Code Tycoon

If you love computer science this is a must. Love the style. Love the music. Love code snippets. Love programming languages. Once I started this game I got so drawn into it.

It's on the right track, but a lot feels very missing from early gameplay. --highly tedious. I dislike how much the early game is almost entirely about doing contract work rather than more player-directed stuff. In 20 hours, I don't think I had ANY projects that felt like they were my idea. My business strategy was "slam every project that I was given within my target language." There's not a lot of alternate things to spend on in the first few hours so the main risk vs. reward consideration is... how quickly can I hire employees to slam MORE projects I have zero attachment to and train them for arbitrary levels I also have no attachment to (e.g. if there's any difference between level 10 and level 7, it's marginal at best, and certainly doesn't unlock any exciting new capabilities or specialties that I saw). My suggestion to the developer: in an ideal world I'd have suggested building around fewer concurrent projects and giving the player a more interesting role in each. --the project of endlessly assigning people and reassigning to bugs is not good. From the perspective of someone mainly playing hours 1-3 of this game a few times, managing bugs was pretty damn miserable. How about... I put my derelict employees on a project, and they just do something useful rather than wait for me to get on their ass about doing their jobs? This sim is uncomfortably realistic in every respect except that people get paid to deal with real-world work ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. If it is possible to intelligently assign teams to take care of their own nonsense, that'd probably help (I've tried the mechanic and it doesn't didn't work for me almost at all), but suppose we COULD get teams to intelligently handle projects on their own. At that point, what IS THERE in the game for the player to do? --the training mechanic is I suppose alright, but instead of individually needing to send people to maybe 5-10 training courses, maybe just ONE ROLLING training for Smith (or Smith's team collectively) which I can edit as needs vary. --keeping on top of an inventory of coding languages, although ENTIRELY realistic for the theme, is maybe not the most fun mechanic to grapple with. This mechanic feels more intuitive in other games. It's a ninja mission, I need to make sure to send the guy dressed like a ninja. I'm designing a RPG game in Gamer Tycoon, I have to make sure the plot specialist is assigned to that one, but I only have 2 projects going concurrently, so it's not very taxing. This game, I have like 30 projects rolling concurrently, no one at the company knows what is going on, least of all me. Team 1 is, I don't even know who or what they are supposed to do, and I cobbled them out of "anyone found not working at 9:20 on a Monday" so this is like Team Useless up in here as led by the fearless Useless CEO. --look, it's not a great game at present, but it has some charm, and I think it has potential for maybe more strategic depth than Gamer Tycoon but it's not coming together at the moment. --I have basically no control over which applicants are available each month, and like 80% of them are NOT the only primary job type I hire (Junior Dev). Weirdly, I get more QA Testers than Junior Devs, which is unfortunate because pretty much every QA Tester is interchangeable, so there's no need to get more than one of them in a hiring batch. Suggestion to Actual Dev: offer players the ability to pay to reroll the applicant stack or let applicants know which job types you ACTUALLY need. --The songs are fine but strangely ill-matched to gameplay. It sounds like a 1990s beat-em-up, which would be great for a 1-2 hour beat em up game, but is not a great fit for a genre where I think the player is meant to do long playthroughs. It'd be like doing a Final Fantasy playthrough with ONLY the boss music rolling the entire time. Great for the first five minutes, but the nonstop hard jam never stops and gets very irritating.

J'aime se type de jeu, des améliorations sont a voir. Mais si le développeur est actif, sa fonctionne bien. Par ailleurs, j'ai voulu rejoindre le discord mais sa me dis que le liens n'est plus valide.

Pros: - The starting economic puzzle really sucks you in. The first few hours, when you have to juggle hiring cheap Basic/Fortran programmers, optimizing your staff for parallel projects, and the risk of bankruptcy, give you a true resource-management feel. It's genuinely satisfying to play the strategist, literally calculating every hundred bucks. Cons: - The gameplay dies off as early as March 1980 (you start on January 1, 1980). As soon as you find a working formula (no freelancers, only cheap hires), the game turns into an endless clicker. You do the same thing for hours on end. - Terrible pacing. In 10 real-time hours, you barely reach 1983, even though your progress is already fully stable. After that, it's 500 more hours of the same repetitive actions with zero evolution. The artificial stretching kills any interest. - Awkward project cap. With 9 employees, you can handle at most 4 projects, which feels too few, but expanding to 12 makes management clunky and uncomfortable. Verdict: Initially I did not recommend this game because of the monotony after the first few hours, but I have changed my mind. The developer is actively improving the project, and I believe the mechanics will soon be fixed, making the game excellent. If you are willing to tolerate the current flaws for the potential that future updates will unlock, then I do recommend giving it a chance. P.S. I also stumbled upon the achievement for fixing 1000 bugs. Getting it is not just hard, it is downright unrealistic. The catch is that as your character levels up, all programs are written perfectly, without a single bug. To accumulate a thousand errors, you would have to deliberately mess up the testing mini-games and give wrong answers. The problem is that such test questions appear about once every 5 minutes. That means you would need roughly 5000 minutes of pure gameplay just to unlock that achievement. --- Плюсы: - Стартовая экономическая головоломка действительно затягивает. Первые часы, когда нужно балансировать между наймом дешёвых программистов на Basic/Fortran, оптимизацией штата под параллельные проекты и риском банкротства, дарят настоящее ощущение ресурс-менеджмента. Приятно почувствовать себя стратегом, буквально просчитывая каждую сотню. Минусы: - Геймплей умирает уже к марту 1980 году (начинаем 1 января 1980). Как только вы находите рабочую схему (никаких фрилансеров, только дешёвые сотрудники), игра превращается в бесконечный кликер. Вы делаете одно и то же часами. - Чудовищная затянутость. За 10 часов реального времени вы едва добираетесь до 1983 года, хотя прогресс уже полностью стабилен. Дальше - 500 часов аналогичных действий без развития. Искусственное растягивание контента убивает интерес. - Неудобное ограничение по проектам. При 9 сотрудниках вы ведёте максимум 4 проекта - это мало, а расширение до 12 делает управление громоздким и некомфортным. Вердикт: Изначально я не рекомендовал эту игру из-за монотонности после первых часов, но изменил своё мнение. Разработчик активно дорабатывает проект, и я верю, что скоро механики будут исправлены и игра станет превосходной. Если вы готовы потерпеть текущие недостатки ради потенциала, который раскроется в будущих обновлениях, то рекомендую дать шанс. P.S. Ещё наткнулся на достижение за 1000 исправленных багов. Получить его не то что невозможно, а просто нереально сложно. Фишка в том, что с прокачкой персонажа все программы пишутся идеально, без единого бага. Чтобы накопить тысячу ошибок, придётся специально косячить в мини-играх с тестированием и давать неправильные ответы. Проблема в том, что такие тестовые вопросы появляются примерно раз в 5 минут. То есть вам понадобится около 5000 минут чистого геймплея, чтобы выбить это достижение.

