Game Director Story
Game Director Story is an unflinching and satirical look behind-the-scenes at how big-budget AAA games are made. Based on first-hand accounts by industry veterans, Players will experience the emotional roller coaster of guiding a team through the agonizing decisions and compromises needed to ship a game.
You will take on the role of a newly hired Game Director in this character-driven narrative experience, responsible for balancing your relationship with your team, publisher, press, influencers, and fans.
Decide how you want to handle real industry situations like crunch, technical debt, inclusivity, micro-transactions, sexism, exclusives and more, and be prepared to deal with the impact of your decisions on your team and the game.
- Based on real-life scenarios
Based on real events contributed by veteran game developers, players will experience the emotional roller-coaster of game development. Experience all phases of development, making difficult decisions while guiding your team to the euphoric finish line of shipping a game.
- Balance competing relationships.
Maintain critical relationships and the frequently conflicting interests of your team, your publisher, the press, and fans, all while preserving your vision and staying on budget.
- Characters with heart and soul.
Get to know your team members through their stories and help them to grow as a professional or overcome personal challenges.
- Sit in on a Team Chat to check in on your colleagues
Sit in on the daily Team Chat to get a sense of how your team is doing, what they’re concerned about, and how they feel about your decisions.
- Deal with unexpected and game altering obstacles.
Live through iconic industry challenges or situations that can occur during development like “Publisher requests a last minute E3 presence”.
- Live with the consequences of your choices
With the clock ticking, choose the decisions you believe are important, and live with the consequences on your game and the team.
- Real, but humorous.
While GDS tackles real industry challenges, a healthy dose of humor and satire keeps things light and entertaining, while handling difficult topics in an approachable way.
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My Lovely Daughter
Fathers were always so Underrated
My review after a long while tbh, I will dedicate this one to my loving father. Whom I believe just as the father in this game, would probably do anything for me to be alive (ok maybe not so twisted as these things haha)
This is roughly a point and click adventure which includes a dark story, symbolism, time management all in one for a plot where a single father is trying to revive his only hope in the world: his daughter. The story follows a man named Faust who lost everything important to him which was his family. He is an alchemist and he was banished to the forgotten parts of the city where the people who did not belong lived. There many many things happened and he lost his daughter and he uses the forbidden arts to revive her.
– Real player with 28.8 hrs in game
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Graphics: 5/10
Music: 3/10
Story: 3/10
Overall: 4/10
I wanted to like this game. I really did. Not only because management games are right up my alley, or because I just love Princess Maker style games, or because a dear friend gifted it to me. But because I DO love dark and twisted takes to those sim raising games.
A raising sim where you aren’t raising a daughter but homunculi that are mere tools for a bigger end? It can’t get much darker than that. You are basically playing as the very-very-very bad dad from Full Metal Alchemist that used his daughter in an experiment to keep his goverment money. But as much as I love those dark takes, I don’t take well when people assume that my inteligence and capacity to differenciate reality vs fiction and good vs bad is null. Right as you start the game you will be greeted by a long text basically explaining why what you’re about to play is so horrible and terrible and I’m not sure if it’s just that the developers really think that the people who will buy this game are idiots, psychos or if they just want you to feel bad and guilty for playing it but it’s certainly one of the two.
– Real player with 23.2 hrs in game
Furry Shakespeare: Emperor Penguin Lear
You were just invited to partake in Elsinore Academy’s summer theater program! But then there was that horrible accident during the production of Cymbeline, and now you’re sort of a ghost. Emphasis on sort of. Everyone still thinks that you’re alive, to the point of maybe dating you, and you’ve even signed up for the latest play, King Lear, written by Girl Werewolf Hamlet.
Look, it’s a whole thing, okay?
Haunted by your past, you must make this the best play ever! Influence the main faculty, make friends and defeat enemies, and just have the best summer theater experience that a ghost actor has ever had!
Each segment of the game feeds into the next: your schooling during the day will affect the play during the night. As an incorporeal (somewhat) being, you have the ability to change how the play goes, and therefore how it is received by the general public. Your friendships and rivalries will spill out on to the stage, you’ll chart each actors progress and teach them new skills, and you might even alter King Lear forever! A drama might become a comedy, a comedy might become a drama!
Features
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Use your ghost powers to manipulate every aspect of the production of King Lear.
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Interact with a host of students.
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Date five people. Not all at once.
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Solve the mystery of your own murder!
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Mythos Ever After: A Cthulhu Dating Sim RX
You’ve been abandoned by your con buddies at the world’s most popular pop culture convention! But wait, twelve ultra-cool monster squid things that are also medical doctors and may or may not be creatures of the dark that travel through time have just walked in! Can you muster up the courage to ask them if they want to be your new Con Friends? Maybe you can spend all four days with one of them?
Basically, the gameplay is thus:
- You have four days at the convention, with multiple things to do!
The Stonks Market
A charming meme game that manages to capture my experience in the stock market frighteningly well. The writing from Vagabond Dog is what you expect, funny and well paced. It’s a relatively short playthrough, but it’s worth to go through a second time if you lost it all when you yolo’d in $JANC the first time. 10/10 would hold again.
– Real player with 5.1 hrs in game
A short, but comical story about a clueless man flirting with the stock market for the first time.
The trading platform sections are enjoyable and are critical to directing the narrative one way or the other. Are you going to lose more than just your money, or will you triumph and end on a high? The story being tied to my trading performance made me care about doing well to potentially get a good conclusion.
