Announcing first expansion for Game Dev Tycoon
A couple of days ago we announced that Game Dev Tycoon is now listed on Steam Greenlight and will come to Mac, Linux and Windows. Today, it is time to unveil the next exciting news. Introducing our first upcoming expansion for Game Dev Tycoon:
In Game Dev Tycoon you grew from a one-man start-up in a garage to a big game company creating AAA games. In Game Dev Tycoon: Shareholders’ Edition you take the journey further and become one of the biggest players in the industry. While in the original game you tried to maximize your fans and become a fan-favorite, Shareholders’ Edition takes a more realistic approach: instead of caring for your fans you will have to make your shareholders happy.
Below is a sneak peek of some of the exciting features in Shareholders’ Edition:
Reboot franchises with a focus on profit instead of fun!
(make sure to strategically remove features which were taken for granted before and release them as paid DLC instead!)
Deal with press enquiries!
(Gamers are known to be gullible so polish the truth a bit)
Be the bad guy and rip off tiny little indie developers!
(why play fair when you have so much capital?)
Develop your own App Store!
(make sure to focus on App quantity to get maximum praise from mainstream journalists and maximum happiness from your shareholders.)
These are just some of the features in the new expansion.
– Greenheart Games ♥
– 1st April 2013
Brilliant! 😀
Also, the Windows RT release of the original game has been submitted to the store. 4-1-13
Very good one! Especially the first screenshot 😉
Trolling EA with the always-on requirement for city management game. Cool
hahaha nice, can’t “wait” for it.
Will this be an in app purchase then?
I am sure it is a joke…1st April 😉
hummm, dose this sound like something a certain major game producer did with there city simulator, or is it just me 🙂
this is so funny i almost wish it weren’t april 1st…
i’m sosad
when this expansion pack getiing released
Oh sh…
Poor simcity. 😀
Very good 😀
haha, well played.
seriously though, where is the rt version?
Can I get the new game free if you bought the older one?
I just wished that this was true! April fools! 😀
Oh please oh please make this an Easter egg via the next patch 🙂
Well played Greenheart Games
But, wouldn’t this be so cool if this wasnt a April Fool’s Joke and it was real.
Still, something to laugh about
You should add more to the game, what engine did you make this in?
You gotta make this for real! We want this!
This needs to be real expansion! =)
Haha you guys are so cheeky with your sim tower ref.
Damn you guys XD
I really want an expansion! Been playing the original since I first got Windows 8, and I’d even love this expansion! lol 🙂
Well done though, hehe, funny 🙂
Too bad this was posted on April 1st…
But seriously: If you ever make an Expansion or DLC, make it free for those who already bought the game. Thanks.
I hate to break it to , but, you buy dlc and expansions 🙂 instead of trying to pressure green heart into giving free content, buy to support them.
Obviously a joke, but think it would be really cool to have 😀
You should seriously make this!
Awesome. This is exactly some of those things why I don’t want to play any new games anymore since a couple of years. Companies find it difficult to sell games that work, and work immediately.
Sometimes I still play older games such as rollercoaster tycoon and gta san andreas, which are very easy to run. Insert disk, install, play, that’s it. Compared to what you have to go trough for legal games nowadays, it sounds about as simple as pirate instructions: burn/mount, install, crack, enjoy. Instead, now you have to insert disk, type serial, install steam, register some stupid accounts, confirm and log in, download the game, have steam running and an internet connection, and then finally play! And that’s not all, because the game is initially full of bugs for which patches are released afterwards.
I actually purchased grand theft auto IV and never played it because I got so sick and tired of the hassle to get it to work. After that I also purchased “Serious Sam HD the second encounter”, once again a crazy amount of stuff to do to get it to work. I played it because I was really looking forward to it so I didn’t give up, but it was the last game I ever purchased.
To be honest I don’t know how your game works but the “new gaming” doesn’t appeal to me at all. I don’t want background applications, registered accounts, patches etc. I just want games that work, and work immediately. That appears to be too much to ask; no new games for me then. Oh well, good games never get old.
