Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story
DarkKnight · 2021 · Simulation, Cute, Story Rich, Singleplayer, Casual
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About Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story
Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story is a life simulation and management game that invites you to experience the life of a game developer: start from scratch as a one-man studio and take off from there to become a successful game producer in a 3 years-long journey!
Experience the trials and tribulations of this hard job on your own and, also, supervising a small team where everyone counts on your organization and leadership skills. Work hard every day to develop a successful game that catapults you to the stardom of games in a reasonable time.
As the leader of your studio (sometimes caricatured as a talking cat) you have to organize its members’ work – but also care about your own welfare. It’s easy to forget the world when you’re developing a game, so make sure your developer eats, sleeps, exercises his body and has fun, so his physical and mental health doesn’t suffer.
But even when you’re living the dream of being a game developer, there’s more to life than work: you’ll meet people while hanging around, and it will be up to you if you work on your personal skills to be likable enough, and if you want to dig deeper into their lives and stories. You decide what kind of game producer you want to be in this slice-of-life story!
Experience the trials and tribulations of this hard job on your own and, also, supervising a small team where everyone counts on your organization and leadership skills. Work hard every day to develop a successful game that catapults you to the stardom of games in a reasonable time.
As the leader of your studio (sometimes caricatured as a talking cat) you have to organize its members’ work – but also care about your own welfare. It’s easy to forget the world when you’re developing a game, so make sure your developer eats, sleeps, exercises his body and has fun, so his physical and mental health doesn’t suffer.
But even when you’re living the dream of being a game developer, there’s more to life than work: you’ll meet people while hanging around, and it will be up to you if you work on your personal skills to be likable enough, and if you want to dig deeper into their lives and stories. You decide what kind of game producer you want to be in this slice-of-life story!
KEY FEATURES
- Take decisions in game development. What art style fits your vision better for the game? Which music suits the mood and setting? You’ll need to take a lot of decisions and work hard to push the game forward and make it shine so the audience notices it.
- Keep learning! Lots of different skills are involved in developing a game: programming, game design, music, art… In Vertical Slice, you can develop any game you want -- as long as you have the skills required to do it, so keep learning and improve your skills to make the game of your dreams!
- Find a way to make money. Making games takes a lot of money: food, rent, study, and of course your team’s salaries are all essential parts of the budget. What will you do to fund your project? You can accept outsourcing contracts to make some quick money, and once your game is released, there are different ways for you to increase your revenue…
- Build a talented team. Hire staff to help you develop the game, filling your ranks with talent in areas such as programming, narrative design, game design, art, music… But you’ll have to take budget restrains into account -- you can’t hire an all-star team if you can’t afford to pay them!
- There’s more to games than work! After work, you can hang out with friends and meet new people from different industries. Be nice with them -- you never know who will be in the position to help you in the future!
- Endless mode: a new feature added now on full release, Endless Mode is a sandbox experience that keeps going after you’ve ended the 3-years long story mode. Keep working as a studio leader, create more games and earn more money to write your name in golden letters in the history of games!
What Steam players say
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have fun playing this with the broken english5 found this helpful
我没去过咖啡馆，然后北少是谁，为啥来我家。第二次和小寒聊天，你想做教练？(我怎么不知道还有这事？)。室友跑路了，结果还能触发在家里对话的剧情。4 found this helpful
Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story, developed by DarkKnight and published by 2P Games, is a management and life-simulation hybrid that explores the often-romanticized yet deeply challenging world of independent game development. Rather than focusing purely on spreadsheets or abstract business metrics, the game attempts to humanize the process of building a studio from the ground up. You step into the shoes of an aspiring developer with limited resources, grand ambitions, and only a few short years to turn creative dreams into commercial success. The result is a blend of strategic planning, personal time management, and narrative-driven interactions that seeks to capture both the logistical and emotional realities of making games. At its core, Vertical Slice: A Game Dev Story revolves around balancing productivity with sustainability. Each in-game day presents decisions about how to allocate your limited time and energy. You might spend hours coding new features, designing levels, polishing art assets, composing music, or managing finances. At the same time, your character has personal needs that cannot be ignored. Fatigue, hunger, stress, and morale directly influence performance, f…1 found this helpful
这个游戏还是挺好玩的，npc有各自的故事和背景，互动了会慢慢了解他们，独立开发者前期需要从零开始（各种意义上）的艰难也表现得蛮好的，玩的时候是EA游戏，所以有一些bug什么的在所难免，期待完整版的游戏还有后续的DLC等
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