I’m about to go through it again and see how my story differs if I YOLO it all!
– Real player with 2.3 hrs in game
Furry Shakespeare: Dreamin' of One Lazy Dead Midsummer
Come celebrate Camp Chuckerwood’s 100th year!
It’s Midsummer Night’s Dream meets Friday the 13th, as you work as a camp counselor for the the bloodthirsty, training them to become the next generation of horror icons! The world needs these creatures of the night in order to keep the magic and imagination of the world alive, which is odd, considering these are all slashers and other types of movie monsters.
As Bray the Manticore, you enter Camp Chuckerwood, located on the edges of Lake Quiet Waters, wide eyed and ready to change the lives of your campers. What you get is two Fae Lords in the middle of a break-up, a Sasquatch intent on revenge, a giant wasp doing community service, and a werewolf head counselor at the end of her rope. Also, there’s another, different werewolf at the end of her rope as well, but we don’t want to spoil the entire game for you.
Interact with eight fellow summer counselors and up to four budding legends of horror! Survive the summer play, the summer sportsball game, the typical summer camp horror/slasher experience, and summer rivalries!
Fun is mandatory. Survival is not.
Kujlevka
Russia, 1992. The ordinary village of Kujlevka is no stranger to challenging times. In this dark and otherworldly period of Russian history, the current financial crisis and rising crime rates appear bleak in comparison. And when ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓, it’s up to you to ▓▓▓▓▓. Of all the locations on Earth, this forgotten settlement becomes a bustling center for science, exploration, and the supernatural; you’re merely the poor chap whose home became the saucer’s crash site.
Assuming the role of the kolkhoz’s headmaster, you must ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ before ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓. These guests from outer space are in no hurry to interact with humans, they’d much rather ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ and steadily observe our species and our vast dreams and desires. What exactly might these extraterrestrial beings have planned?
Features
They come in peace! Maybe — This isn’t your stereotypical ▓▓▓▓ encounter. You will be tasked to learn about these otherworldly beings before they can properly study you.
Take a shot, get political — Kujlevka takes place during a time of political onslaught in Russia and, given the circumstances, navigating the community will prove to be its own mission.
Russian nostalgia — While many may find the kolkhoz setting new, Russian players may have a sense of deja vu at this time capsule settlement. We want you to long for an experience you may have missed…
Write your own story — Your decisions influence the story and impacts the world around you. Choose wisely.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante — Chapter 1&2
Wonderful experience!
Much depends on how will the plot develop further but what is already seen in the game is incredible.
Advantages:
- Universe. Game world is interesting. I think a lot will be uncovered by further progress of the story, but what’s seen now makes me curious at least. Not sure about how much I like certain details, like miltiple lifes a person is given with (yet it’s well integrated with game mechanics). Overall, the universe provides for very interesting story developments and reflection.
– Real player with 7.6 hrs in game
Never liked interactive fiction, this one seemed interesting though and had me hooked.
One of he good thing is that the choices are very hard sometimes, and that harder choices actually cost attribute points. If you’ve done a series of actions that has taken up all your willpower you might only be able to helplessly watch as some terrible thing happens before your eyes since you can’t muster up the will to act. This gives a new dimension to player choices which I had never thought of and is extremely interesting, especially when thinking of doing another playthrough.
– Real player with 6.4 hrs in game
Furries & Scalies: Super Scary Halloween Spooky Times Part II
It is Halloween once more, and seasonal stores have begun popping up all over!
Manage your team, make sure Halloween is the best it can be for every customer (except the mean ones), and generally spread holiday fear and excitement! Besides the usual crop of employees, there are a few new ones, with new and interesting stories to tell!
Hoping to make this year the best yet, utilize new training techniques to help your fellow employees navigate through many different retail-related hurdles and help many different customers of varying annoyance level. Pick and choose what promotions to deploy, who to do what, and generally do whatever it takes to try to turn a profit.
Wait, do I hear….. jingle bells? Is that…. a seasonal Christmas store on the second level of the mall? What are the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future doing here? This is all wrong! It’s not even September yet!
This, of course, means war.
Features
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Manage your team
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Manage your store while also either sabotaging or helping the Christmas store
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Uncover a plot to destroy the holidays as you know it! A capitalist plot!
Idol Manager
I put 88 hours into this game. The most standout part of it was the writing really had no business being as good as it was in this game, that is pretty clearly low budget and lacks some polish. I think if they would have kept fixing some of the bugs and polishing it for a month or two more before releasing, it could have easily been so much better and they could have charged twice as much. Also, having the 18+ version as DLC. I used the decensor patch (which turns it into more of an ecchi game, nothing hardcore), and while it didn’t make the game any better at the core, it did add a certain level of spice to elevate the experience.
– Real player with 95.3 hrs in game
This is the kinda game that I stayed up til 5am playing multiple times and when I finally reached the story mode ending early this morning I immediately asked my roommate “hey what do I do with my life now.” (Obviously the answer is to get the remaining endings and achievements but like. first playthrough is done there’s no going back to it.)
The story was a lot more interesting than I was expecting, but even without it the business sim part holds up imo. It’s really easy to get attached to the idols, and it’s fun and satisfying to help them earn fame and awards and such. Definitely don’t do what I did and buy this the week before two big projects are due though. For the sake of my grades I have to leave it alone for a while lmfao.
– Real player with 51.0 hrs in game