If you are new to Game Dev Tycoon, chances are one of your biggest challenges is figuring out is just what makes a successful game. The decisions players must make in the game, along with its increasing complexity at each level, give the feeling of truly running a game development company. For fans of the simulator genre, Game Dev Tycoon might be one of the great ones. Though Game Dev Tycoon made its first debut in 2012, iOS gamers got their first taste of the game development simulator last week, when Greenheart Games released it to the mobile platform. Still, the meta nature of Greenheart Games' solution has to be appreciated - the studio is taking a unique opportunity to confront pirates about the effect they can have on game development.Started playing Game Dev Tycoon on iOS but how to make great combos has got you stumped? Check out our complete list of great genre/topic/audience combos to ensure your game is successful.
Nintendo took a subtler approach with its SNES RPG EarthBound pirated versions of the game ramped up the number of enemies, and if a player somehow managed to make it to the final boss, their save file would be deleted.
Crysis Warhead replaced bullets with considerably less effective chickens upon detecting a crack, for example, and illicit copies of Michael Jackson: The Experience on Nintendo DS drowned out the music with incessant vuvuzela blasts. Greenheart Games isn't the first developer to adopt unorthodox anti-piracy measures. In a blog post, Patrick Klug of Greenheart Games said that the cracked version made up over 93 percent of all Game Dev Tycoon downloads, and highlighted the frustrated response of players who were experiencing the struggles of piracy first-hand. A message informs the player that people are choosing to pirate their studio's game, and profits will drop until the virtual company eventually goes bankrupt.
Greenheart Games released a "cracked" version of its Game Dev Tycoon to illegal downloading sites, but there's a sting in the tail - anyone attempting to play the game development simulation beyond a few hours will get a subtle hint about the consequences of their actions. As major game publishers push overbearing copy protection that frustrates legitimate players, an indie studio has taken a novel approach to the difficult problem of piracy.
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