GamersGoMakers

its actually a fun game development indie game But as other reviews have stated there are some minor bugs and new features will never be implemeted I have to recommend this I had a lot of fun back when games like game dev tycoon and mad games tycoon and gamersgomakers I recommend all three titles and you wont go wrong in having a pretty good game studio simulation collection good times havent really kept up with the scene so dont know if any more better newer ones are out there but this is solid despite its flaws and downsides

The game is a rather poor ripoff of Game Dev Tycoon (including nearly the same categories and inputs for good games).

The developer makes a habit of criticizing people on his forums when they have a question or a criticism of the game. Example, the game only can be run when Windows is in 100 percent scaling mode, no other mode. One poor guy didn't know what that meant and asked, and the developer responded two separate times how he couldn't make it clearer (and it was about as clear as mud to me, I had to look it up). Then finally posted "Sigh" and a link on how to fix it.

That's just one example.

Anyway, like I said: a poorly made ripoff of a great game. Not recommended at all.

This game is a complete disaster... I can't even begin to list everything. But mainly, it is slow and repetitive, and during gameplay, you have no idea what to work towards or even if there is anything at all to work towards. Seems to me like the entire game is all the same, just with different text now and then.

Dont buy it. The developers had a falling out and wont be working on fixing the gamebreaking bugs. was a fun game til the last update they did caused bad bugs.

The game was growing very fast, and becoming one of the best, but they gave up. If they had pushed on, they'd have made it big. I almost tried to install the game and pick up their game assets & try and finish/polish some stuff for them, but I quickly realized that'd be almost impossible. I really wish someone could finish it.

Don't buy this game, they gave up on it, so should you.

This game when it first came out had alot of promised and I was quite excited for it. But as time went on there was little to no positive interaction with the community and the developer abandoned this game. Furthermore recent events have made it clear that the developer just sees the game as free money and doesn't really expect to do much of anything and get reward out of it.

I used to enjoy this game when I bought it, now it's been about 3-4 months since I've played it.
In about 6+ months there is NO patches to fix bugs, and these bugs can lead up to crash and game not saving.

As stated 6+ months ago and still no patch, I would not recommend buying this title.
Current state, even though it is a full release, it is not even in a polished beta stage.

Project is dead.

DO NOT BUY!

This game is a fucking ripoff of other and better games ... Also the game is really bugged and not at all polished, and it seems to have been abandoned so don't waste your money on this shit go check out Game Dev Tycoon instead, coz it's the EXACT SAME FUCKING GAME but not shitty as fucking fuck ... fuck!

Don't play, even for free!

It's seriously a bug fest. Half of the time I don't get paid by publishers, the other half my game projects simply stop at 100% and I can't release and have to quit the project and lose money. Can't make it past 4 years due to all the bugs.

Seems like it's a "done" product as well so no more patches.

Don't buy.

I don't know if this is still "Early Access" but NO UPDATES have been done in well over a year (11/2014). The developer is MIA and the game is full of bugs.

Seems to me to be more bare bones and grindy than it's counterpart, Game Dev Tycoon. Despite this, the mechanics and systems are delightfully in-depth, while still being easy to use, and the learning curve is rather nice. The price of things could use some re-balancing, and the cover art options does wear thin at times, but still fun. Would recommend if you like business or game-making sims.

Very addictive game. I would say I like it as much if not better than Game Dev Tycoon. Pretty much the same just with a diff look and slight diff feel to it. It is still in EA so if your uncomfortable with that just wait till it hits beta or something. Its still a very fun game atm not even finished. I just hit $1.2b with my company "Next" and all I sell are adventures, war strategies and consoles. This is my third play threw so far and best as well. I finaly know what im doing lol. The trick is to focus on 2-3 diff game types, ex: adventure, strat and rpg or something then just juggle them around so you dont build the same type back to back and youll make plenty of money this way.

