This one is on me, Ray_the_man. The other players are excited about the game and want to know what's next. A roadmap will help everyone understand what goes into the upcoming version. However, the reality is that I don't know what goes into the next version either, even though I'm developing it. Sometimes I add features just before a set deadline, and sometimes, when they are buggy or unfinished, I remove them completely. That's what happened to hardware development in v0.2
can you add more consoles that are just powerful beacause I’m at year 2000 and I need new popular console's, also portable consoles would be cool like a Wii (Rii) or (sii) also a storage would be cool like this game is 8 gigabytes and won’t fit on ROM cartridge
My dream has come true I've affected the game! hold on I'm going to pinch myself make sure I'm not dreaming I'm not okay good (I actually did make it die they need to be more dynamic like if one's on it gets really far ahead everybody is just going to make that genre because it's the best genre and the last genre will very quickly die)
About that last part actually it could become more saturated which is a debuff because well that's realistic. if you make one in a small genre it won't do very well unless you're an established game publisher in that case it's popularity will explode so that creating different games is rewarded.
sad to report this cuz its actually kinda fun to exploit:
so the advertising works weird, so if you buy 1 international ad it creates a stack of international ads, but then when you buy local versions of that ad (a lot cheaper) , it doesnt create a new stack, but instead just adds the amount to the stack of international ads for local versions. meaning you can get internationa ads for a lot cheaper than you should. this also works in reverse, so you could get ripped off if you buy international ads but already have a stack of local or national ads running.
(if its already reported and i missed it then my bad :3
Rookie numbers I get it in 3 days after I release my first game after about a month I've not got a billion but I would probably get it after ~5-10 years (but IRL my perfectionist self gets the best of me and I reset to get better market share)
Even when coming back to this game i find it very fun, although my perfectionist self gets the best of me, and i keep resetting runs just get a little better results.
I do wish some things weren't so exploitable, like you can hire a team and then just before the month ends, fire them. which makes you pay slot less than you should. 2nd advertising your game is weird, cuz everytime you open and close the window the prices reset, so the best way is just to go in n' out till you get the best prices. feels like the prices should rotate daily instead.
Also i'd love to see difficulty settings in the future. But im getting carried away, so merry christmas, happy new year and keep up the good work!
Can you please make it so you can scrap games in development, i designed a big game and then I realized that i made it on a platform no longer in production
Yes, of course. In real life, it was rare for hard copies of games to get an update after release, but it did happen. So yes, I will definitely think about adding it to the game. Thanks for the suggestion.
Would you add Contracts in a future update. I'd like to see a feature where we can sign advertisement contracts so that I don't have to create more ads every month.
The game is not working for me, it worked before but now only the "Create Game" button is working and even then when the game gets created, I am unable to release it because that button too is not working.
It shows 500 Internal Error after the game gets created
Hi, that's an interesting bug. It's probably not the game but the underlying tooling that causes it. I'm guessing you played the game before v0.2.0? If you are playing the browser version, try changing your browser to see if it fixes the problem.
Hey thanks, that worked. I also have a question, are you able to effext the console sales of a platform? For example if you make games for another platform can that cause the sales of that particular platform to increase?
Remaking the whole game! That must be a lot of work but still patches and stuff will probably come soon. I'm guessing 0.3 will also (finally) let you make your own devices
Yes, v0.3.0 is planned to launch with Linux support. Do you use a specific Linux distro and version? Knowing the exact distro version will help a lot with playtesting.
Wait, I have an idea for the PC. What if you added a feature where different components can become the criteria. For example, a PC's minimum requirement is 200 PP or 400 GP or 9 MB of RAM, etc. So you will have the minimum requirement to be a Pentium 4, don't focus on extending the game, focus of increasing the quality of the set time the game is.
No you can still play old games on a computer and thus it could play a simple game. right now it only takes about an hour to get through to the end so I think more content should be better for now(Of course better quality content will eventually be better than more content after all who wants to play a game that's years long).
