could pick from by the end) and one 40/40 game.

I stopped playing although you don't have to. (It says) The genre levels remain wherever you got them to for your next game, meaning maxing everything out is something to chase.

It gets far too easy about half way through but it's enormous fun. Really worth the cash.

My 2nd playthrough with my heroic new dev team "Wageslaves" will have to wait.

[peeveen]

There was a game like this on the Spectrum, called "Software House". Text only.

[Tomdominer]

How do you name your games?

[Scribblor]

There was a similar game on the C64 (but it wasn't a port of Software House on the Spectrum, as far as I know). Came free on a Commodore Format cover tape. I adored it. Happy memories of taking the buyers from Boots and John Menzies out to lunch and wooing them.

[Eighthours]

I'm only on Year 3 and my company is struggling so far. Highest review score's only 18, and out of 3 games so far released, only 1 scraped its way to 100,000 sales.

[Disgraced Toblerone]

How do you name your games?

Just before shipping it, you can change its name.

On the left of the screen.

[Teeohbee]

My company Chomé Com are doing pretty well.

Are there any new console introductions after

The gamecube/Gamebox?

.

I'm not ready to develop my own console just yet.

[Rev]

I want to develop my own console as it will have marathon racing games, Reversi clones and golf simulators. And nothing else.

[Kramer]

My biggest seller so far is 'KissyFace', a Rom Sim for the Playstation. 9 million sales.

Just flown out to Cyprus, I knew Game Dev Story would make the flight go v. quickly.

[Poet]

As someone has already mentioned in the iPhone games thread, it's all about the stories you make yourself behind the games. Alternating between blockbusters on big selling consoles and uberniche games on smaller systems, the sort you make, etc...

I started a second game today and I'm just experimenting with combinations, trying to level gametypes as much as possible up to 5 with niche products rather than go for pure commercial glory.

[Rev]

I'd like to be able to make sequels to my average games, it has to be said. It's a weird limitation not being able to make a new version of a highly profitable game just because Edge didn't like it.

[Chooch]

Just bung a 2 on the end of the name?

Or HD even!

[Teeohbee]

My "Ninja 3D" iteration on the Playstation was my biggest success. No-one bought the original on the gameboy!

[Rev]

Just bung a 2 on the end of the name?

Or HD even!

Runtime*, my series of marathon racers, has had that done to it. And Koo Zeeper* too.

But the reviewers ask for sequels. I want to give them what they want!

*The first one was struck by a power cut and was generally cack. Runtime Error didn't sell, but once its development moved onto the Playstation the series came into its own and Error was dropped.

*Animal Puzzle.