Over Priced.
Response from developer
Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. Really glad the foundation is resonating — there's a lot more depth to uncover as your agency grows, but your feedback on content pacing is noted and we're already working on new features that will give you more to pursue long term. The game is a premium release with no ads and no in-app purchases, so everything you see is everything you paid for — and there's more on the way. Hope you'll stick around for the updates.
Favorite game, some bugs
Some bugs I’ve found though: it is possible for an actor to be cast in multiple roles for the same movie (had this happen multiple times).
When clicking negotiate, even to accept the offered money for a role, the offer is sometimes WAY less than it started with. For example, the offer email will say $40,000 but when you click negotiate to accept it, it might now say $7,000. Not all the time, but often enough to notice.
The game is based off of a 52-week year, but when you look at a player’s calendar, it lists four weeks per month. Which equals 48, so four of the weeks are missing from an actor’s calendar.
Roster limit seems to be 15 but I was able to sign way more than that without issue (other than their weekly cost).
As far as things I’d love to add — info about a project in an actor’s filmography (genre? Big budget? Broadway versus community theater?) these things are listed when you first submit for the project, but are long forgotten by the time the project comes out.
Also, an ability to see if an actor should be going for 1 star projects or 5 star.
Response from developer
Thank you so much for this — genuinely one of the most useful reviews we've received and we're really glad you're enjoying it. On the bugs — all four are on our radar. The duplicate casting issue is already being monitored, the negotiation offer discrepancy is a known issue we're fixing, the 48 vs 52 week calendar is a great catch we hadn't spotted ourselves, and the roster cap enforcement is something we're actively deciding on. On the filmography — you're absolutely right that the data exists at submission and should persist more richly. Richer project entries with genre, budget tier and more are coming in a future update. Every actor also has a heat star rating that corresponds directly to project star ratings — a 3-star actor should be targeting 3-star projects. As their momentum grows so does their ceiling. Hope that helps in the meantime. Thank you again for taking the time. This is exactly the kind of feedback that makes the game better.
The game is not bad
Response from developer
Thank you for the feedback. More features are already in the pipeline and we're actively working on updates that will give you more to do between advances. On the money system — noted. The intention is that lean periods early in your agency's life should feel pressured, but we hear you that it can tip into feeling unfair rather than challenging. We'll be looking at that balance in an upcoming update. Hope you'll give it another shot when the updates land.
Great, with even more potential
Here’s stuff I would LOVE to see added.
1. A Variety Magazine list of “Top 10 New Actors”. It would be a cool milestone to get your actors on this list, which would be released every year.
2. Creating milestones for your actors to reach. For example, an actress who stars in like, 3 horror films that gross 100 million each gets dubbed a “Scream Queen.”
3. Make starting on SNL another milestone, the way you have with appearing on a Late Night Show.
4. Can there be something that your agency can spend money on other than therapy for your actors? Right now there’s no real penalty to going deep in debt, or benefit to having millions in the bank. Can you expand your agency? Can that be a way to break into the Elite tier? Can there be other agencies that you compete against?
5. That brings me to my ultimate ask, can there be a wider world that you create? For example, when your actor is nominated for an award, can we see the other nominees? And can those nominees be people in that world that star in projects, and maybe we can poach them from other agencies? And can there be news stories from Variety or Deadline that talk about these actors? This is obviously the hardest thing to do, but no other game does it, and it would do wonders for the replay ability of this game.
Response from developer
Thank you so much for this review — it genuinely made our day. Knowing the award system, skill discovery, audition flow and heat mechanics are all landing the way we intended means a lot. Your feature ideas are fantastic and we want you to know they haven't fallen on deaf ears. Actor milestone titles, a Variety-style annual list of emerging talent, and richer non-promotional TV bookings including a prestigious live sketch show equivalent are all already in our development pipeline. The bigger vision — competing agencies, a living actor world, an industry news feed — is exactly where we want to take the game long term. It's ambitious and we want to do it properly, so it will come in stages rather than all at once. But it's coming. Thank you for taking the time to write this. It's the kind of feedback that shapes where the game goes next.
