Game Dev Tycoon

book User's Guides to Popular Culture How to Play Video Games

by Casey O’Donnell

Abstract: Game Dev Tycoon is a resource management game about running a video game design studio. In this chapter, Casey O’Donnell examines what a game about making games teaches us about this form of creative labor and what it fails to convey about the trials and tribulations of game development.

This essay may be found on page 193 of the printed volume.