game-dev-tycoon
During development of larger and more complex games, you get to assign your programmers based on their strengths. The amount of time they spend on their assigned parts of the game is shown as an accumulative number as you can see on the right of this screenshot:
Having this number above 100% doesn't seem to have any damaging effects, from what I have seen. What are the effects of overworking or overloading an employee?
There are a very large amount of Great Combinations. Game Dev Tycoon shares most of its Great Combinations with Game Dev Story. An incomplete list follows:
Seemingly not - for testing I did the following;
Got to development stage 3 for my new game, which presents a screen as below to assign programmers to World Design, Graphics, and Sound:
As you can see above, I have assigned employees to each area and the only one outstanding currently is Graphics - James E. Garmack. Garmack has the lowest work speed of all three of my employees, so I then moved everybody around a bit without changing any other settings on the screen:
As you can see, the amount of work that will be completed doesn't change. For reference, these are the stats of my employees:
Best Answer
1) If you over-work them you don't get a bonus XP modifier. That xp affects your technology so if you have a lot of research points and want to progress as fast as possible, you need the XP bonus.
2) It drains a lot of extra stamina. For example: Employee just came back from vacation, should last a long time before the next vacation, if you force 200% out of him / her, the stamina would start depleting almost right then and there. You also lose the bonus XP (before publishing the game)
If I find anything else, I'll edit.