It's a good idea, but it's only applicable for PC and single platform. what if we target multiple platform? different systems have vastly different power, and they are not comparable. I tried to simplify it by using PP and GP as a way to measure their power but in real life if you optimize a game it can run on any platform. It's a problem I don't have a solution for yet.
It's weird, right? I know the overall feedback here has been positive, but if you hate the game let me know, it's ok to criticize the game. Leave a comment and share your thoughts.
Maybe the game is more broken than I thought just look and you'll see basically I use the marketing trick where I do one super expensive one in the international and then like 30 of the same in local and it just gives me a bunch of hype super broken like how did that even slip by broken I'm going to see if I can get to 100%. And this was with only 60% originally for racing with 80 I'm afraid it might break past 100% and get to like a hundred and something%
Ok I'm starting to get afraid I might have to leave until the game is fixed because this is maximum maximum priority like if one of these hyper broken saves gets in to version 0.2.1 then I think the whole game could just lose interest except for like the people who have figured this out and they're just enjoying their quadrillion dollars or whatever
Jan 4 1979 I don't think humanity is going to recover from this they're just going to be stuck playing the game the first time a game developer is just like please stop playing our game you're going to lead us to a future where we can't get anything done except beating levels in my game
I don't even know what to say anymore but this is absurd maybe just keep it so YouTubers can have some fun you know they can afford to spend hours playing the game seriously if you are a YouTuber reading this and you do gaming please make a video real quick doesn't have to be the best of quality but some attention would be really nice less bugs at least (yes I'm looking at you djaro games of you're still here!)
Yeah I did actually get one with 80% but sadly it went bankrupt with -4,000 man I wish there was a way to continue if it's more than -10,000 make more than 10,000 in one day remove the 10,000 from the bank and you're good
Do same thing I did please but just with more games I only made around 20 doing five every once in a while so do somewhere around 10 maybe each time and make in total well just as many as you can! (Also I bought three offices in the beginning instead of my normal strategy of two ((try doing AA (((or even AAA)I only did large))
Feel free to share it with the community. I'm okay with players exploiting bugs. If you have time, please report it on Discord, there is a bug report channel.
I know, but that's intentional. I will increase the speed a little bit, but not by much. The game feels slow because there isn't much to do on a daily basis, that's what I think.
rebellium can you make it so that you can make anything simple enough like buying a company making a cheap beta so i dont go bankrupt at 99 things like that
wow, rebellion. Thank shortout for Processor tycoon. i am finally play new cpu tycoon replacement. NO offense for hardware tycoon. I been playing hardware tycoon for awfully long time
Much better than any modern text-based management game out there. It may turned me down for the "corporatism" design, ykyk, but i'm not expecting it to be this good and much more immersive content! Great work devs!
this game is awesome I originally thought hardware tycoon was the best device game note can you add the abblity to update your games also abblity to put game on multiple devices
Hey, Rebellium? Could you please include difficulty levels? I love the game, but I’m HORRIBLE at achieving success in this new version. I mean, absolutely AWFUL. Usually I go bankrupt between 1979-1985. So, could you please include an easy mode (EGS for features: You have a larger selection of technologies in the beginning, employees work for dirt cheap, everything is far less expensive, ETC) for us novices, and a hard mode (EGS for features: You have no technologies available to you at the start, you now have to CONVINCE employees to join your company, you need to worry about fitting in with trends, ETC) for the experts? Maybe a tutorial for the noviciest novices? Thanks!
