 Game Dev Story Guide ✍
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There are a total of 8 different careers, with different pros and cons. Some require specific unlock conditions, but all employees start of with some job.
Changing Careers
To switch careers, take a single chosen employee and use Research Points to promote him or her to Level 5 in his or her current career. Next, use a Career Change Manual to move that employee into a new career. You can repeat this several times. To unlock some careers, you must have level 5 in multiple careers on the same employee; having 2 separate employees with differant careers at level 5 does not count. Career Change Manuals are sold by the Salesman who visits once a year.
Even if you hire someone with a good career, such as a hacker, they do not necessarily have level 5 in all lower careers, so if you want them to have high stats, you may wish to go back to a lower career and train it.
Hardware Engineer
Creating a Hardware Engineer requires one employee (of any type) and several Career Change Manuals.
Hardware Engineers have a special bonus that unlock certain console parts when you have a certain number of them in your team:
- Potato Chip (CPU) - must have 4 hardware engineers on your team.
- Punch Card - (Media) - must have 6 hardware engineers on your team.
You can find more about making a console here.
Career List
Start careers are do not always meet prerequisite conditions listed below. Except for the hardware engineer, every career below can be a possible start career (the career an employee has when hired).
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| Coder | ∅ | Debugging | + | + | + | + | ++ | Focuses on Coding Stat |
| Writer | ∅ | Proposal | ++ | ++ | + | + | + | Focuses on Scenario Stat |
| Designer | ∅ | Alpha | + | ++ | ++ | + | + | Focuses on Graphics Stat |
| Snd. Eng. | ∅ | Beta | + | ++ | + | ++ | + | Focuses on Sound Stat |
| Director | Level 5 Coder and Writer | Proposal & Debugging |
+++ | +++ | + | + | +++ | Needed for Hardware Engineer |
| Producer | Level 5 Designer and Snd.Eng. | Alpha & Beta | + | +++ | +++ | +++ | + | Needed for Hardware Engineer |
| Hard. Eng. | Level 5 Director and Producer | Console Creation | + | +++ | + | + | +++ | Needed to create new consoles. Only Chimpman Z. Force starts with this career. |
| Hacker | Level 5 Everything | All | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | +++ | Very high stats for everything. The downsides are their cost and that they cannot be used to create a console. |
Coder
Coders are one of the four basic staff members, and is also one of the first staff members type the player will have (Newb Ownerton). The Coder cannot be used for anything else than adding statistics points during development.
Coders have high points in Program.
Writer
Writers are one of the four basic staff members, and is also one the first staff member types the player has.
Writers are good in Scenario and can write the game proposal.
Designer
Designers are one of the four basic staff members.
They are good at Graphics, and can design the game graphics.
Snd. Eng.
Sound Engineers (Snd. Eng.) are one of the four basic staff members.
They are good in Sound, and can compose the soundtrack for games.
Director
Directors are one of the Tier 2 staff members; they are a combination of a Writer and a Coder. They have a high Contract fee and Salary.
They share skills of Writers and Coders, but also have higher stats in Graphics and Sound. They can write the game proposal, like the Writer.
Producer
Producers are one of the Tier 2 staff members; they are a combination of a designer and a sound engineer
Hard. Eng.
Hardware Engineers (Hardware Eng.) have high stats for Program and Scenario, but low stats for Sound and Graphics. They are required to make your own console.
Hacker
Hackers are the highest performing employee in Game Dev Story; they have the talent of a Coder, Writer, Designer, & Snd. Eng. Compared to other careers, the salary of a hacker is much higher.