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JBlack11's Game Dev Story (iPd)
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| [September 3, 2012 05:44:49 PM]
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The game that I have chosen to review this week is the iPhone game called Game Dev Story. The basis of the game is that the player is a up and coming CEO of his or her own game design company. As CEO you are in charge of the hiring of new staff, training of existing staff, and firing of excess staff members. The player also must direct his or her company in the direction of success by controlling how their company operates, from finding ways to generate more revenue for the company to operate with, to deciding which genres of games will be produced and how they are produced.
The story line of the game is rather simplistic; it always starts the same exact way with the secretary to the company informing the player of the need to hire more staff, by means of the same personal references from her or by placing out adds. Then there is a brief time period in which the player has free time to raise money or go directly into developing their first game. After about the first year or so the player is informed of a gaming convention where there will be a new product being unveiled. This product being the next new gaming console, and without proper timing the player could end up stuck without the funds to develop a suitable game for the new console. After this the game just goes on in its normal path of game magazine reviews and news while the player attempts to keep a study flow of money and develop good games in a timely manner.
As for game play the game has a simple menu with options placed under correct subtitles so it is not difficult to find all the possibilities although discovering the benefits of each is a little more difficult. The interface of the game is crisp and although it sometimes becomes rather repetitive.
Overall it is a good game that gives one insight into the difficulties of the game design world, and is worthy of recommendation.
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JBlack11's Game Dev Story (iPd)
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Current Status: Playing
GameLog started on: Monday 3 September, 2012
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