Hollywood Movie Star Life Sim 9+

Great Game - Could be even Better

Absolutely love this game. I’ve played it a couple times, but at a certain point it becomes so easy that there’s no point continuing. I have some ideas for tweaks and other things that could make it more fun.

1. When you start investing in films, there should be more busts than hits. Right now I always make money when I invest in a film, but that’s rare in the real world.

2. Same for when you have a movie studio and you produce your own tv series and then everyone bids on it. What if no one bids on it because they don’t want it? It could make everything riskier.

3. Directors. Can you add famous “name” directors to the game? So that when you’re an aspiring actor, it’s really hard to get cast in one of their films, but could also alter your career? I think about your publishing game and how hard it is to get published by one of the Big Five. What is there were 5 big directors you need to get cast by? Same when it comes to studios. What are the 5 big studios you want to get cast by?

4. News stories. Can you add a feature where you have news stories announcing films or tv projects? You have it with the reviews (which is awesome!), but I think you could build out the world a bit to make it more fun. Think about the website Deadline. It would be cool to have pop up news stories about the new film by one of the big 5 directors. Or a news story about which film was nominated for 11 Oscars.

Has potential

Listen, I like this game. But I started over because I thought I had worked out how to improve my talents only to find that j was entirely wrong. The exponential increase to spending energy on talents, the energy cost of jobs, applying for auditions, and expending energy on improving your auditions/bookings only for it to make absolutely no difference in the end, and how frequently your energy decreases when you only start with a max of 100 in the first place, are frustrating. Oftentimes I’d find myself doing everything I could think of to increase my different talent scores only to see they haven’t budged, or there is at least no indication that they have budged. The tooltips and help aren’t very clear. I think it would greatly benefit this game if there were some tweaks to energy gained versus expended, max energy, and maybe making acting classes and auditioning/booking roles visibly improve talent scores instead of just experience. I wouldn’t mind an occasional option to watch an ad to boost something if I’m running out of time to boost performance on an audition or something, even.

Great at first until you reach billionaire

Enjoyable at first. Grinding and trying to maximize energy spending every week is quite addicting. Finding that perfect talent agent or manager is awesome as they really help with progression. Don’t wait too long to build up your talent points or you won’t score those better gigs.

The director addition was a good idea, however, it feels like it’s missing some additional sliders that players can adjust to improve or worsen the outcome of the movie. Maybe allow the player to choose equipment, producers, camera men etc., or the ability to create scenes for your movies. Some additional events would be cool too. Things that a player must choose that will affect different aspects. And as others have said, once you get to a certain point, there is nothing else to purchase and with the new cap on directing/creating movies, doesn’t give much incentive for players who have put in work and invested real money to even play anymore. Just a few ideas! Thanks for the game!

Developer Response ,

Appreciate the feedback and great tips! Thanks for playing! - Jon