I was curious of the other Game Management games out there. I started out with Game Dev Tycoon (Throughly enjoyed that game with 200+ hours), then I tried Game Tycoon (Which is absolutely dreadful, don't waste your time and money. You're better off wiping your butt than spending it), I tried GameBiz 3 (Enjoyed it for its gameplay but hated it for its extremely poor UI and sales restrictions), and I played Game Dev Story on iOS (Which is great for on the go. I enjoyed it for its simulation, but not very much for its management and lack of interaction). So one day, I came upon this game and I decided to give this a shot.

Pros:
-Very detailed! I like how they really invested into what goes into a game; such as system design, content design, sound design, game writing, network, ect. The list goes on.
-Game Reviews appear like actual reviews.
-You can create your own Casing! This is honestly my favorite part of the game, hands down. None of the other Game Dev games ever did this!
-Competitors; more specifically they affect you in so many factors such as affecting your game releases, console releases, ect. You can even buy them out and have them develop their own projects but still receive an income or you can have them help you out in your own projects!
-More indef development. You can have voice actors, stunt devils, and so much more!
-This game has a lot of humor! The names of the actors are reversed in such a great fashon!
-Sales Charts are detailed and give you great statistics.
-You can choose your starting location! With each starting location, you get seperate perks!
-You can choose your own price! This should already be a given to any GD game!

Cons:
-If you do poorly in the game, the reviews will just tell you "You should focus on so and so more," It doesn't give you a plus minus system like GDT does. What makes it even worse, is that when you develop another game of the same genre, it doesn't tell you what was something you weren't suppose to do, you have to pull up another menu to do so.
-The UI is very much confusing and requires so many menus to open for information. If you wish to replace another employee you have to basically write down the levels of each employee and what they are good in. It should automatically tell you this instead of menu hopping.
-Graphics are very uninspiring. Everything is basically a still image.
-The notifications takes up about 1/5th of your screen. It doesn't need to be that big. Whats worse is that if you wish to look a previous notification, you are bombarded by what other notifications of irrevent games from irrevent companies. You also can't go back very far in time.
-Upgrading and researching are such a time consuming waste. You can't unlock the publishing office until the early 2010s. To make this seem even more terrible, you can't unlock your hardware lab until the 7th gen (X360, PS3, WII), around 2004-7ish. You can't make a retro console. The game won't even tell you if you can even research more technology due to the bombardment of the nofications.
-Buying new offices are basically the same as the last bullet point, half of the stuff you wish to create are locked off until the later 2000s.
-Early game start is virtually impossible unless you know what you're doing. There are no wiki's or any source of information from what I looked on the internet about what makes a game good. I had to revert to the steam forums for an JPG about what you invest your points in.
-Custom Consoles sell COMPLETELY POORLY! It took until my forth console to even get to a 10% marketshare whereas my competitors are at 25-35%. Which also makes no sense, the marketshare exceeds 100%, how is that even possible!?
-By later game, around 2000s, it slows down tremendously and begins to feel repeatitive.
-Genre and game selection is confusing. You can pick an Action Genre but you have to pick a sub-Genre. EX: Action-Beat em Up. Then you create a story with it. Then those stories are locked for the genre specific game. If I wanted to create a Military Action RPG, I can't. I can only use Military FPS.
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Final Verdict: Better than Game Tycoon at least!

I do absolutely love the details this game gives and the constant updates from the developers! This game has a LOT of potiental, but it won't reach it's peak unless it continues to receive patches and updates. The UI DEFINITELY needs some work. Although points of the game felt repetitve, I never really felt bored. I was interested by how the market works and the constant interaction you're doing. The case designing is by far the most innovative feature of this game; its what should be EXPECTED in a Game Dev game. But it needs to be more interesting, a bit more dynamic!!

I'd recommend giving this game, at the very least, a shot or a try. It's well worth its price point of $10 USD. It's not a game for everybody, but you may find it very enjoying.

This game is better than Game Dev Tycoon. You can buy studios, choose what the studio can do and more.
What's the future of it? I can imagine more!

The development team can make something more in future? Like 3D World, game preview... Think: You're making a funny game and after would can see someone crazy with funny face hahaha :)

A more complex version of Game Dev Tycoon which is a plus but the user interface is too clunky. It lacks polish and ease of use.

