Developer posts and news about this game.
The engineer arrived at the Great Steam Works shortly after dawn on the first day, carrying beneath one arm a polished brass case stamped: **MUSIC MANAGER** Inside it was everything required to open the Workshops to the public. At least, that was the theory. The Great Steam Works
This update introduces some of the biggest new systems added to Music Manager during the playtest. Musicians now develop over time, pursue their own ambitions, build accomplishments across their careers, and form stronger relationships with their fans. Every three months, you als
Playtest 3 is now fully live and will run for two weeks. The game will be updated frequently as feedback is received.
The previous Music Manager Playtest ended on 10 July and I have been busy working through the feedback since then. I am now planning to launch the third and final Playtest on 31 July. A COMPLETE LOCALISATION OVERHAUL The weakest area of the previous Playtest was the localised tra
The second playtest is nearly over after two weeks online. Thank you to everyone who has submitted bug reports and feedback. I’ve acted on everything received, although two messages arrived slightly garbled because they were sent before the diagnostic system was updated. If you s
First, thank you to the player who reported this. Someone made a mod called genesis using the editor, which is genuinely impressive because I did not think anyone would be that deep into it yet. For some reason, there was a genre mismatch in the mod data, which meant the game cou
A player very kindly sent feedback about the PR scene: “funny but i'm confuse something about PR”. I am not completely sure I interpreted it correctly, but I have added a tooltip to the Release Album button to explain when no recorded album is ready for release yet. If you encoun
The second Music Manager playtest is now active and will run until 10 July. This version has been expanded since the first playtest. All feedback from the first round was gratefully received and acted upon, so if you sent feedback last time, hopefully you will see some of the imp
Summer is here, so naturally it is time to talk about Christmas. A lot has changed since the last Steam update, much of it shaped directly by Playtest feedback. The biggest change is the guided tour. It was useful, but at around 120 steps it was also a bit daunting. It has now be
The first Music Manager Playtest has now ended. Thank you to everyone who took part and sent feedback. I’ve now gone through the reports, notes and messages, and I’m working through the changes for an updated Playtest version planned for late June. I’ve tried to thank everyone wh
The Music Manager Playtest is still active and available to everyone who has been granted access. Thank you to everyone who has already downloaded and played the game. This is an early Playtest build, so your feedback really does matter. Even short comments are useful, whether yo
The first Music Manager Playtest window will open this Friday at 14:00 BST and run until Monday at 06:00 BST. An initial limited batch of testers will be admitted shortly before the playtest begins. Visit the Steam page and click Request Access before 14:00 BST on Friday to be co
The first Music Manager Playtest build is now finished and will be uploaded to Steam within the next 24 hours. There has been a lot of work this week on getting the build polished, particularly around tutorials, UI layout, feedback tools and localisation. The first upload will in
Hello again, and thanks to everyone who has followed or wishlisted Music Manager so far. I wanted to share a quick progress update, along with a few new screenshots from the current build. The main headline is that I am still on track to submit the first playtest build to Steam b
Welcome and thanks for taking an interest in Music Manager. I wanted to post a short update on what the next stage of the project looks like. The Steam page is now live and will continue to be improved over the coming weeks. Some of that work is presentation and community setup b