i love it, its super fun and simple BUT its super easy to break or loose all of your progress, i was playing, decided to go to the menu to export my save because i struggle with pc crashing, and after like doing this 4 times all my saves broke so uh
downloaded the game, and yes its my pc crashing but its not the reason, its the reason i do backups but doing many backups broke all my saves, even the ones i did no backups on, i first lost like 1 hour of progress after my pc crashed, then i lost like 30min of progress when my new save broke, i do love the game tho but i just wish the backup stuff didnt break the saves
Uhhhhh rebellium self-publishing is broken you can sell games easily at a million dollars and if you bring it down to zero you can still make money too and then you just dominate the video game market
Yeah but I went bankrupt because of my way of getting a bunch of units XD currently at: 93% (in 1981) I wouldn't be surprised if the whole video game market just turned to this one gold standard Plus it would probably also be the only one to ever surface after you know 1978
Oh yeah also if you have any ideas of extending the discontinued state of the console by how much it sold I would not recommend it because of this thing only working with self-publishing enabled consoles okay if I sold I mean how many games for that console it sold since it's basically like that already if it's just the amount of the console sold
Second run two achievements less than 1% for every other category and on top of that 95%. Mayhaps even 96% we'll see yeah I did proof because I feel like I need it new question can a category of game go completely extinct the lowest I've seen is 0.04% I've somehow reached 97% let me just say that again 97% WHAT but also how do you fix a game strategy like seriously of course yes this is wildly broken but still
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i have a idea its called tech giants that means tech not just games we could make our own stuff
I don't know how many times he said it but it's coming it's been coming since the beginning of the game.
ok
This one is on me, Ray_the_man. The other players are excited about the game and want to know what's next. A roadmap will help everyone understand what goes into the upcoming version. However, the reality is that I don't know what goes into the next version either, even though I'm developing it. Sometimes I add features just before a set deadline, and sometimes, when they are buggy or unfinished, I remove them completely. That's what happened to hardware development in v0.2
Haha yeah game development is hard work.
At least you haven't abandoned it yet!
I agree. I have been working on expanding Tech Giants into hardware, applications, etc. It's just taking forever to make it happen.
okay so its either im bad at this game or im not reading enough
I want to say it's a skill issue 😅, but the game has balancing problems, so it's probably that.
Make a console self-published (drh-80) sell it for $1000 then $0 and you'll be a billionaire in no time you don't even have to research
could you make it so we can release games on multiple consoles also great game can you publish your game yourself
I went bankrupt because my mouse double clicked negotiating with a company that would get 87% of the money causeing me to go bankrupt
Yes. And, we should get a warning when we are about to go bankrupt
I agree
Oh, That's a UI/UX problem. Thanks for letting me know.
can you add more consoles that are just powerful beacause I’m at year 2000 and I need new popular console's, also portable consoles would be cool like a Wii (Rii) or (sii) also a storage would be cool like this game is 8 gigabytes and won’t fit on ROM cartridge
We'll see v0.3 about February to March I think and that just seems pretty obvious so I think it should be added.
also more offices will be good next gen games so slow to make.
Absolutely we should get a a response from the dev soon
We will get more consoles in the game. But, v0.3 will only come out when its ready.
I was just saying based off around November when you said you were released in about 6 months :)
Yii maybe?
I was about to use UwU, but Yii is the better choice
:D
Mario Kart! I'M RICH! HAHAHAHAHA
RICH ,I SAY!!
Oh no
OH NO WE'RE DOOMED INTO NO PRODUCTION
OH, YEAH!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
The game could be interesting if it was faster
For the one billionth time there's not much stuff to do
Just letting people remember but there's a Reddit at : https://www.reddit.com/r/TechGiants/
LOL, You know what because of your gameplay style I will add DEAD Genres.
My dream has come true I've affected the game! hold on I'm going to pinch myself make sure I'm not dreaming I'm not okay good (I actually did make it die they need to be more dynamic like if one's on it gets really far ahead everybody is just going to make that genre because it's the best genre and the last genre will very quickly die)
About that last part actually it could become more saturated which is a debuff because well that's realistic. if you make one in a small genre it won't do very well unless you're an established game publisher in that case it's popularity will explode so that creating different games is rewarded.
So how's it going right now?
You mean the development progress? Slow and steady.
How I would expect. don't forget to mention me in the devlog!
