Wow, you counted them? It warms my heart that someone took a closer look at the numbers. I spend a lot of time reading old sales figures and magazines to make it as historically accurate as possible.
ah GREAT! Ready for the ps2 :) also if you make a Wii type thing you should make it so you need to pick if you need to use a nunchuck or motion controls or none, that would be great
Why not, right now I'm reworking the simulation part of the game. If anyone has any suggestions for new genres or themes for the upcoming version, please do share your thoughts.
after reading this I made a studio, immediately leased all the offices, and then hired as many employees as i could, and then made a bunch of AAA games that were all made in like a day, and got 16 million dollars by 1979
every time I go to play the game, the game went 500 error or idk stuff with white text on background black, is it because of my wifi, maybe I think this game require wifi?
The web version does require WIFI, but if you are running the Windows version, it does not. In any case, there is not much I can help with error code 500, as Ray_the_man mentioned the Itch.io servers might have gone down. Other than that, you can try these steps:
For web version:
Make sure WIFI is on.
Make sure you have a Chromium based browser.
Open the game in a private tab/mode.
For Windows version:
Try reinstalling the game. When prompted, choose the "Uninstall Tech Giants" option.
Check "Delete the application data" (this will delete your saves).
wait, can you make offline game, For example. hardware tycoon/processor and eaglercraft and others boring game with no multiplayer loaded doesn't require wifi. If big tech doesn't have any multiplayer, then why big tech require wifi?
The game does not require a constant WIFI connection, it only needs WIFI to load the game. On browsers, the browser cache will get cleared either because you opened a lot of tabs or because your computer ran out of memory. Regardless, the game needs to be reloaded, which requires WIFI. That's how every browser game works really, unless they are built in a way that stores the game files for offline use, but I would think that's quite rare and has its own problems.
The game will have a Linux version in the future. However, as you mentioned, you run the game on a school computer, which means you probably can't install any apps on it because of admin privileges.
I did that when i loaded the game beore wifi go bye, it only last about 5 min because of 500 error, so. why don't you just make offline verison when 2.0 released?
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)
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
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).
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!
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question? Are the consoles in this game picked by you to be popular?
Like some consoles won’t sell well and rebellium picks like “that console will be popular” or is it random or smh
It's the exact same down to the same thousand at most
Wow, you counted them? It warms my heart that someone took a closer look at the numbers. I spend a lot of time reading old sales figures and magazines to make it as historically accurate as possible.
:'D
The console units sold reflect historical figures, With some margin for error and a little of randomization.
ah GREAT! Ready for the ps2 :) also if you make a Wii type thing you should make it so you need to pick if you need to use a nunchuck or motion controls or none, that would be great
horror would be a good game type 👍
Why not, right now I'm reworking the simulation part of the game. If anyone has any suggestions for new genres or themes for the upcoming version, please do share your thoughts.
8 games at once 😈 (and no not like “game 1” no it’s “Motorsport 4” or smh
Thanks so much for the screenshot
:)
what does game game scale change
It makes the game bigger (require more points per feature) at the cost of development time.
but what good does it do
Bigger games generally sell more copies.
Generally!?!??!????
after reading this I made a studio, immediately leased all the offices, and then hired as many employees as i could, and then made a bunch of AAA games that were all made in like a day, and got 16 million dollars by 1979
Try self-publishing ;)
In the year like 2013 or smh there should be social media ads
Yeah, When I expand the game content into the 2000s I will add that.
W
there should also be internet ads, like banner ads on websites starting in the 90s or something
Yes, Good suggestion.
every time I go to play the game, the game went 500 error or idk stuff with white text on background black, is it because of my wifi, maybe I think this game require wifi?
Could've gone down (500 is internal server error but I'm not working in backend)
The web version does require WIFI, but if you are running the Windows version, it does not. In any case, there is not much I can help with error code 500, as Ray_the_man mentioned the Itch.io servers might have gone down. Other than that, you can try these steps:
For web version:
For Windows version:
I am on School Chromebook
wait, can you make offline game, For example. hardware tycoon/processor and eaglercraft and others boring game with no multiplayer loaded doesn't require wifi. If big tech doesn't have any multiplayer, then why big tech require wifi?
The game does not require a constant WIFI connection, it only needs WIFI to load the game. On browsers, the browser cache will get cleared either because you opened a lot of tabs or because your computer ran out of memory. Regardless, the game needs to be reloaded, which requires WIFI. That's how every browser game works really, unless they are built in a way that stores the game files for offline use, but I would think that's quite rare and has its own problems.
The game will have a Linux version in the future. However, as you mentioned, you run the game on a school computer, which means you probably can't install any apps on it because of admin privileges.
I did that when i loaded the game beore wifi go bye, it only last about 5 min because of 500 error, so. why don't you just make offline verison when 2.0 released?
when 2.0 release, it already 2059 year 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
I can only say it will be before GTA 7 comes out 😄
:P
:P
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 :)
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)
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
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.
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
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).
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
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