Run a television studio from the ground up by designing shows with granular creative control, then release them to watch audiences react to your decisions. Earn revenue to fund more productions and expand your network across multiple seasons. The game offers surprisingly intricate mechanics beneath its text-based interface, though early progression requires patience and experimentation to navigate its systems.
About this game
Get in charge of your own TV Show Company in this text-based tycoon game! Have you ever thought of your own TV Show? Design your dream shows down to the small details. Release your shows and witness your audience comment on your design choices! Make money and release more shows and seasons!
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As of right now, this game clearly needs a lot of work to be done, but has a lot of potential at the same time.
My main complaints are, the UI/UX is a bit... lacking. There is no sound. Some tactile sounds for hovering over things, a basic soundtrack, sounds that fit the stage of development of your show/script would be nice. You cant take loans? Its very easy to run out of money. You have no idea whats good or bad for your show when selecting Dimensions. An auto generator for the making of characters would be nice.
I'd recommend taking inspiration from other tycoon games with the actual appearance of your... studio. Upgrades for it, have it expand as you get bigger, etc. I know your location and the looks of the people aren't so much the focus of this game but, it... could use some improvement. I'm going to leave it as a "Yes recommended... but" for now.
As long as this game gets some love and work, I can see the diamond in the rough.
This game is not good and I don't even know where to start. QOL is really bad, I had to go looking what to do and where every step of the way, nothing in the UI make intuitive sense. Then, once of the first thing you do is hire some people. There is a filter but if you click on someone and go back you have to select and apply filter all over again, like every setting you have to do again. If somehow you've managed to create a show and you've succeeded in having money left. I haven't figured out how to make money, even though my first show had a 7.5 rating I still lost a whole lot of money. If you make a new show you'll have to go through all the trouble again... But if you make a second season, there no difference! You still have to select a director, writer and composer (you can't just hire the previous one automatically and do you need a new composer for a sitcom for example? Just use the same song and a laugh track). And you have to hire (new) actors for the same roles!? Why doesn't it automatically select the actors from season one? None of this stuff makes any sense. This is like the first beta draft of an idea for a game. Like version 0.1 or something. Ridiculous.
I didn't expect this small game to have deep mechanics! In-game show reviews feel quite real, definitely gives the feeling of a living world. It's hard to understand the game at first since it has so many choices, which can make you feel overwhelmed a bit especially if you haven't played this type of a game before, but once you get the grasp of it I'd say it's worth the struggle. UI needs a lot of work but this is a decent game and it has the potential to be better.
Hello everyone, We want to inform our community that TV Show Tycoon will be a Free-to-Play game soon. If you are currently planning to buy the game, we strongly recommend waiting until the transition so you can access it at no cost.For players who have purchased the game recently, please feel free to submit a refund request through Steam’s support system. A huge thank you to all the player who have tried our game and we hope it's been able to provide you fun moments and that it will keep doing so.
Hello everyone! We are here with a bigger update today! What Changed? Income and expenses are balanced. Characters usually ask for lower prices. Shows generate less money each turn. Everything gains much less Fanbase from shows. Characters don't start asking for absurd amounts of money in new seasons of successful shows now. Now you can sign multiple seasons contract with characters. When you make an offer to a character, click "Negotiate" and select how many seasons you want to sign for. This is the amount, so 'For 3 Seasons' means the contract will last for the 3 seasons the character works in the show. E.g Season 3 to Season 6. While making a new season, importing previous settings will automatically place the signed characters into their positions and pay their negotiated salary. You can view the characters you currently have a contract with at right click context menu. List panel now has markers that show important stats while hiring characters. (Hover on Column Name to get information. Column Name e.g: 'Athletism'). You can also hide it if you wish. Characters become unavailable four times less frequently. 'Looks' stat is a lot less likely to be 1 or 10 now. You can now negotiate contract with characters who have 1 more Reputation than you. (e.g if you have 3 Reputation, you can negotiate with 4 Reputation characters.) While negotiating price with a character, max tries is now 10 instead of 3. (Includes seasonal raise tries.) On save game load, if you had a work in progress show and already hired a composer, the composer and ost quality showed as empty. This is fixed now. Right Click Context Menu font changed. A game-breaking bug that occurred after selling a universe was fixed. A game-breaking bug that occurred after terminating a contract through canceling a show was fixed. After selling a universe, the shows that belonged to the universe but were not released used to remain. This is now fixed. We hope you enjoy the update and have a great day!
Hello everyone! We are here with a small update. What Changed? You can now disable networks from going bankrupt on the Settings. The game now will notify you on the main menu when there is a new update and you can read the Update Logs in-game. Show Character Creation’s Broken UI is fixed. When there are more than 10 characters, the characters list used to be seen behind the creation panel, which is fixed now. When there are more than 12 characters, the list overflowed the panel. We now added a scroll. “Add Character” used to bring in the character without saying its role like "(1) Main Character)” and instead said “(1) Character)” unless the list was refreshed. This is fixed now. Next in the plan is balancing the income and the character prices, as well as hiring characters for multiple seasons. Thank you for playing our game and we hope you enjoy the update. Have a great day!
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