I seen genres die before trust me it can happen
So close to a new record I'm at 54 games and development right now because I made a little automated script
99.79% at most rip all production and labor
Project market share is a BIG success
The secret to success
making big gamesmaking your games free!?!?!sad to report this cuz its actually kinda fun to exploit:
so the advertising works weird, so if you buy 1 international ad it creates a stack of international ads, but then when you buy local versions of that ad (a lot cheaper) , it doesnt create a new stack, but instead just adds the amount to the stack of international ads for local versions. meaning you can get internationa ads for a lot cheaper than you should. this also works in reverse, so you could get ripped off if you buy international ads but already have a stack of local or national ads running.
(if its already reported and i missed it then my bad :3
:3
Yeah, advertising was always broken.
Oh well you can't find and fix every bug
$1M speedrun
Rookie numbers I get it in 3 days after I release my first game after about a month I've not got a billion but I would probably get it after ~5-10 years (but IRL my perfectionist self gets the best of me and I reset to get better market share)
very nice game, but very slow, I wait probably 10 minutes, when the game is finished, you can add 3x and 4x time
It's not slow, it's just a game with nothing much to do.
Yeah it might have been 3 years but it's still in the early stages
Even when coming back to this game i find it very fun, although my perfectionist self gets the best of me, and i keep resetting runs just get a little better results.
I do wish some things weren't so exploitable, like you can hire a team and then just before the month ends, fire them. which makes you pay slot less than you should. 2nd advertising your game is weird, cuz everytime you open and close the window the prices reset, so the best way is just to go in n' out till you get the best prices. feels like the prices should rotate daily instead.
Also i'd love to see difficulty settings in the future. But im getting carried away, so merry christmas, happy new year and keep up the good work!
I will keep your feedback in mind, Thanks for playing Tech Giants!
Can you please make it so you can scrap games in development, i designed a big game and then I realized that i made it on a platform no longer in production
Yes, for sure.
Am I supposed to wait long to start the game? I'm on browser.
Not really, if the wait time is more than a few seconds, it's probably a browser specific bug. You could try to switch your browser.
I'm on Safari. Is the problem specific to that browser?
Yes, Safari is not fully supported.
I see, thank you.
chromium browsers work, like chrome or Brave (my reccomendation.
I know I've already commented on here but I just wanted to say to keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for the support!
Where did the music come from?
It was made by my brother. There is a credits page that you can access by clicking on the version number in the main menu.
I just realized how bad and obscure the UX is.
Your brother definitely has some experience!
Any chance we could get the ability to update already released games in the future?
Yes, of course. In real life, it was rare for hard copies of games to get an update after release, but it did happen. So yes, I will definitely think about adding it to the game. Thanks for the suggestion.
Never knew that (I'm just reviewing comments and commenting when I see fit)
Are there any other platforms you unlock later in the game
As of v0.2.0, Ataru XE is the last platform that is unlocked in 1987
Damn I’m at 2000, I want to use that console for GREAT game's but it’s so un popular.
Would you add Contracts in a future update. I'd like to see a feature where we can sign advertisement contracts so that I don't have to create more ads every month.
Probably in v0.3.0
Do any more things happen after the nes discontinues? My game is in 1997 with 2 billion dollars and I'm just waiting for something else to come out
No, nothing else happens after that.
Have you decided to port the game to our country's gaming platform? The webmaster consents to portability
And please send your email address to contact you.
Hi, I was busy working on the new version, and unfortunately, I did not have time to follow up.
The game is not working for me, it worked before but now only the "Create Game" button is working and even then when the game gets created, I am unable to release it because that button too is not working.
It shows 500 Internal Error after the game gets created
Hi, that's an interesting bug. It's probably not the game but the underlying tooling that causes it. I'm guessing you played the game before v0.2.0? If you are playing the browser version, try changing your browser to see if it fixes the problem.
Hey thanks, that worked. I also have a question, are you able to effext the console sales of a platform? For example if you make games for another platform can that cause the sales of that particular platform to increase?