You don’t need to be online to play. You can start steam in offline mode 😛 and I’m sure logging into steam takes less time than illegally cracking a game. Oh, and you aren’t a douche bag for pirating! Companies are having a hard time? Ooh, lets make em bankrupt! Good logic right there don’t you think? That’s why you buy on steam, not crack and worry about CD which won’t be supported in a year as they are moving toward using memory sticks.
Why do you accuse me of pirating games? All of the games that I still play sometimes nowadays are games that I purchased, except GTA London because the producer released their oldest GTA games for free some time ago.
So basically you did the ‘rip of’ thing. Wow you are probably very very proud of yourself
I want this expansion to make, it is very true about curent situation in game industry so make it finaly real 🙂
This series is so awesome, the ugly truths it works in.
Hey guys!
Sorry, I don’t have a credit card, or a bank account. I just have money, in cash. I’m from Brazil. How I can buy the game?
I loved it. And the price is really not expansive. A just price for my financial reality.
Thanks for your atention.
Best regards,
Jordy Zaikoski Gularte.
(Sorry about my poor English. I don’t speak English).
(For PayPal I nedd a Credit Card or a Bank Account).
It’s a shame this is an April Fool’s joke. I’ve been playing Game Dev Tycoon non-stop since I bought it – and I would love to see these features!
In general, my only bit of feedback would be to see more random events and opportunities to strategically choose between making more money or earning more fans. At the end of the day, I feel like that’s the philosophical battle facing almost any creative business.
Give us more! We’ll pay!
I bought the game, and it’s brilliant, but at very late in the game it’s get very very laggy, will you guys fix it with a future update? Also I want to try out the pirated version just for kicks.
Will this be available for download on the internet aswell or just Steam?
… You can only currently buy it in the internet. I have no clue what crack you are on. And, DLC is fake
Goddamnit just realized it was an April Fools’ Joke.
i would pay money for this really i want to be a filthy rich EA/Zynga arse please i beg make this april fools joke real i will but it
Interesting to try and make a joke about someone making a clone of a game with minimal changes.
When, you know, Game Dev Story…
Yeah.
Briliant! Sadky, it’s a april fool’s joke =/ Have plans to release a expansion soon guys? I’ve realy enjoyed the game and wat much more 😀
This suits the Indie company quite nicely!
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Will there be multi-platform games?
Too bad it seems to be an April Fools’ Joke… But the additional features could have been really fun. Maybe consider it for a real release/update for the game ?
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i love the 2nd image as it is clearly about sim city
This is one of those obvious April Fool jokes that you’re sad about because you’d like at least some of it to be true…
You should do a reseach where you can see , how will be your game for the graphics to see the evolution to 2D v1 at 2D v4 or the same with 3D
I hope you also add more topics and genres, i need a first person shooter.
also a way for us to be able to upgrade our pcs and security different relaxing places to decrease the amount of energy a person uses so they dont have to go on vacation as frequently. i know some features are available through the story but make it so we are in control of it, if we got the money we can go to a menue and buy it!
also menu screen to look at previous messages, and finances for the month year day etc. away to slow down time it seems like game consuls are announced and 2 seconds later the consul is released.
Lol I was completely taken in by this one, well played greenheart! ;D
I’d actually buy this, it would be fun to simulate being EA
haha… This exp. pack is too awesome to be true… xD Anyway I’m your fan. Make another exp. pack title: Project Manager edition. XD That would be awesome too.
how much will this dlc cost?
please please PLEASE make this I want ea company
Damnit I want this to be real so bad!
Good day! Do you know if they make any plugins to protect against
hackers? I’m kinda paranoid about losing everything I’ve worked hard on.
Any suggestions?
Even though I know that this was an April Fool’s Joke. A part of me wouldn’t mind seeing something similar to this as a small DLC for maybe $1-$5.
(Cause while I can understand the bros. not wanting to become more like the corporate machine and stay fan-friendly Indie Devs. With such a fanbase that they already have, their funds would really go up if they did make and release a DLC. I’ve delved into completely free game development a few times in the past, and holy sh!t is it a process. Even with RPG Maker VX it takes me a few weeks to spit and polish a mini-RPG.)
And yet i cant wait fo EA to know about it and then EA sues the game dev tycoon company thats going to be fun and no more game dev tycoon