The irony of it all - or brazenness, or chutzpah, or whatever you want to call it - is that Game Dev Tycoon is, itself, one giant rip-off of another game. Anyone playing a cracked version of Game Dev Tycoon’s would eventually find their in-game game studio hit by pirates, who would illegally download all the studio’s releases and eat away at its profits. After all, they gained some fame a few months ago when they revealed that their game’s anti-piracy measure was…well, piracy. I’ll say this for the makers of Game Dev Tycoon: they’ve got chutzpah.