Gamedev Beatdown

Gamedev Beatdown is a short game about life as a game developer. You play as a member of a development team, making decisions on everyday issues; if you win the arguments, your choices are implemented, while losing can send the game and studio in a direction you did not choose.

Build your career

Start as an indie developer and work your way up from arcade-style games to full-fledged AAA releases. Move to new studio locations and hire people as you progress through the industry. Different locations unlock unique games to develop.

Decisions and management

You weigh in on decisions from different departments and deal with real, real-adjacent and fabricated day-to-day problems faced by game developers. Manage employee happiness and tactical crunch times to maximize productivity. Your choices have consequences for the games and studio.

Projects and progression

The game uses procedural roguelite progression. Stress tolerance, which functions as health in combat, persists between projects, so you need to think beyond each individual battle. Games you release become evolving mini-games: they can look better or unlock functionality when released with higher stats.