My memory is rusty, but I believe you can't affect the sales of platforms.
trying to not be rude but when 0.3.0 released
I think in the next 6 months v0.3.0 will be ready. I have been remaking the whole game, it's going to take a while.
Remaking the whole game! That must be a lot of work but still patches and stuff will probably come soon. I'm guessing 0.3 will also (finally) let you make your own devices
What's your prediction now 4 months later?
Another 5 to 6 months, You can keep up with the progress by looking at the Discord. I do a by monthly devlog there.
Ah ok
Will you ever port your game to Linux by chance?
Yes, v0.3.0 is planned to launch with Linux support. Do you use a specific Linux distro and version? Knowing the exact distro version will help a lot with playtesting.
Can you add the SNES or in this case, the SYES?
Yes, I will. Thanks for playing the game.
Wait, I have an idea for the PC. What if you added a feature where different components can become the criteria. For example, a PC's minimum requirement is 200 PP or 400 GP or 9 MB of RAM, etc. So you will have the minimum requirement to be a Pentium 4, don't focus on extending the game, focus of increasing the quality of the set time the game is.
No you can still play old games on a computer and thus it could play a simple game. right now it only takes about an hour to get through to the end so I think more content should be better for now(Of course better quality content will eventually be better than more content after all who wants to play a game that's years long).
It's a good idea, but it's only applicable for PC and single platform. what if we target multiple platform? different systems have vastly different power, and they are not comparable. I tried to simplify it by using PP and GP as a way to measure their power but in real life if you optimize a game it can run on any platform. It's a problem I don't have a solution for yet.
Add a few research options to optimize. I've seen modded versions of Valorant run on a calculator.
Yeah, I think it's a good idea to have optimization option, I will try to add that.
Maybe add an option to make fonts based on graphics. I've seen a few games do it and it did pretty well.
Do you mean text based? I think it's in the game.
Finally someone who commented 16 days later that's absurd for how popular the game seems to be
It's weird, right?
I know the overall feedback here has been positive, but if you hate the game let me know, it's ok to criticize the game. Leave a comment and share your thoughts.
Maybe it's just because it's been 74 days since version 2.0 released, still I can't wait for 2.1!
Yeah, Maybe.
Ok I'm starting to get afraid I might have to leave until the game is fixed because this is maximum maximum priority like if one of these hyper broken saves gets in to version 0.2.1 then I think the whole game could just lose interest except for like the people who have figured this out and they're just enjoying their quadrillion dollars or whatever
Jan 4 1979 I don't think humanity is going to recover from this they're just going to be stuck playing the game the first time a game developer is just like please stop playing our game you're going to lead us to a future where we can't get anything done except beating levels in my game
I don't even know what to say anymore but this is absurd maybe just keep it so YouTubers can have some fun you know they can afford to spend hours playing the game seriously if you are a YouTuber reading this and you do gaming please make a video real quick doesn't have to be the best of quality but some attention would be really nice less bugs at least (yes I'm looking at you djaro games of you're still here!)
99.81% Wow, that's a new record!
Yeah I did actually get one with 80% but sadly it went bankrupt with -4,000 man I wish there was a way to continue if it's more than -10,000 make more than 10,000 in one day remove the 10,000 from the bank and you're good
Do same thing I did please but just with more games I only made around 20 doing five every once in a while so do somewhere around 10 maybe each time and make in total well just as many as you can! (Also I bought three offices in the beginning instead of my normal strategy of two ((try doing AA (((or even AAA)I only did large))
Rebellium, I found a trick that you can get your game 1st ranks with 500k budget
Feel free to share it with the community. I'm okay with players exploiting bugs. If you have time, please report it on Discord, there is a bug report channel.
the gameplay is too slow. Make the ticks faster or something
I know, but that's intentional. I will increase the speed a little bit, but not by much. The game feels slow because there isn't much to do on a daily basis, that's what I think.
