I've been playing The Movies: Stunts and Effects on and off for the last 5-10 years or so because it's just a ridiculously good game despite it's age. After playing Planet Coaster and Planet Zoo recently as well I couldn't help but wonder what a Frontier version of that kind of game would be like, especially with how updated gaming tech has come since that games release (2005).
For those that don't know, The Movies is a game released in 2005 (by the same people who made Fable I believe?) where you create your own movie making studio lot starting in the year 1920. You hire actors and directors, crew, extras, builders and janitors, writers, etc, and proceed to make movies up until 2005-2010 (though there isn't a limit on how many years you go). The normal process was that you'd create the script yourself in a Custom Scriptmaking Office, or have your writer make one, of a certain genre, then you'd start rehearsing it and decide the cast (the director, the Main Actors/Actresses, any extras, and it'd auto-grab any Crew it'd need). They'd then proceed to go to the various sets you've built that are part of their movie and record their scenes, all in the meanwhile relaxing in their trailers, getting make-overs, interacting with eachother for better relationships, etc etc. Once the movies done, you can watch it, see how it stacks up, and look at it's reviews when you release it, or if your further along the timeline PR it, put it through post production, and then release it.
The thing that made this game so major and popular however was the custom script making and post production however. Every set had tons of scenes you can choose from, and if you had the Stunts and Effects expansion there were even more that were stunts. You could make your own entire movies overall. Then putting it into Post Production allowed you to put subtitles on scenes, add actual dialogue taken from your microphone, insert music audio (including your own custom ones) and more. The quality and sheer amount of costumes, scenes in sets, props that you can place on the set or for actors to use, etc etc, made this game so much further along then most management games from back then.
I think it'd be awesome if there was a Planet Movies at some point, with their own take on that kind of thing!
For those that don't know, The Movies is a game released in 2005 (by the same people who made Fable I believe?) where you create your own movie making studio lot starting in the year 1920. You hire actors and directors, crew, extras, builders and janitors, writers, etc, and proceed to make movies up until 2005-2010 (though there isn't a limit on how many years you go). The normal process was that you'd create the script yourself in a Custom Scriptmaking Office, or have your writer make one, of a certain genre, then you'd start rehearsing it and decide the cast (the director, the Main Actors/Actresses, any extras, and it'd auto-grab any Crew it'd need). They'd then proceed to go to the various sets you've built that are part of their movie and record their scenes, all in the meanwhile relaxing in their trailers, getting make-overs, interacting with eachother for better relationships, etc etc. Once the movies done, you can watch it, see how it stacks up, and look at it's reviews when you release it, or if your further along the timeline PR it, put it through post production, and then release it.
The thing that made this game so major and popular however was the custom script making and post production however. Every set had tons of scenes you can choose from, and if you had the Stunts and Effects expansion there were even more that were stunts. You could make your own entire movies overall. Then putting it into Post Production allowed you to put subtitles on scenes, add actual dialogue taken from your microphone, insert music audio (including your own custom ones) and more. The quality and sheer amount of costumes, scenes in sets, props that you can place on the set or for actors to use, etc etc, made this game so much further along then most management games from back then.
I think it'd be awesome if there was a Planet Movies at some point, with their own take on that kind of thing!
