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We are Aniki Games, a small indie studio working on our first game which takes place in the Hollywood movie industry.

We are currently exploring different art styles for our future game and we would love to get your feedback to make sure that the art direction we implement matches with what our game is about and triggers the right player expectations.

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Just started fo playing this game and i realized there is a lot of content, i am a little lost

The game "The Movies" has quite the cult following, even if it's more on the obscure side. There are plenty of ways to get it ported into Windows 10, but after I switched to an AMD machine I have been getting all kinds of graphical glitches, crashes, etc, whereas in my old NVidia laptop it worked just fine.

Anyone got this thing running on an AMD machine?

Simple as the title asks: There is any Port Royale like games out there nowadays?

I had played from PR 2 to PR4 and while I am worried to get PR2 trough steam (the whole not beeing in spanish and might not work on Linux), PR3 is good but it crashes the whole time , PR4 is just boring and I have no real interest on turn based combat... give me that feeling of 1vs5 ships from PR5 , I wanna feel the thirll angaist England military convoys having the ships of the line as oponents.

Anyways I Am rambling, I had played X4 tough I need sort it out a bit with mods, it feels slow to start or that's maybe me.. also I played Patrician wich is directly a no go for me, I find it harder than PR...

Hey Guys,
i'm looking for a game that i enjoyed in the past.
Anyone knows how to get hands on this game?
Or is there any similar game like this one?
Thanks in advance...

Hi everyone, I am a researcher looking for recommendations on tycoon-type games to use in my studies.

A little bit of background: I study how members of groups and teams bring together their knowledge to perform at high levels. I have been thinking about the possibility of using a tycoon game to study this. Others in my field have tried this with varying success. For example, a few studies have used SimCity 4, training different members of the team different information and asking them to combine their knowledge. Theoretically, the teams that know who on the team who knows what and use each other's knowledge should perform the best. Something like SimCity could probably work, but I'm wondering if there are other options. I just recently came across Anno 1800 and it seems like it might work, but maybe you could help me decide based on the list below

What I'm looking for, ideally (some of these are more/less important):

• A game where people can play as a team
• A game where performance is on a scale (e g., resources earned, population)
• Need to be able to separate knowledge/roles (e.g., one person knows about X resources and another person knows about Y resources)
• Need to have four or five primary knowledge bases/roles
• Teammates need to be moderately interdependent such that each member's performance is somewhat dependent on their teammates' knowledge (e g., my ability to use resource X to its highest ability depends on me communicating with someone else about what they know)
• I would likely be doing this research in a laboratory setting with college students, so it needs to be something where I could train them on the basics in about half hour to an hour
• It doesn't necessarily need to have a timelimit

Any recommendations would be much appreciated!

Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing well. I'm excited to announce that I'm about to release CD Market, a game inspired mainly by the classic Chart Wars. I felt there was a gap in the mobile market for more serious tycoon games, as most available options were quite casual, with only a few unique exceptions. With CD Market, I aimed to create a game with deeper, more engaging content for players.

CD MARKET is a music label simulation game (for iOS and Android), it's mostly text-based focused on simulation. Set in the 90's (CD's golden era). You will be able to manage your artists, handle contracts, scout new artists, make tours, market releases, increase hype, participate in awards, sell as many records as possible, and much more.

The game is currently in the beta testing phase and is expected to be released in stores end of october, at the latest. If you'd like to join as a tester (limited spots), please join the Discord! If you prefer to wait for the official release, you can also join the Discord, and I'll make sure to ping you when it's ready.

https://discord.gg/ZvukVZePDt

There's a subreddit if you want to join also! https://www.reddit.com/r/cdmarketgame

You can see game shots in the discord and subreddit :)

Thank you for your time! Have a great day.

Hey all, I've been thinking about making a restaurant tycoon game for a really long time and I've started working on it over the last few months.

I have a plan laid out with what I think would be cool to have in a game of this type but I'm keen to hear if people had their own ideal restaurant tycoon game. Hit me with some of your ideas!

I've been reminiscing about the Westward games by Sandlot that I used to play a lot out of back in the day and I was thinking; "wouldn't it be great if there's actually a new city-builder set in the wild west?" and that prompted me to this sub lol.

Does anyone know any city-building game set in the wild west worth playing?

Anyone has ideas on any games similar to Oiligarchy? "Similar", means that the game has market&bussiness elements, the major focus is oil or fossil fuel extraction and industry, the price is indeed actually influenced by demand&supply rather than randomly changing, and the fossil fuel reserve is limited, deploying the "peak oil" theory. It is quite suprising that I have not found any atampt to create a game following those tags, Oiligarchy is like by far the only one of this type of game.

