History VideoGame / GameDevTycoon

* VideoGameGenres: There is a large selection to choose from when deciding on what kind of game you want to make. You start out with only a handful, but quickly gain more as your research progresses.

* RatedMForMoney: Played with. You can designate your games for young players, everyone or mature players. Making Mature games will give you a bonus to sales on some platforms, but a big penalty to sales on others. Invoked in that your very first mature game will get a little bonus hype simply because it is a mature game.

* [[{{TwentyPercentCooler}} 20% Cooler]]: Invoked in the sense that your next game needs to be 20% better than your last 9.0 hit to score another hit. Averted in the sense that the game uses a complex 'quality rating' score that may seem vague and arbitrary, but isn't when you look under the hood.

Available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Not currently on {{Steam}} as of now (May 2013), but up for voting on Greenlight [[http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=134714217 here]].

** The player character has figurines of [[{{SuperMeatBoy}} Meat Boy]], [[{{SuperMarioBros}} a mushroom]], [[{{CaveStory}} Balrog]], and the unnamed [[VideoGame/{{Journey}} Journey]] character in one of the later studios. Oh, also [[{{Okami}} Wolf]].

* TakeThat: Several towards [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil piracy]] as mentioned above. Also, several are taken towards [[Creator/ElectronicArts EA]] even outside of te April Fools' post; for instance, if you lose, you might be told that you were bought out by an EA {{Expy}} and have been going downhill ever since.

** Actually utilized as a creative deterrent for real pirates. If you pirated Game Dev Tycoon yourself, the pirates stealing from you in game ''cannot be stopped''. They steal from you more and more, and essentially make the game [[http://www.destructoid.com/game-dev-tycoon-turns-piracy-back-on-the-pirates-252687.phtml impossible to win]]. Pretty common to see, sadly, since the game has a staggering ''93.6'' percent piracy rate.

* ReviewsAreTheGospel: In-game example. Magazines review your games upon release, and can ''heavily'' sway it's sales for better or worse. Once you've built up a large fanbase and have a strong production team, average scores don't hurt so much - but truly awful scores will always tank profits.

* ConsoleCameo: Oh so very much. Since the timeline of the game reflects the actual history of video games, we get to see parodies [[{{Nintendo}} of]] [[{{Sega}} the]] [[{{SonyComputerEntertainment}} big]] [[{{MicrosoftStudios}} four's]] systems, as well as a rather popular [[{{IOSGames}} brand]] of mobile phone in the game's latter half.

* ReviewsAreTheGospel: Magazines review your games upon release, and can ''heavily'' sway it's sales for better or worse. Once you've built up a large fanbase and have a strong production team, average scores don't hurt so much - but truly awful scores will always tank profits.

* VideoGameGenres: There is a large selection to choose from when deciding on what kind of game you want to make. You start out with only a handful, but quickly gain more as your research progresses.

* AllegedlyFreeGame: [[{{AvertedTrope}} Averted]]. Greenheart noted the trend among some of their competitors and purposefully steered clear of it.

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''Game Dev Tycoon'' is a [[{{SimulationGame}} business sim]] made by brothers Daniel and Patrick Klug of [[http://www.greenheartgames.com Greenheart Games]], which takes players from designing games alone in their garage, all the way to [[{{ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin}} managing a big-name gaming giant]].