[DEMO] FEEDBACK

[Weappy]

This thread is made for any feedback, from how you feel about the demo to 'how-to' longreads.

Please respect each other’s opinions and avoid swear words.

Thanks for playing the Hollywood Animal demo!

P.S. You’re free to create your own discussions to chat about anything else regarding the Hollywood Animal.

[greifental]

Publicado originalmente por Frank River:

I suggest that player can choose to delete scripts once they are finished. I don't even want to shelf those low quality ones because there are too many scripts in the shelf.

Once shelved you can delete them. But yes a 'straight to the bin' button would be nice.

[QuinnAlx]

I would really appreciate it if you can allow the studio to make queer movies, or rather to be able to choose any gender for the love interest without the screenwriter refusing to write the script. I was shocked when I couldn't make a romance movie about two men or two women. Please let me know if this will not be possible, so I can remove the game from my wishlist, thank you.

[DUNGEON MASTER]

Publicado originalmente por QuinnAlx:

I would really appreciate it if you can allow the studio to make queer movies, or rather to be able to choose any gender for the love interest without the screenwriter refusing to write the script. I was shocked when I couldn't make a romance movie about two men or two women. Please let me know if this will not be possible, so I can remove the game from my wishlist, thank you.

This game is taking place in 1930s. Did we have much of such films in that years?

[greifental]

Publicado originalmente por QuinnAlx:

I would really appreciate it if you can allow the studio to make queer movies, or rather to be able to choose any gender for the love interest without the screenwriter refusing to write the script. I was shocked when I couldn't make a romance movie about two men or two women. Please let me know if this will not be possible, so I can remove the game from my wishlist, thank you.

You can if you have a screenwriter with an open-minded trait.

[DanielHall15]

This discussion makes me wonder how the game will handle the Hays Code that went into full effect in 1934.

[Lexanius]

The game is engaging and fun to play, but there are some areas that could enhance the overall experience and make it more user-friendly:

Suggestions for Improvement
- Animation and Tutorial Skipping:
Add an option to skip animations, the intro, and the tutorial. This would greatly benefit players who prefer to get straight into gameplay or replay the game.
Maybe a setting about the speed of the animation is good.

- Interactive Elements During Animations
Allow players to interact with windows (e.g., the salary menu) even while animations are running. This will make multitasking smoother and reduce idle waiting times.

- Better Explanation of the Salary window:
Provide a clearer explanation of the salary window.
Include key information, such as the total money earned per month, to give players a better understanding of their financial overview.

- Fire actors
Its hard to find, how to fire an actor

- Improved Story Planning with Writers:
Show available writers and their preferences when planning a story. This will help players make more strategic choices without excessive back-and-forth navigation.

- Highlight Found Story Trait Combinations:
Make discovered story trait combinations more visible.

- Actor Profiles on Mouseover:
Enable a mouseover feature for actors' names to display their profiles and images. Names alone aren’t always sufficient to distinguish between characters.

[phantomreader42]

Publicado originalmente por QuinnAlx:

I would really appreciate it if you can allow the studio to make queer movies, or rather to be able to choose any gender for the love interest without the screenwriter refusing to write the script. I was shocked when I couldn't make a romance movie about two men or two women. Please let me know if this will not be possible, so I can remove the game from my wishlist, thank you.

I expect that will be more of an option later in the timeline. Exactly when may depend on who you hire.

There's also no option for animation, which makes sense, since the first animated feature film wasn't released until 1937. And no standardized content rating system, since the MPAA rating scale wasn't established until 1968.

[arcade_monster]

First of all - I love the premise, the setting and the art style (some of the avatars look way too modern, considering the time period, and I believe it would have been more fitting if they resembled old photos, but anyway).