But the game is now over a decade old, missing the shale gas revolution and the breakthroughs in green technologies, and missing the time when China overtakes USA in crude oil consumption, making it less realistic feeling. And it really has quite many bugs in it, hindering game experience.

It would be more preferable, if the game tries to simulate the worldwide scale of oil&gas demand&supply with player controlled company and AI controlled companies.

Mobile (iOS) is where I get most of my gaming done nowadays. I've installed the mobile version of Sid Myers' Railroads, and I honestly feel like there is a lot to love. I feel its not quite scratching the itch that I can get from Railway Empire on desktop. As far as I can tell, I'm pining for the management of tracks in a factorio-style granularity. I'm interested in finding out if there's any other options out there.

While I love RCT classic, I have trouble getting in to Transport tycoon. OpenTTD is on my future play list for desktop, but also isn't what I'm looking for right now.

I'm really just chasing the high of playing *Lionel Trains on Track* as a train obsessed child, and wanting to take the "model railroad with gamified goals" with me on the road.

I want to make a new project and need ideas on what to do next. It would be a browser game in HTML rather than a game engine, but I can translate a game idea to the web.

So, what kind of tycoon/simulation games would you like to play/see? What is your dream game? It can be a game that doesn't exist or similar to existing ones. The more descriptive and precise you are the better.

Thank you :)

TBH I just got into the genre recently, not an expert or hardcore tycoon player at all - so I'm curious what was that first tycoon you played and if you still play it sometimes or leave it in the nostalgia zone. I started with Youtubers Life, don't think I'm gonna play it again as I think it might get ruined for me

Okay, so, I've been looking for a good tycoon to play for a VERY long time. Typically I like them to be about making movies or games, but anything is fine. Please just let me know of some. I'm tired of hearing the same "The Movies" or "Rollercoaster Tycoon 3", I wanna hear some stuff thats new.

Here's the list of what I've ALREADY tried or heard of:

• The Movies
• Rollercoaster Tycoon 1-3
• Mad Games Tycoon 1-2
• Fake It
• Factorio
• Hardware Tycoon
• Blockbuster Inc.
• It's A Flop!
• Game Dev Tycoon
• Drug Lord Tycoon
• Gang Tycoon
• Movies Tycoon
• Espresso Tycoon
• Masterplan Tycoon
• Computer Tycoon
• Tube Tycoon
• Series Makers Tycoon
• Blockbuster Inc
• Planet Zoo
• Planet Coaster
• OpenTTD
• Big Ambitions
• Mad Tower Tycoon
• Pizza Tycoon
• TVTower
• Another one about games I cant remember the name

Out of all of those, here are the tycoons I enjoyed so that you have something to go off of:

• Mad Games Tycoon 2
• Game Dev Tycoon
• Blockbuster Inc.
• Tube Tycoon

Thanks.

Ive been recommended big pharmy roller coaster and zoo tycoon

What other games could I play I also like factorio as well

I wish more theme park tycoon games handled the *full* experience of theme park ownership/management, including parking building/revenue (like upgrading from a parking lot that takes up half your property to building a parking garage) and hotels/resorts (cheaper ones further away, expensive ones with their own gates)

Any that you can think of?

Hello r/tycoon !

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We've just started a playtest for our an Internet Service Provider simulation game that we've been working on.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2939600/Tower_Networking_Inc/

If you would like to be part of this, feel free to come over to our store page and request access to it.

Cheers!

I'll start this with I LOVE tycoons but few are scratching my itch lately. I'm the owner of a marketing company and 2 food trucks (so this is kinda research for me too).

Also I'm not a dev lol maybe a fev will get inspired by this though.

I've noticed an influx of car wash franchises in my area lately, I got to thinking how cool that would be for a tycoon game. This wouldn't be one where you see all the moving pieces and simulation style, just straight 3d modeled buildings tycoon style.

Features -Full customization of your company logo, colors, graphics, name, etc.

-Diff starting options such as Angel investors, Loans, or starting a small basic self serve and working your way up.

-Diff add ons to your carwash like vaccum stations, waxes, soaps, fully automated carwashes.

-Creating Membership packages for your customers

-Competing against Ai carwashes

-Staff management, schedules, managers,mechanics

-Equipment breakdowns

-Changing demographics,economy, and marketshare. Just bc you have a booming location don't mean it will stay booming forever.

-Building an HQ/ ability to sell franchises/create C-Suite executive board.

-Research to new locations, new cities, funding roads, or community projects. (Many times new businesses don't get granted permission to build unless they add to the community.) Imagine balancing your expansion and the city wants you to finance a park or shopping center.

-Bids on new locations verse Ai

I'll stop im already getting too excited.