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[dennislp3]

Software Inc.

So I stumbled upon this game and its pretty impressive. Pretty much takes the concept of Game Dev Tycoon and adds a ton of depth (company stocks, in depth employee management, employee personalities, etc) and makes a nice little package of a great simulation game.

It is currently in early release alpha and is being developed by one person. Despite this it is pretty fleshed out and well made and already includes modding support.

Pricing is currently $12 and will increase over time (12$ in alpha, 14$ about half-way through the alpha, 16$ during beta and finally 18$ at release)

Website:
http://softwareinc.coredumping.com/

Demo:
http://softwareinc.coredumping.com/demo/

Steam:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/362620/


Current Features

    Build, furnish and maintain office buildings up to ten stories + basement, on an enormous Land
    Hire employees to design, develop, support, research and market software in teams
    Build roads and parking to ease commuting for your employees
    Tend to your employees' needs, demands, skills and specializations, while making sure each team has compatible personalities
    Customize your own employee avatar
    Create your own software products and franchises
    Compete in a simulated or event-driven market by selling your products, taking on contract work or trading stocks
    Hire staff to repair your furniture and computers, and clean your office
    Mod what kind of software you can develop, what kind of companies will be simulated, game scenarios, missions, personalities and random name generators
    Delegate important tasks to your team leaders, such as managing development cycles and human resources
    Set up your own servers for products, source control and running your own online store

Preview Video:
https://youtu.be/h8eB71XmTVo

Screenshots:

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[Chiefwaffles]

Bit of a bump, but this game is actually really interesting.
It's like Game Dev Tycoon if it were 1000x more in depth. I was able to expand my business to have another independent team that worked independently of me!
And then there's apparently parking and servers, which sounds awesome.

[Neonivek]

Fine, I'll get this for myself... I feel oddly sad today...

Lets hope this turns out well...

[lastverb]

More like Mad Games Tycoon with expanded building. Do it keep bad features like your programmer loosing half a month to go toilet?

[sebcool]

Looks really promising. PTW.

[LoSboccacc]

I love those kind of games, did the impulse buy thing.

anyway, I imagine someone in the sector could totally do a let's play like scott manley does for kerbal space program, except it will be gantt charts all day and meeting where stockolders plusvalize the synergies


edit: any idea why my founder isn't working?

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edit: figured it out, myself went to work next day and I had to wait for me to come and start working. what an asshole I am

[dennislp3]

Yes lol...

I love the amount of depth and I really like the automation of teams...

I tend to set up an OS team to pump out an amazing OS every few years and then have multiple teams that make specific programs for that version of the OS

[LoSboccacc]

how do you see the3 results of your contract works? I mean, some client accept horrible quality, but I don't know what I'm delivering to them

[Graknorke]

Bought the game, and now feel like kind of an idiot for not being able to figure out how to rotate furniture.

[dennislp3]

The status is shown on the top right. There is a blue bar that you will see while working on whatever stage. That blue line is the "minimum" they expect. It usually tells you in words (bad, good, great etc) what quality it is if you were to bump it up to the next stage at that moment

[LoSboccacc]

Bought the game, and now feel like kind of an idiot for not being able to figure out how to rotate furniture.

Keep clicked and drag to direction

[Rose]

This looks interesting.

[LoSboccacc]

Yes lol...

I love the amount of depth and I really like the automation of teams...

I tend to set up an OS team to pump out an amazing OS every few years and then have multiple teams that make specific programs for that version of the OS

seems there is too much automation. I've had to do couple contracts, first visual tool, then from there I just had enough for a 4 person team. after those developed the first product, I could afford two dedicated marketers and to send the founder on a six month course it seems it snowballs too fast

[Graknorke]

Really? Because I've found it a constant struggle just to break even while having any employees. It would probably be less so if they didn't spend up until midday pottering around for coffee.

[LoSboccacc]

really, dunno what I am doing differently but the average software from the 4 man team gets in 200k, and the software from the founder 80k a pop.

oh, but I have the founder designing and the developer developing.


toying now with automation... it seems that if I enable project management, the project lead just create a flurry of lowest quality ever crapware, you can literally see the project being done one each month, how I put it off zynga mode?