The Game Dev

Run your own game dev company from 1980 onwards

The Game Dev - Build Your Own Gaming Company

"The Game Dev" is an immersive simulation game that allows you to start your own game development company, exploring 60 years of gaming history. From developing hit games with your team to advancing technology and competing in the market, you'll manage every aspect of your business. Create unique games across various genres, upgrade your office, and face historical challenges like market crashes. Pay a small fee to unlock deeper gameplay after 1990, with no ads to disrupt your experience.
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Users: 19,425
Rating: 3.73
(300)
Version: 0.1 (Last updated: 2020-11-25)
Creation date: 2020-10-01
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Other: full network access, control vibration

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App summary

Quit your day job and begin developing games!

From the humble beginnings of programming alone in the basement, build up your company by employing and training new workers, researching new technologies and dominating the market with hit games of your design.

History
Follow a roughly similar gaming history as the real world as famous companies release their gaming consoles, starting with the first generation 8bit consoles, play through 60 years of history and see all the technological advances, from 2D graphics all the way to augmented reality.

Game Creation
Decide how much time your workers should spend on each aspect of game development, Include features that are relevant to your chosen genre and topic and be rewarded with great reviews, high sales and happy fans.

Company Growth
Grow your company by moving out of your basement and into an office where other developers can join your ranks, upgrade your office to unlock extra abilities that will help you develop games of higher quality or maybe try your luck by creating your own gaming console.

Features
* Begin your own game development company
* Create games of 8 different genres and up to 100 unique topics
* Instruct your workers to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of consoles
* Create your own custom game engines with technologies you have researched
* Compete in Development Champions against rival companies
* Upgrade your offices
* Create sequels of your most popular hits
* Take out business loans to ensure you're never short on funds
* Multiple languages supported
* Includes four game modes, standard, No PC mode, Creative mode (can only use each topic once) and a special hard mode that features market crashes, the Y2K bug and a global recession.

The Game Dev does not contain any ads! However a small one time fee of approximately $2.66USD is required to unlock the rest of the game once you reach 1990.

User reviews

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Pros
  • Very complex mechanics and fun gameplay.
  • Creative concept and enjoyable for game development enthusiasts.
  • Ads-free experience.
  • Good time killer.
Cons
  • Limitations in the demo version, specifically the 10 in-game years restriction and payment requirements to continue.
  • Bugs and unresponsive controls.
  • Dark and unappealing user interface.
  • Payment transaction issues reported by users.
Most mentioned
  • Need for additional features and content in the full game.
  • Desire for longer demo or free version.
  • Bugs affecting gameplay and user experience.
User reviews
Decent. I just finished the demo. I wish you would be asked different questions instead of the same old "what is best for action games." I also wish the game would warn you about being only a demo. Altogether, good, but I have no idea what the full version offers vs this demo, and the demo only gives you 10 game years, 1 worker for hire, and 1 new office. I wish I knew more about the full version before I am asked to buy. Edit- it does not always respond when I tap things.
by Nerdzmasterz, 2023-04-11

The best free game dev game I ever play in mobile. Very complex mechanics and very fun IMO.
by Aguslax, 2023-03-03

Decent game,time killer for a while,but the 1990 blockage w/ payment ia ridiculous! Especially considering the fact that the game has lots of bugs and the bugs while making a game,cannot even be debugged! The expense menu in manage doesnt work too so its not worth it especially because the game is very slow and year dependant,the Speed up doesnt work properly and sometimes doesnt work even when training
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