Dear Game Dev Tycoon Fans,

Here's a surprise, there’s a new edition of Game Dev Tycoon available on Netflix!

Truth be told, we never dreamed that we’d be able to make an update to Game Dev Tycoon as we’ve been flat out working on our second PC game but then an opportunity with Netflix came along and together with the Game Dev Tycoon mobile team we made it work.

The new edition is exclusive to Netflix for the time being - we wouldn’t have been able to make this happen at all otherwise.

If you have a Netflix subscription, you can download it and play it with no extra fees - it's already included with your Netflix membership. 🕹️📱

It's the same Game Dev Tycoon you know and love with a few added features:

As you play through gaming history, you get access to licensed topics that allow you to develop games based on parodies of your favorite movies and TV shows. Each of these topics comes with custom story events and special rewards when you develop a great game.

The story events on licensed topics range from pushy executives trying to hurry your production, to team members quizzing you to see if you really understand the license, to events inspired by historical happenings. You could find yourself making a really bad “G.T. - The Galactic Traveler” game and have your cartridges buried in the desert! Or avoid fate, change history, and have it be one of the best games ever made. Imagine that!

Each licensed topic can earn you a special reward if you deliver a good game - this can open up new strategies to gain fans, get research points or even unlock new engine parts.

Another new feature is content creators. As the game progresses, you are able to promote your games with content creators and gain more fans and sales. Find out which genres and topics fit best with each audience and experiment to find out preferences.

To play Game Dev Tycoon NETFLIX, you can use your Netflix account on your mobile device - it’s already included with your Netflix membership.

With this little surprise out of the way, we are going back to focusing on finishing our next PC game. Most of you have probably heard of it already. Tavern Keeper 🍻 is a fun, fantasy tavern management sim and it’s coming out later this year on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/436780/Tavern_Keeper/

Thank you for your continued support and excitement for Game Dev Tycoon over the years - without you none of this would have happened.

Patrick
and The Greenheart Games 💚 team

Happy New Year, everyone!

Game Dev Tycoon is taking part in the Steam Capitalism and Economy Fest with a 60% discount until January 15th! What a fitting event for a game like Game Dev Tycoon! 😁

In Game Dev Tycoon, your success isn’t measured only by how many 10/10 games you make - and All Games isn’t making this task easy - but also by your ability to keep your development company going and growing. The biggest challenge is avoiding bankruptcy, which is hard enough without the ultra-hard Pirate Mode, so we thought of sharing a few tips to make your playthrough a little easier!

• Save up a good amount of money before moving on to level 2. This can help you experiment with topics a little and gain more experience.
  
• Medium games work best if you have a team of 3, so your aim should be to get to 2 additional workers. Be mindful when you grow your team since staff members are expensive!
  
• Fans are important, and to get more fans you should try to take publishing deals. This will help you later on when you want to successfully self-publish games.
  
• Be very careful what publishing contracts you take. Publishers often suggest not-so-ideal combinations which can lead to bad scores and you having to pay a penalty.
  
• If you have trouble thinking of what audience is better for what platforms, just think of the best-selling games of the real-world equivalent console and what audience these games target.

Do you have any tips to share? Let us know in the comments!

We also took this opportunity to share more details about the money-making aspect of our second game Tavern Keeper, coming out later this year! You can check the article here.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/436780/Tavern_Keeper/

Thank you!
The Greenheart Games Team 💚

Next week, it will be ten whole years since Game Dev Tycoon came out on Steam!

Never would we have dreamed that our first little game would be played by so many people across the globe, that it would be crowd-translated to 17 languages, that it would have so many incredible mods, or that you could play it on mobile and Switch too.

THANK YOU ALL 💚 for making this possible!

To celebrate the occasion we are doing an 80% anniversary sale for a few days - our biggest discount to date!

While we celebrate 10 years, by fortunate coincidence, we can also celebrate that our second game, Tavern Keeper 🍻, has - as of a day ago - a Steam page:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/436780/Tavern_Keeper/

If you want to follow our journey with Game #2, please check it out. It will be a fun ride!

As for Game Dev Tycoon, we’ll be back.

Patrick 💚

Fixed start script for Linux:
Instead of setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable it gets appended.

We've released a small bug fix where the staff welcome training was not available after importing from a mobile save game.

We've released a small update which fixes subscribing to our newsletter from within the game.

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We've released a small update fixing a few minor cross-platform bugs, as well as aiming to restore game knowledge (and some save slots) that were sometimes lost for some players when upgrading to 1.8.x

This update also introduces a workaround for a known issue where modders on Windows are unable to update their workshop mods. We've described the issue and a new workaround for it here.

We expect this will be the last update for a while. Hopefully things will run smoothly now.

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PS: Consider following our developer page.

We have just reverted all Windows users to the old version of node-webkit (the underlying tech making the game run on PC). Sadly our latest upgrade to a newer version caused game hints and achievements to not load (nor save correctly).

The good news is that hints and achievements previously gained should now load again so there should not be any data loss.

Unfortunately a proper fix is anything but simple as the issue seems outside our control for now but we will investigate any possible fixes. Other than the fact that we are now again running on an older version and thus miss out on the nicer text rendering, there is no loss of features in this version on Windows. It still comes with all the new features like save-sharing.

We have left the Mac version on the newer version as the old version has significant performance and display-compatibility issues.

Hopefully we'll have another update to address this soon.

Bugfix: Migrating save files with custom consoles from mobile version did throw the error "InvalidStateError: Failed to execute 'drawImage'".