Quick Update: Box Office Details + Weekly Revenue

Today I have two improvements to report:

Both are shown on this picture:



1. As promised, I added the option to look at the details of the Top 10 movies. Is that enough or do you want more information about the plot etc.?

2. "This Week's Top 10" now actually means this week's top 10. Movies no longer generate all their income at once. Instead the income is now calculated on a weekly basis. 
Most of a movies revenue is made during the opening week, after that the numbers (usually) decline. Once the profit is below a certain number, the movie will no longer be played in cinemas.

What's next? The next three big features I want to work on are relationships between artists, an event system and... TV Shows. It would probably make sense to takle TV Shows now, but I'm still uncertain how exactly they should work.

Quick Update: AI Studios + The Box Office

I've made some good progress on two major features, so it's time for another Update.

First: I improved the Box Office Menu. I removed the simple ListBox I used before and added something a little more fancy:



The Title is a little misleading. I'm still working on the week by week revenue mechanic, so this is actually an all-time-top-10.

Anyway...this picture shows something even more interesting than the box office numbers: All of these movies were released by AI Studios. I finally started working on the AI mechanic! 
So far the Intelligence Part of the Artificial Intelligence is a bit of a stretch, because right now pretty much everything about these AI Studio Movies is completely random. Of course I will work on this for the next couple of weeks, so the "decisions" made by the AI Studios will feel more realistic.
I'm pretty proud of my progress anyway. 
It's especially nice to see the filmographies fill up:





AI Casting is still completely random as well, but I will soon implement a mechanic that will make sure famous actors will get cast more often and in bigger parts.

That's it for now. I hope you like what you see. 

Progress Report

I had a pretty tough work schedule, so I couldn't work on Film Studio Tycoon as much as I would have liked, but I still got a few things done:

- Expanded the database (more actors, more titles, more topics, more source material)
- Included marketing budget and focus into the calculations for a movies success
- Did some minor fixes on the UI 
- Add a pointless but neat looking Movie Premiere Screen
- Started working on the Top 10 Box Office mechanic and menu
- Added the option to generate a random Movie Script in the script menu 

Nothing breathtaking, but still progress, right? 

I have a couple of days off next week so I will probably/hopefully start working on AI Studios, so you have someone to compete against.

Quick Update: Film Ratings

I implemented the rating system!

It's based on the American MPAA film rating system. The game look at the amount of violence and sex and the themes.

Each topic you can pick in the script-writing-menu has a rating attached. For example: Something like "Dogs" has an G Rating, while "Bullying" has PG-13 and "Serial Killer" would be an R.

The highest value of the three is the deciding factor, so even if your movie is about dogs and treasure hunting and has no sex scenes at all, but has "Gore Galore" violence, it will still get an NC-17 Rating.

The Rating will obviously influence who will watch you movie. While you might loose the children or teen viewer group completely, adults will be more drawn to more mature movies with higher ratings.

I also did some work on the Release Menu so you can see the ratings in action: