Badges

Game Dev Life offers several achievements to earn to be able to challenge players to progress through. Here's what GDL currently offers:

Amateur
"'You reached Level 5 - good job!'"

Earning this badge is relatively easy, it requires the player to reach level 5 by gaining enough XP.

First Game!
"'You made your first game - congrats! This is the start of your dev career...'"

Earning this badge can be done simply by developing a game through your PC. Your first game will give you the badge.

Hire a worker!
"'You hired your first employee - carry on hiring until you're a massive company with a lot of employees!'"

Earning this badge can be done by simply having a setup available for workers, and then hiring a worker onto that computer.

Alpha Tester
"'Thanks for playing Game Dev Life in alpha! I hope you enjoyed it!'"

Earning this badge only requires the user to have purchased and played the game during its Alpha Stage.

100k Sales!
"'Wow.... 100k sales?!'"

Earning this badge requires the user to have earnt 100k sales in total.

50 Games!
"'50 GAMES! That's a lot - great job.'"

Earning this badge requires some dedication to be put. The user needs to do have developed and put on sale 50 games in total.

Overnight Success!
"'50k concurrent players overnight? Not bad :D Requires a lot of servers and a good game!'"

Earning this badge requires the user to have developed a game that has reached 50k concurrent players in a day, along with enough servers to support 50k concurrent players.

Note: This badge might be a reference to Badimo's 'Jailbreak', a game on Roblox that hit 50 thousand concurrent players on the day of release.

Expert!
"'You're an expert at this game - one of the hardest badges in the game and takes a long time to get - wow.... amazing job for reaching level 50!'"

Earning this badge requires the user to have an extreme dedication to the game. The user must have reached level 50 in order to get this badge. Congratulations to those who have it.

1 Million Sales!
"'1 Million Sales - that's insane!'"

Earning this badge requires the user to have reached 1 million total game sales.

10 Million Sales!
"'10 Million Sales?! You are extremely rich!!'"

Earning this badge requires the user to have reached 10 million total game sales. You can officially call yourself a pro if you earn this badge.

Gameception
"'Gameception... *cue mysterious music*'"​​​​

There is no information on this badge on how to obtain it. It's presumed to not have been implemented at the time of writing.

Note: It was rumored that you had to make a tycoon game named "Game Dev Life" to get this badge around the time of release.

Beta Tester!
"""'Thank you for helping to test Game Dev Life in Beta!'"



This badge requires the user to have played the game during its Beta stage of development.