I’ve done best when I held off on this until I had 6 developers and Large games. You gain the ability to research dual genres at some point in the basic office. PS3: RPG: Everyone: Medieval, Fantasy, SciFi, Dungeon, Mystery, Martial Arts, Spy, Detective, Cyberpunk, School, Fashion, Post Apoc, Alt Hist, Vampire, Werewolf, Aliens, Wild West.PS3: Action: Everyone: Sports, Military, Medieval, Space, Fantasy, SciFi, Airplane, Dungeon, Martial Arts, Horror, Ninja, Spy, Cyberpunk, UFO, Time Travel, Hunting, Prison, Music, Rhythm, Superheroes, Post Apoc, Alt Hist, Vampire, Werewolf, Aliens.mBox360: Casual: Sports, Racing, Airplane, Martial Arts, comedy, Movies, Vocabulary, Fashion, Music, Rhythm, Dance.GS: youth: Strategy: Medieval, Space, fantasy, scifi, airplane, transport, UFO, evolution, city, school.GS: Youth Sim: Sport, Space, Racing, Sci-Fi, Airplane, Martial Arts, Transport, Movies, Evolution, Life, Virtual Pet, Hunting, City, School, Fashion, Music, Rhythm.TES/SuperTES: Youth: Action: See Gameling. Gameling: Youth: Casual: Sports, Racing, Airplane, Martial Arts, comedy, Movies, Fashion, Music, Rhythm.Gameling: Youth: Action: Sports, Medieval, Space, Fantasy, SciFi, Airplane, Martial Arts, Ninja, Spy, UFO, Time Travel, Hunting, Music, Rhythm, Superheroes.Gameling: Youth: RPG: Medieval, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Mystery, Martial Arts, Spy, Detective, School, Fashion.The wiki has a good list, but this is filtered by age level and console. I haven’t included every console since I’ve mostly focused on the ones with high market share. Here’s the quick and easy list of consoles and combos. Anything else is fair game as long as it the combination works with the chosen genre. Games target to Everyone and Mature audiences only have one bad topic: Virtual Pet. For any youth oriented game, avoid the following: Military, Dungeon, History, Horror, Business, Romance, Cyberpunk, Hospital, Vocabulary, Law, Game Dev, Startups, Hacking, Government, Prison, Surgery, Post Apoc, Alt Hist, Vampire, Werewolf, Aliens, Wild West, Dance There are a number of topics that non-starters and take a penalty. The downside to targeting the youth market is that they’re picky. mBox: youth: Action 1.07, Adventure 1.015.Playsystem: youth: RPG 1.07, Action 1.05.Gameling: youth: RPG 1.01, Action 1, Casual 1.Before I dug into the numbers, I saw success with youth oriented RPGs. In the Gameling case it’s 1.01 for RPG and 1 for both Action and Casual. Most of the combos I post below will target the highest modifier Genre for the given system. This starts to shift in the XBox 360 era, though PCs always favor Mature. Target your early games at the youth market, and you’ll do well. There’s a penalty assigned for the other categories. I’ll use the Gameling as my example, because it’s where I have been able to make most of my early profits to propel my company from the garage into an office park. There’s also the target audience and the device itself. There’s more to it than that combo, though. One of the first things a player learns in-game is that some combinations of Genres and Topics are considered “Great combos” and they will sell well. If you want to play the game without the constant fear of bankruptcy, or if you’ve stalled out around the PlayStation (Playsystem) era, here are some tips! If you want to make a Mature Virtual Pet Adventure for the Gameboy–err, Gameling–go right ahead. It’s not an easy game at first, but through some trial and error, and then reading the raw data values on the wiki, I’ve built myself a little cheatsheet to ensure that I’m making games with the maximum potential. So I spent the $8 and downloaded the game. And it worked on this humble writer/gamer. As a marketing move, it was pure genius: every tech website and blog on the internet covered it. In the torrented version of the game, the number of sales lost to piracy starts to increase until the in-game studio can’t turn a profit. Like most everyone else that reads technology websites, I saw the articles this week about how the two brothers that developed Game Dev Tycoon put up a torrent of their own game. It will still keep you from going bankrupt, and maybe it will help point you in the right direction. Note (March 11, 2014): Sometime after release and after the above post was written, the game was patched and the advice offered here lost some of its effectiveness.
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