Ein echtes Highlight für Tycoon-Fans! Ich habe Code Tycoon jetzt eine Weile gespielt und bin wirklich begeistert. Das Spielprinzip macht unglaublich viel Spaß und die verschiedenen Management-Mechaniken greifen wunderbar sauber ineinander über. Besonders hervorzuheben ist auch der Entwickler: Er ist super nah an der Community, reagiert extrem schnell auf Feedback und geht absolut offensiv auf Wünsche und Anregungen der Spieler ein. Fazit: Ein rundum gelungenes, motivierendes Spiel mit Herz, das durch den engen Austausch mit dem Entwickler nur noch besser wird – absolute Kaufempfehlung!

超シンプルな経営ゲーム。 20分もあればゲームの全体像を把握しプレイができるので他の経営管理ゲームよりもとっつきやすい。 プログラミング言語を知っている必要はなく、時たま問題が出てくるけど答えられなくても問題ないし、ゲームの本質じゃない。ただ過去から現代まで様々なプログラミング言語やアーキテクチャが登場するので、ある程度知識があるほうが楽しみやすいと思う。バックグラウンドで動画や音声を鑑賞しながらプレイするのにおすすめ。

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Je ne rédige pas souvent d'évaluations Steam, mais Code Tycoon mérite largement la sienne. Au premier abord, on pourrait croire à un simple jeu de gestion de société informatique. Pourtant, après plusieurs dizaines d'heures de jeu, on découvre une profondeur de gameplay bien plus importante qu'il n'y paraît. Chaque mécanique finit par avoir un véritable intérêt : le recrutement, la formation des employés, le mentorat, la maintenance, les contrats, les mises à jour des produits ou encore l'évolution des technologies. Plus l'entreprise grandit, plus ces systèmes interagissent entre eux. L'un des aspects que j'apprécie le plus est la gestion de la maintenance. Au début, elle peut sembler contraignante, mais dès que l'on met en place une véritable équipe dédiée, on comprend toute la logique du jeu. On ne progresse pas en cliquant davantage, mais en organisant efficacement son entreprise. J'apprécie également la progression technologique. Débloquer de nouveaux langages de programmation pousse à anticiper les besoins futurs plutôt qu'à simplement répondre aux demandes du moment. C'est une mécanique qui donne une vraie sensation d'évolution au fil des années. Le développeur mérite aussi d'être mis en avant. J'ai eu l'occasion d'échanger avec lui sur Steam puis sur Discord à plusieurs reprises. Il est très réactif, à l'écoute des retours de la communauté et plusieurs bugs que j'ai signalés ont été corrigés très rapidement. Il prend également le temps de discuter des idées d'amélioration avec les joueurs, ce qui devient malheureusement assez rare aujourd'hui. Le jeu n'est évidemment pas parfait. Certaines fonctionnalités gagneraient encore à évoluer, notamment la gestion des équipes et l'automatisation lorsque l'entreprise devient importante. Mais justement, c'est ce qui me rend confiant : le développement continue activement et chaque mise à jour apporte son lot d'améliorations. Je tiens également à souligner un point qui me paraît important : le développeur a clairement annoncé qu'il refusait les microtransactions. Le jeu est pensé comme une expérience complète, avec éventuellement des extensions à l'avenir, mais sans boutique intégrée. C'est suffisamment rare pour être mentionné. Si vous aimez les jeux de gestion qui récompensent la réflexion, l'organisation et la planification sur le long terme, je vous recommande vivement Code Tycoon. Je suis d'ailleurs en train de rédiger un guide complet en français tellement j'ai apprécié découvrir toutes les mécaniques du jeu.

초반에는 버그가 좀 있었는데 디스코드로 개발자분께 말씀드리니 바로 수정해 주셨어요. 이렇게 빠르게 피드백을 반영해 주는 경우는 처음이라 신기했습니다. 이런 류의 게임을 좋아해서 운영도 전반적으로 어렵지 않고 만족스럽습니다. 다만 오랜 시간 할 게임은 아닌 것 같습니다.