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In Game Dev Story, sales are boosted when you develop a game with a great Genre/Type combination.

What combinations are considered great? In other words, which ones result in the game informing you that the combination will impact sales in a positive manner?

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  • 9
    Add birds, make them angry.
    – DrFish
    Feb 15, 2011 at 17:12
  • 3
    Perhaps Angrily Jumping Doodle Birds?
    – Kevin Yap
    Feb 15, 2011 at 17:27
  • 3
    I think Game Dev Story was written just to confuse those of us who read gaming.stackexchange.com and gamedev.stackexchange.com!
    – Wikwocket
    Feb 15, 2011 at 18:45
  • @Kevin: Even better laughs
    – DrFish
    Feb 16, 2011 at 9:15
  • I was about to come and angrily vote to close. I'm trying hard to incorporate birds into the post, but that would be jumping too far. As for doodle, I just can't do it. Feb 20, 2011 at 5:10

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Community Wiki

Because this answer will be one of constant discovery by myself (and possibly other helpful users), I've made this answer a Community Wiki answer. Anyone with the rights to edit it should feel free to contribute based on personal experience or other sourced information. Please make an effort to keep the list in alphabetical order for the sake of easy reference. :)

Key

  • Best Combinations - 'Amazing' according to the game
  • Good Combinations - 'Not bad' according to the game
  • Positive - Unknown what the game indicates exactly but they were mentioned to be positive combinations

List

  • Action
    • Ninja
    • Robot
    • Samurai
    • Sumo
  • Adventure
    • Cowboy
    • Detective
    • Fantasy
    • Mushroom
    • Mystery
    • Pirate
  • Audio Novel
    • Detective
    • Historical
    • Horror
    • Mystery
    • Romance
  • Board
    • Checkers
    • Chess
  • Life
    • Animal
    • Dating
    • Mushroom
    • Pop Star
    • Swimsuit
  • Motion
    • Dance
    • Fitness
    • Mini-skirt
    • Ping Pong
    • Volleyball
  • Music
    • Drums
    • Movies
    • Pop Star
  • Online RPG
    • Dungeon
    • Fantasy
    • Game Co.
    • Medieval
    • Dungeon
  • Online Sim
    • Architecture
    • Mushroom
    • Stocks
  • Puzzle
    • Reversi
    • Word
  • Racing
    • F1 Racing
    • Marathon
    • Motorsport
    • Snowboard
    • Swimming
  • RPG
    • Dungeon
    • Fantasy
    • Medieval
    • Mushroom
  • Shooter
    • Ninja
    • Robot
    • War
  • Simulation
    • Architecture
    • Dating
    • Game Co.
    • Golf
    • Lawyer
    • Movies
    • Mushroom
    • Romance
    • Stocks
    • Town
    • Train
    • Virtual Pet
    • Soccer
  • Table
    • Checkers
    • Mahjong
  • Trivia
    • Movies
    • Mushroom

Sources

Some items on this list were compiled from other sources:

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  • I love Mushroom Life games too!
    – Kevin Yap
    Feb 15, 2011 at 17:27
  • I have no objection to you making your answers CW, but I would suggest you not start answers out as CW. There have been a number of times I've written answers and made them CW, only to be the sole contributor.
    – tzenes
    Feb 15, 2011 at 17:28
  • +1: Remember, the popularity of the combinations still depend on the randomly assigned "Popularity Rating" so if you make a game from a good (but unpopular) combination you're not going to sell well. Feb 15, 2011 at 17:35
  • @tzenes: That's a good point. I suppose I can always just make things CW in the future either by triggering the edit threshold or marking them when I see tons of comments about alterations.
    – Shaun
    Feb 15, 2011 at 18:00
  • @tzenes: CW-ifying an answer also enables low-rep users to make edits, which is good if you want to encourage collaboration.
    – Brant
    Feb 15, 2011 at 19:48

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