Complete Guide[outdated]: Topics, Audiences, Development etc.

Overview

A Guide for all you need to know: Topic – Target Audience – Genre – Platform Combinations, Game Development focuses, Achievements and so on.All tables are taken from http://gamedevtycoon.wikia.com/wiki/Game_Development_Based_on_Experience/1.4.3.This guide was created with Version 1.4.3: Values may have changed!

Preliminary remark

This guide is based on this wiki guide:
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For more information (more than just the tables) and nice coloring, please visit the given link.
I take no credit for the contents, only for porting its contents to the steam guide system.
Thank you.

Genre Combinations Airplane-Movies

Genre Combinations Music-Zombies

Platform-Genre Combinations

Development: Single-Genre

+++ = very important (1.0)
++ = quite important (>= 0.9)

• You should try to get 40% or higher focus from at least two of these sliders for best results, and not get 20% or lower from any of them.

~ = not very important (>= 0.8)

• These sliders can be set to anything.

−− = not important (>= 0.7)
−−− = not at all important (>= 0.6)

• You should not get 40% or higher focus from any of these sliders.

T/R: Tech/Design balance (ratio of the points)

Development Multi-genre

Engine Research

Achievements & Easter Eggs

In order to unlock these achievements, a corresponding Poster has to be hanging in your garage/buro (random with every playthrough). For example: Pong-Poster in the garage.

Tips

Some tips i read on the GameDevTycoon wiki or found out myself. Go to the Success Guide[gamedevtycoon.wikia.com] if you want even more tips and/or love long texts…

• It’s best to release a 9+ title right before moving into your first office. This guarantees enough money for new employees, research etc. (with that money you should immediately hire 4 employees)
• It’s easier to stick to one genre, the crowds don’t mind
• After creating your first engine don’t research ’till your first office
• Sync the vacation of your employees around the 8th month
• After you hire new employees, immediately train them with welcome training. Do contract work or research until your team recovered. Your first game with a new team should be a small one, because it will be worse than normal
• Try to train your employees after each game (once in their weakest and once in research) to make better games and always have enough RP
• When developing medium or bigger games, start around the 4th month, to gain the cheap Hype by the game conventions in month 6.
• Try to make better games by training your staff and not additional features. Only use features when your games don’t seem to becoming better (= as good as before). Upgrade your engine from time to time
• Since the game calculates your game score by your previous developed games (design and tech points), don’t make too big jumps in ‘numbers’ from game to game – you would be making your life even harder
• Bug: If you are doing contract work – when your team stops generating bubbles and the last ones are still in the air, you can quickly go into the menu and accept the same contract again. With this you don’t get the money, but you have gained research points from doing something. Use this method/bug to generate extra research points when you need them (=> when you want to pass time – e.g. till the 4th month for a new game – but you don’t have enough RP for training)
• When self-publishing bigger games, market a medium (later large) campaign with the beginning of the 2nd stage and then the cheaper marketing options from time to time