• · Welcome to Game Dev Studio, an unique experience in this game genre.

This guide will provide you some basic tips that may be confusing to you at start, but will totally help you throughout your gametime and experience. I hope you all like this guide and find it helpful!

If you still got any doubts after reading it, I'll answer everything I can.

• Here we are, building your very own first office in Story mode. The game itself will show you how to start building, and the controls are shown on screen.
  
  
  
  
  My first tip is to max out your first office. It won't be that expensive at first, and you'll easy recover that money in your first game. So... let's max this out by expanding our office!
  
  
  
  Nice!
  
  
• The first thing you should do is build your own restroom
  .I recommend a 2x2 space in a corner of your building. Toilets can just be used by 14 employees, so if you have an office with more than those you'll have to build another one. Anyways, it doesnt matter because we'll just put 12 workplaces for 12 different employees in this office.
  
  
• Build two walls from the bathroom, and place the toilet and sink facing where there isn't a wall like shown in this photo.
  
  
  
  
  This way, you can easily build any restroom, and it will never be trouble for you. Close the restroom with a wall and a door and you have already built the best space a human ever needs.
  
  
• Now, let's build a water dispenser, a must have in your office!
  
  Your employees can work without food, because food in the game just gives a boost and it's not obligatory to provide them any.
  
  It may be harsh and they may feel like slaves, but remember, this is your first office and sacrifices must be done, so don't feel bad, lol. The best place for a water dispenser in this office is like shown in the next photo.
  
  
  
  
  Have in mind that Water dispensers have enough water for 12 employees, plus your toilet sinks supply another 2 employees, don't worry about them being thirsty here, they won't.
  
  
• Our office now satisfies the primary needs of our employees. Now, let's give them a place to work.
  
  The best thing you should do is fill every space you can with workplaces once they have enough restrooms and water dispensers.
  
  I'll be giving tips on how to build other offices, but I'll just show what's the best option to have in this particular one.
  
  
  
  
  
• We can still use empty space in your office, so let's fill it with a bookshelf.
  
  
  
  
  
• Fill your bookshelf with any books you like.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• If you'd like to see what exactly does improving a particular skill, you can go to an employee's info by clicking them and you will see what everything does.
  
  
  
  
  
  So you've done it! You have built your very first office using every single space you could. And it has only costed you...
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Oh well, that seems a lot, but you will earn it in your first game! Let's get to it!

You can buy engines, but let's rather build our own.

The game will force you to make your first engine, and it should look like this.




It seems that's all we've got, right? It's not! We can buy our first platform already.







I recommend buying Abacaxi SE. It's cheap, and it's easier to make games on it than on the HEGHS. Buying two platforms isn't a good idea, because we can't make a multi cross-platform game, yet.





Once we have built our first engine, let's make our first game.

Always try to make 1x scale games until you have more employees. And by "more employees" I mean a lot, if not, you'll start losing money quickly.

Something very important about early story mode is that 1x scale games can be priced as 9.99$. You can easily make at least one or two games selling them at 10 bucks without people complaining about it.




The more points your game requires, the longer it will take to make it and the quicker you'll lose money.





As you can see, it has added a TON of quality points into your game, but as you can see in the black right box, everything is gray. That means you have no knowledge about any of those options, so it will just mean you'll lose time and you'll fail making your game.






That's a lot of time saved.

In the end, your game should look like this.




2189 points can be done in three years easily. That means you can already start making your game!



In the meantime, you can hire one or two software engineers.


If there isn't any cheap software engineer, wait a few weeks until it appears. Your main character will still be working in the game so waiting it's not a problem.


















I strongly suggest that every time your employees ask for vacation, you give it to them. They will work better once they're back. If you prefer so, you can check the "auto-approve vacation" office preference too.

After making a QA as the Investor told you, and reaching 100% in development, you can already release your game.











After some time, your game will stop selling.





That was one of many games yet to come. Our next move is to keep updating our engine and get a better team!