Game Dev Tycoon Best Design Training

There are two kinds of training options in the game. Most of the training options available are there to increase your employee's stats. Several other options allow you to learn abilities, specialisations or unlock special features.

1 Training your stats
- 1.1 Book Studies (version 1.4.3)
- 1.2 Practice, Practice, Practice
- 1.3 Teach and Learn
2 Specialized training
- 2.1 Management
- 2.2 Unique training options for business owner
- 2.3 Specialization training

Training your stats

You unlock your first set of stat training options when you move from the garage, your second set of training options when you upgrade your computer (2nd office), and you unlock the last set of training options when you move to your final office. Please note that each stat training tier does have a cap on it. Increase beyond this cap is still possible but will be subject to severe diminishing returns.

Also note that there is a diminishing returns system for training overall.

If you repeat the same (stat) training in quick succession, you will get very small results from this attempt
If you repeat a different (stat) training in quick succession, you will get smaller results from this attempt

Case study:

When in third office I had two training sessions, one after a long time spent without training, and another after making an AAA MMO Title (takes a bit less than a year I think). In both sessions I trained each employee 3 times using 30RP options. I recorded results for each employee and calculated averages across the board. By the way, training seems to be a flat increase, not a percentile one.

In first session, I trained Design or Tech, then Research, then Speed. Average results were 55, 33, 32.

In second session, I trained Research, then Design or Tech, then Speed. Average results were 46, 28, 30

From this experiment I can conclude that consequent training in different stats do not get progressively diminishing returns, instead all training sessions after first just provide slightly lower results (about 2/3 of the potential). It cannot be said for sure, but I suppose that an employee's "succeptibility" to training regenerates fully over a period of about a year, and since I trained for the second time sooner than a year, my second results were slightly lower across the board (55 vs 46 for first session, 33 vs 29 for consequent ones).

It also seems that making a very successful game (with 3 tens for example) will influence how well someone trains. I had just made a 10/10/10/9 game in which one of my employees was 95% focused on Graphics. When I trained that employee in Design (using the Game Design Course from Teach and Learn), Design went up with precisely 100 points.

Finally, different training options available in the game are presented below.

Book Studies (version 1.4.3)

This training tier is capped at 500.

Training	Cost	Benefit
Game Dev Gems	5RP, 15K cr.	++ Design, ++ Technology, + Research, + Speed
Make Me Think!	5RP, 15K cr.	+++ Research, + Technology, + Design, + Speed
Game Design for Pirates	5RP, 15K cr.	+++ Design, + Technology, + Research
Don't Repeat Yourself	5RP, 15K cr.	+++ Speed, + Research, + Technology, + Design
Code Incomplete	5RP, 15K cr.	+++ Technology, + Design, + Research

Practice, Practice, Practice

This training tier is capped at 700.

Training	Cost	Benefit
G3 Pixel Cup	10RP, 70k cr.	+ Design
G3 Code Jam	10RP, 70k cr.	+ Technology
G3 Game Jam	10RP, 70k cr.	+ Design, + Technology
G3 Time Trials	10RP, 70k cr.	+ Speed (Large Amount) + Research (Small Amount)
G3 Innovation Challenge	10RP, 70k cr.	+ Research

Teach and Learn

This training tier is capped at 900.

Training	Cost	Benefit
Game Design Course	30RP, 140k cr.	85% Design 10% Technology 5% Research
Programming Course	30RP, 140k cr.	95% Technology 5% Design
Product Management Course	30RP, 140k cr.	90% Speed 10% Research
R&D Course	30RP, 140k cr.	100% Research

Specialized training [ ]

Management [ ]

Training	Cost	Benefit
Staff Management	0RP, 25K cr.	Main character one time only. Allows hiring employees.

Unique training options for business owner [ ]

Training	Cost	Benefit
Staff Welcome Training	0RP, 10K cr.	Employees one time only (each). Increases Efficiency from 0.05 upto 0.28

Specialization training [ ]

(tbd - both for game development and research/tech labs)

To specialize in a specific slider you will need to meet required levels of design and technology. Specialization costs 200 research point and 5M credits per person. Also staff has to be at Level 7 or higher.

Slider Specialization Requirements:
Slider	Design	Technology
Engine	180	720
Gameplay	720	180
Story/Quests	720	180
Dialogues	810	90
Level Design	360	540
AI	180	720
World Design	540	360
Graphics	450	450
Sound	540	360