Made a free Tycoon-style Android game, wondering what you think
For the last half year I've been working on this Lemonade Tycoon style game for Android, and I was looking for some feedback and critisim if you have the time :)
The reason I made it was because I feel a lot of these games that are available for Android today are of a rather low quality, and I think the platform deserves better.
That's why I'm trying to polish this as much as I can and make it really shine, even though it's a rather simple concept. I'm still working on it, so I'd be cool to hear what other fans of the strategy game genre thought!
You can try the game for Free right here in the Android Market
Posted Nov 7, 2011, 12:44 AM UTC
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SWEEETTTT THANKS! , Been waiting on a decent Lemonade Tycoon fix for ages and that's the only thing I miss from my Winmo phone. The full version is kind of pricey though. Make it $1 and I'll buy now. Pressing the back button leaves the game, I'd make it go back a menu instead.
First off, thanks for the kind words! I know how you're feeling cause this is why i made it :)
Second, you're right; let's have a launch sale! 1 buck it is
I'm off to buy, btw What does it mean when the people just walk away from your pizza stand, I get the smiley face and the hands down but what's the other symbol? Also is there any rivals you need to contend with like a big multinational (Pizza House or Tri-Ominos could be good in game names for them) comes in and offers to buy you out or you could go and franchise (by borrowing money from bank at set interest then if you don't pay back by end of month they can start to repo items from the shop or even the whole shop) your pizza shop for a % of profits , then you can really be a Pizza Tycoon by buying up their shares/stores (or by making/loosing money on side by having a ingame shares market which could pull some data from real stock sites just to make it more realistic and interesting) . I haven't played the game much as I'm not making too much profit yet so I don't know how the game actually goes further in (Do you get to hire people and sell drinks too?). I have SOME experience with running a shop irl (Parents own a bakery) so I might be able to give you some ideas . Games like Game Dev Story are very good because they follow history DAMN NEAR PERFECTLY so I reckon you should look into the Pizza Wars of the 80's and 90's in the USA (I remember watching a Docu about Pizza Hut and Dominoes) and maybe the expansion of the pizza business worldwide to places like India to give you some more ideas with the game.I'll stop mumbling and play the game now.
This is really interesting, thanks for the detailed feedback man
My first priority (I've been working on the game for over six months) was to get the quality and gameplay up to a state where it's playable and maybe even enjoyable. Now I'm starting to dig into how to give it more depth, so your feedback is well placed!
It is a tricky thing to balance amount of work something takes to make and the fun it is to play, so I really appreciate hearing other people's ideas
I too am a big fan of the Kairosoft games, I think they're the best strategy games out there for Android, and I really do hope I one day can match them in terms of complexity. It's hard to do with just one guy though :)
Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for testing the game! I'm taking it all down and I'm gonna look at what I can do to add more dimensions to the game
Not a problem :) I'll be keeping a eye out on this game. The only thing I can recommend is don't try updating this game forever but go make a new version or something else after a year to help you get a fresh perspective on things instead of being blinded by adding many small steps and fixes. You could always go make a Fast Food tycoon like game where you try to make the best secret recipe (by growing and experimenting) and end game target is to make the company use all organic ingredients by putting more of the game into raising orgainic chickens/cows/veggies and transportation costs all the while maintaining the normal day to day running of the bussiness like it is in Pizza Tycoon (You can recycle the old game's code for this). Eventaually when you become more confident you could combine all of my ideas into one big ass game for the hardcore crowd and sell it in smaller chunks for more causal players . sell each game for $1 and then somehow get all the games to plugin to each other
Btw, Is there something I can do in Pizza Tycoon to put money into marketing, Ie, hire some kid to give out flyers/newspaper/radio/tv to get more customers or offer daily / weekly / monthly specials like 2 for ones or free drinks with my pizza? If not, I would recommend you add that into the game asap as that's pretty much standard in bussiness. Don't forget about Dine in pizza resturantes where you have to manage waiters/cooks and cleaners, That would be the first thing I would expland the game into after the marketing. Hell there's games out there all about just managing people in a resturante :)