New Look

After the positive feedback in forum I decided to give the other menus a makeover as well. I hope you like the new style.











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Of course, none of this is final, but I think you get the idea...

Office Screen Re-Design

Initially I just wanted to make the news inbox a little bit prettier, but then I thought "Why not go all the way?", so I gave the entire Home Screen a make-over. 
What do you guys think? Should I use this "realistic" style for the other menus as well or should I keep it simple?



Tell me in the comments or head over to the forum.

More Events

After finally figuring out how to customize the windows message box (a lot harder than it sounds and than I thought it would be), I added a few more events to the game. Some of them require a decision from the player. Most of the events and decisions you make will influence the movies stats in one way or another.

Here are a few screenshots:









I want to add a whole bunch of them to keep gameplay from getting repetitious.

As always, you input and ideas are welcome. Help me out and post you event ideas in this thread:

http://filmstudiotycoon.proboards.com/thread/4/event-ideas

Movie Ratings and a teeny-tiny update on TV Shows

I finally got around to adding a basic but essential Feature: Movie Ratings. I took awhile, because I added and changed a lot of the code related to a movies quality and success. 

Each movie now has three important "scores": Quality, Mass Appeal and Artistic Value.
These three scores are influenced by a lot of variables and stats (Genre, Script, Writer, Actors, Director, Budget).
When a movie is released it get's two ratings, one from movie critics and one from the viewers. The critics rating is influenced more by the artistic value of a movie while the viewer rating depends more on the movies mass appeal. Quality is equally important.





In other news: Work on TV Shows continues. There are still my miles to go, but the "groundwork" is almost done.





These two screenshots look very unspectacular, but code wise they mean a lot. Producing a TV Show is now possible (bare bones though). The next step is writing the code for calculating the success and ratings of a TV show.