also you should add some sense of competition like in hardwere tycoon where you can see the market share of publishers and stuff
You basically can the only thing that matters isn't your company market share but it's actually the genre surprising right
rebellium can you make it so that you can make anything simple enough like buying a company making a cheap beta so i dont go bankrupt at 99 things like that
Yes, sure. Thanks for the feedback.
hi
wow, rebellion. Thank shortout for Processor tycoon. i am finally play new cpu tycoon replacement. NO offense for hardware tycoon. I been playing hardware tycoon for awfully long time
I couldn't stop playing pocessor tycoon. i played on my Chromebook in my school and even playing my home laptops on the house
same
I know it's been half a year but same when I first tried it out not on my phone SO MUCH FUN
Much better than any modern text-based management game out there. It may turned me down for the "corporatism" design, ykyk, but i'm not expecting it to be this good and much more immersive content! Great work devs!
The game has so much potential, really good. But if it was faster it would be even better
A mod for faster speed would be great
Uhhhhhhh⬇️
has anyone made a 5x speed mod?
You would run out of stuff quite quickly so you should probably wait until the game is bigger and isn't just everything is discontinued
How do i play? it says i need to pick the type of graphics but i need resesarch or something like that im confused
After picking a platform, you will need to choose a graphics type. The graphics section is collapsed, click on it to open it.
Thanks :)
this game is awesome I originally thought hardware tycoon was the best device game note can you add the abblity to update your games also abblity to put game on multiple devices
Yes, I can. I’m glad you enjoyed it. I played Hardware Tycoon, and it’s sad to see Haxor not being able to continue working on it.
Hey, Rebellium? Could you please include difficulty levels? I love the game, but I’m HORRIBLE at achieving success in this new version. I mean, absolutely AWFUL. Usually I go bankrupt between 1979-1985. So, could you please include an easy mode (EGS for features: You have a larger selection of technologies in the beginning, employees work for dirt cheap, everything is far less expensive, ETC) for us novices, and a hard mode (EGS for features: You have no technologies available to you at the start, you now have to CONVINCE employees to join your company, you need to worry about fitting in with trends, ETC) for the experts? Maybe a tutorial for the noviciest novices? Thanks!
Hi, I will try to get the difficulty levels ready for the next version. No promises though. Thanks for the feedback.
Thank you!
Ironically, the decision to include difficulty levels is basic game design.
While you wait you should probably check the market in the beginning it makes a big difference (sorry I can't disable bold)
i love it, its super fun and simple BUT its super easy to break or loose all of your progress, i was playing, decided to go to the menu to export my save because i struggle with pc crashing, and after like doing this 4 times all my saves broke so uh
Oh, that’s not good. Do you play in the browser? Does the game crash, or is it your PC crashing?
downloaded the game, and yes its my pc crashing but its not the reason, its the reason i do backups but doing many backups broke all my saves, even the ones i did no backups on, i first lost like 1 hour of progress after my pc crashed, then i lost like 30min of progress when my new save broke, i do love the game tho but i just wish the backup stuff didnt break the saves
I know saves and backups are bad at the moment. I will try to make them better in the next version. Thanks for sharing your experience.
What!? Definitely a bug. Thanks for reporting it.
Yeah but I went bankrupt because of my way of getting a bunch of units XD currently at: 93% (in 1981) I wouldn't be surprised if the whole video game market just turned to this one gold standard Plus it would probably also be the only one to ever surface after you know 1978
Oh yeah also if you have any ideas of extending the discontinued state of the console by how much it sold I would not recommend it because of this thing only working with self-publishing enabled consoles okay if I sold I mean how many games for that console it sold since it's basically like that already if it's just the amount of the console sold
Going to do a couple more saves so there's going to be maybe around 10 replies
Okay okay I'm now at 97.5% I don't even get how there are still people trying to make different kinds of games it's just over for them
I just realized I can mix my two broken strategies if I didn't already this is going to be broken if I didn't mix them
LOL, For a second there I though it's a new record.
Ha but I think the 115 million sales might be for me somehow even though I had one that went all the way to 1995 or something a little beyond that