While many compare this game to Game Dev Tycoon, I think it is completely unlike GDT, with only the graphics being comparable.

GamersGoMakers has a wide array of stats that you can change up in a game to make the difference between a hit and a miss for your game. While each genre has a few "needs" that require more than average attention, it's fun seeing the difference in points makes. For example, when I focus on Level Design for my racing game, the review compliments the good track design, and when I don't it criticizes the track design.

Your company has a huge effect on the game industry as well. When you release a very good game on a system when you have a lot of fans, you'll see a noticeable market share increase on the system you released the game on. For example, the relatively unpopular Ninfendo Gamecube actually outsold the Playsensation handily by my release of "Tatris" my totally awesome and original game.

Overall, it's a lot more difficult to have a easy "formula" like GDT had (heck, it even has a calculator). If you are interested in this game, be prepared for failure, because this game is as harsh as the real game industry!

I bought GamersGoMakers based on reviews stating that it is a more complex Game Dev Tycoon.

In my experience, the only added complexity is in the reviewable detail like spreadsheets showing current trends and company history.

Everything else, however, feels less polished than Game Dev Tycoon (which I also found to be a far from ideal game).

First, the user interface is sometimes confusing. Does that green checkmark mean I need to click it to activate it? Or does that mean it is activated? Oh, okay, that means it *is* activated. On other dialogues and interfaces -- oops, wait, come back! I didn't mean to skip that question or step! You're also forced into full-screen. For casual simulation games like this, I'd prefer to use a small window while I do other things. With GamersGoMakers, you can have full-screen or windowed mode. Both will take up your entire screen (in my case, on a 2560x1600 screen). Yes, there is a lot of information in the interface, but there are far more complex data-driven presentation games out there that I can play at something other than full screen, if I wish.

Second, the game play itself is essentially the same as every other iteration of this genre. Research tech, train skills, name a game, select genre and focuses for game, click button and watch while the money rolls in (or doesn't). Repeat and rinse until you're bankrupt (no way to take bank or private loans or anything else - when you go negative for a year, you're toast) or until you have enough money to invest in a bigger building and more employees and advertising campaigns.

Third, and what kind of drove me nuts over everything else, are the incoherencies. The game starts in 1980 and can be started in the 80s, 90s, or 00s, if you prefer. In the beginning, the only graphical technology which exists is "text based". You'll see something like the current 1980 trend being "race simulators". So, you might create a race simulator using the currently available technology. The game will bomb -- probably because you didn't invest enough focus in graphics (as per the game reviews for your product). You know, those sexy text based graphics that really drive racing simulators of 1980.

If you play through production of a few games (which feels like it is always based around entirely random generation of events and desires, no matter how senseless) you'll reach the point where an ESRB-style ratings board appears. Only, not so much like the ESRB, because while the ESRB has no legal authority and are a voluntary industry ratings system, the ratings service in the game apparently has the capability to legally ban a game in America, for "excessive language".

That's right. A game developed in the US for a US market is banned in the US by a ratings service for its language. For those unfamiliar with the first amendment and repeated court decisions over the decades upholding it, let's put this into context: Only two games have ever been "banned" in the US. Ever. One was an adult title in 2005 which, due to an under age (17yrs) model being revealed, was taken off the market and the other was an arcade game which was "banned" due to defective peripheral parts which were potentially dangers and therefore recalled for safety issues. In other words, neither was technically "banned" and certainly no game has ever been banned due to language or violence or legal representations of sexual situations. While this may seem like a small thing, it's an annoyance and representative of countless incoherencies in a title which otherwise asserts itself to be an engaging simulation of an industry, sectioned into characteristic decades.

Over all, it is not a terrible game. I just can not suggest it over Game Dev Tycoon at a full $10. Frankly, I can't suggest Game Dev Tycoon at its full price, either. Both are very lack-luster games; GamersGoMakers more so. I would really like to see someone put in the work to produce a high quality game of this genre and subject, with the depth and complexity and coherence that it really deserves. As it is, every one of these that I've encountered are little more than a cheap mobile phone quality distraction.