My biggest problem with the demo, at the moment, which I'm sad to say is almost a deal-breaker, is the non-stop popping up of windows and prompts which is either a result of the pacing or the overflow of events happening. I receive a task to do something (say, to hire an A-list actress for a gala) and I don't even have time to find out where I need to go to accomplish this task because I'm being bombarded with pop-ups every two seconds, preventing me from clicking anywhere on the map. A script is ready, but also the mayor asks you for a favor. But then immediately after that, the cinematographer on one of your projects makes a scene which hurts your reputation. Oh, by the way, one of your buildings has been upgraded. And then another script gets finished... And all this within a span of 20 seconds or so. It's maddening. I don't have time to think, let alone plan. I'm just clicking randomly on the buttons on the screen.

I really hope the game gets more balanced, pacing-wise, and allows me to explore, at my own leisure, what it must have felt like being a movie mogul during the golden era of Hollywood. Because this sounds beyond awesome as a game premise.

[Frank River]

Publicado originalmente por arcade_monster:

First of all - I love the premise, the setting and the art style (some of the avatars look way too modern, considering the time period, and I believe it would have been more fitting if they resembled old photos, but anyway).

My biggest problem with the demo, at the moment, which I'm sad to say is almost a deal-breaker, is the non-stop popping up of windows and prompts which is either a result of the pacing or the overflow of events happening. I receive a task to do something (say, to hire an A-list actress for a gala) and I don't even have time to find out where I need to go to accomplish this task because I'm being bombarded with pop-ups every two seconds, preventing me from clicking anywhere on the map. A script is ready, but also the mayor asks you for a favor. But then immediately after that, the cinematographer on one of your projects makes a scene which hurts your reputation. Oh, by the way, one of your buildings has been upgraded. And then another script gets finished... And all this within a span of 20 seconds or so. It's maddening. I don't have time to think, let alone plan. I'm just clicking randomly on the buttons on the screen.

I really hope the game gets more balanced, pacing-wise, and allows me to explore, at my own leisure, what it must have felt like being a movie mogul during the golden era of Hollywood. Because this sounds beyond awesome as a game premise.

If you are not an experienced player, you'd better not to choose speed 4. It's good to finish the demo in speed 2 first (though it will be very time consuming). You know the basic concept of this game, then you can speed up.

[Frank River]

Publicado originalmente por QuinnAlx:

I would really appreciate it if you can allow the studio to make queer movies, or rather to be able to choose any gender for the love interest without the screenwriter refusing to write the script. I was shocked when I couldn't make a romance movie about two men or two women. Please let me know if this will not be possible, so I can remove the game from my wishlist, thank you.

Sometimes you can buy such kind of scripts, but yes you can't directly assign such kind of task to the writers. I don't know it's a feature or all the scripts in market is randomly generated, but it does exist.

[Tobijon]

Publicado originalmente por Frank River:

Publicado originalmente por QuinnAlx:

I would really appreciate it if you can allow the studio to make queer movies, or rather to be able to choose any gender for the love interest without the screenwriter refusing to write the script. I was shocked when I couldn't make a romance movie about two men or two women. Please let me know if this will not be possible, so I can remove the game from my wishlist, thank you.

Sometimes you can buy such kind of scripts, but yes you can't directly assign such kind of task to the writers. I don't know it's a feature or all the scripts in market is randomly generated, but it does exist.

You can assign it to writers, but they will refuse unless they have a trait to make them more openminded

[Retcon Rob]

Please make it more obvious in the early game that we need to research the promotion office and where to find it in the tech tree. And/Or let us outsource the ads.

[Retcon Rob]

So I just applied for a loan because I'm in financial trouble. Are you seriously telling me that I won't get the loan money for 900 days? That's not how loans work!!!!

[greifental]

Publicado originalmente por Retcon Rob:

So I just applied for a loan because I'm in financial trouble. Are you seriously telling me that I won't get the loan money for 900 days? That's not how loans work!!!!

You don't apply for a loan, you research how to apply for a loan.

[Retcon Rob]

^that's..... not a great game mechanic.