Archive for November, 2005

The Movies

Just a quick session. (By which I mean about an hour and a half.)

It’s become less interesting now that I know what’s going on, but it’s still compulsive. I just had what could have been my first three star movie get let down by a bad script and an overused set. Grrr.

And I still haven’t got any of my stars have any sort of friendships yet. Some of them have know each thirty years, for pity’s sake!

I’ve just written my own sci-fi epic, but the people I want in it are either working on a cheapo action flick I’m making to introduce a new star or so stressed out after the last movie that I daren’t put them to work. Time for some relaxation time for my stars. I wish they’d stop complaining about their bloody trailers. I’m doing what I can, damn it!

Apart from the odd script design, I’m definitely concentrating on the management game, rather than the movie-making tools right now, which is slightly unexpected.

The Movies

May I present to you my sweeping epic love story… Tenderspirit.

So beautiful. I believe it may forever remain my masterpiece.

The Movies

I didn’t mean to buy this today…

I think I’m glad I did. It just made three and a half hours disappear like nothing, though. When a game does that I’m really not sure if it’s very, very good or very, very bad.

I’ve basically been doing things at random, feeling my way through the game. The management aspects I’ve got down, more or less, but the movie-making aspects I’m still learning. I only just unlocked the post-production tools and haven’t tested them out yet. But I’ve also unlocked some sort of colour film, which is cool.

I’m currently taking a break in the middle of trying to change my studio from one which churns out tons and tons of crap to one which actually makes half-decent movies. Not sure if that’s possible yet, but I’m going to give my actors and directors time to calm down between films and relax a bit. They’ve been throwing tantrums a lot lately, but new trailers and some pay raises seem to have helped. I’ve got a script that I worked on myself – it’s a sci-fi epic! – ready to go when everyone’s recovered a bit from the frenzied bought of low-budget film-making I’ve put them through.

So, anyway, the latest movie to be released by my studio, Romero Pictures, is The Quiet Gun – and if you click on the name you should be able to watch it. It even works on my Mac!

Gunstar Super Heroes

Moon 2.

There’s a vertically scrolling shooter section.

Normally, that’s my favourite style of game IN THE WORLD EVER.

But I just can’t get past this bit. Grr.