I saw a company named 'LucasFarts'............. 11/10 "A must play"

No, but seriously this is a pretty good game and is definitely not a rip-off of GDT. This game has much more content and has a longer learning curve. It's still rough around the edges for instance the UI, but hopefully the dev's will improve it later on. Beware there are still bugs so if you think you can't handle a not fully polished game with a few problems, hold onto GDT until a few more updates.

But seriously, 'LucasFarts' didn't persuade you to buy this game already?

I’m simply going to talk about this game, instead of talking about how it’s a carbon copy another game called “Game Dev Tycoon”. It’s not, but let’s concentrate on the game at hand.

GamersGoMakers (not a great name, I know) is made by a small indie development team, and graphically the game is simple and cartoonish, which is to be pretty expected. The graphics do the job enough, though, because pretty graphics are not the most important thing about management sims, which is basically what this is.

You can start your game from several points through history, but I think you’ll get the most out of it by starting back in 1980. You begin your career as game developer as a one-man/woman team. Over time – with success and no small amount of luck – you’ll expand into larger premises which enable you to open specialist departments, such as a design office, a development office, a sound studio, etc. You’ll have to hire staff to fill the positions, who help you to make your games. Your staff – yourself included – have skill stats, which you can improve by doing training as well as through the act of making games. The higher their stats, the higher their wage, but if you want to be churning out those big AAA games then you’re going to need the best you can find. Don’t be afraid to fire people so you can hire better staff members as they become available.

You can choose from an increasingly wide range of game genres, such as action, adventure, strategy, etc, most of which also expand into other options, such as ‘action, shoot-em-up’. You need to decide where to place your emphasis with the game, such as graphics, game play, AI, sound, etc. For example, shoot-em-up actions don’t require a lot of emphasis on writing, but game play and graphics are very important. At first, you’ll be making games with the wrong emphasis in the wrong areas, but as you gain experience and can hire a producer, you’ll have a better idea of what to do.

After you’ve finished your masterpiece, you release it to the world, where you’ll get your all-important review. You’ll get rated out of 10 for your game play, graphics, writing, etc. The higher the better, of course. But you’ll also get a percentage score out of 100. Anything over probably 70% you can consider you did okay; anything under is a swing and a miss. Lastly, you’ll get some comments on the pro’s and con’s of your game. A few dud games in a row early on in your career can send you bankrupt very quickly. Consequently, the early years are the most difficult and precarious.

As of the current version – which I believe is version 1.1 – there are definitely bugs in the game. But it’s not just bugs that are the problem. It’s not very intuitive or informative in telling you what areas you need to be emphasising and what areas are unimportant, even after you’ve made games in that genre a few times. For a comparison, “Game Dev Tycoon” reveals more and more information on a genre the more times you do it, until you have a very good idea indeed on what you need to do. It not only tells you what’s important, but what’s not important. GamersGoMakers doesn’t make that clear enough in my opinion.

The good thing, though, is that the developers have expressed a desire to release patches and even DLC’s so I’m hopeful that the worst of the problems will get ironed out.

If you’re like me and played “Game Dev Tycoon”, liked it a lot but also found it a little frustrating because of how limited it was, then you’ll like this. If you’ve never played “Game Dev Tycoon” but are interested in the idea of becoming a game developer bigwig then you’ll like this game. It’s not perfect but patches will certainly go some way towards this, and even as it is, I find it a lot of fun and rather addictive!

For someone who plays Tycoon games a lot and has also played Game Dev Tycoon, which this game is kind of like, this is really difficult, to master this game is challenging, but it sure is fun to play, it also makes you think, what would happen if this game and Game Dev Tycoon mixed up together to make one game?
But this game is really great, though it does act very familliar to Game Dev Tycoon.

People who don't own Game Dev Tycoon = 9/10
People who do own Game Dev Tycoon = 7/10 (Buy on a sale if anything)