Idol Manager now Available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation®4, and PlayStation®5
Idol Manager on consoles (digital download) has just launched on Aug 25th! Thanks to our Steam community's positive feedback and support for the game, we were able to bring this title to consoles. We wanted to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you, it wouldn
Idol Manager on consoles (digital download) has just launched on Aug 25th!
Thanks to our Steam community's positive feedback and support for the game, we were able to bring this title to consoles. We wanted to extend our heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you, it wouldn't have been possible without you. While the console versions come with controller support and an optimized UI layout, it is still the same game that you love and enjoy. We really hope that this will help grow the Idol Manager community, bringing in more and more fans of the title. For those who own a Switch, PS4 or PS5, why don't you give the console version a try too? Remember, these idols, no matter how much they get paid, or if they get caught up in scandals, or if they don't get along well with their group mates, they can only reach the top of the idol entertainment industry with a capable producer backing them up! https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/idol-manager-switch/ https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0969-CUSA31385_00-2100507026447442 https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0969-PPSA05840_00-2994433267166452Future Updates
While we're still in development, here's a sneak peek of some new content in the works!
We'll let your imaginations run wild as to what we have in store for you.
Just for your information though, this is not just another update...
When we have more to share, you'll hear from us, so stay tuned!
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Theme songs by Kamen Joshi:
The charts aren't just there to stroke the egos of top performers; the rankings are also a valuable source of what sort of music is popular and trending. If you want to stay trendy, watch the musical chart to see what genres, lyrical themes, and choreography styles are currently popular. Trending genres are more likely to appeal to casual fans, while hardcore fans tend to have more esoteric tastes.
Styling
Think your idol needs a new look? You can now change their hairstyle or accessory using the newly-added styling feature. (Click the "scissors" menu icon on the bottom-right.)
Friendship is a measure of how much an idol generally likes you, similar to how the old relationship stat worked. Romance is a measure of romantic interest, and determines how willing an idol is to date or enter a relationship with you; it's affected by actions like flirting.
Influence
It's nice to be both liked and respected, but the two don't always go hand in hand. Influence is a separate meter which measures how indebted an idol feels to you: generally speaking, you gain influence with idols by doing favors for them, and you lose influence by asking idols to do favors for you. Similarly, uncovering compromising information about idols (and agreeing to keep it secret) will cause you to gain influence over them, but if they learn compromising information about you, it may cause you to lose influence over them.
If your influence level with an idol is positive, it means that you have influence over her; a negative value indicates that she has influence over you (and you probably owe her a favor if you want to get things back to normal). If an idol has influence over you, she cannot be fired!
The following events affect influence:
You will lose influence with an idol if she becomes injured
Fulfilling an idol's wish will cause you to gain influence with her
You gain a small amount of influence with any "pushed" idols each month
Your choices in certain substories and random events can also gain or lose influence (depending on the story or event) and affect other relationship stats.
Spending influence on favors
One of the benefits of gaining influence with an idol is the opportunity to spend that influence to ask her for favors. All of the following requests can be made of an idol if you have enough influence over her:
Forced breakup: You can tell an idol to dump her current boyfriend or girlfriend. The amount of influence required depends on several factors: if she's unhappy in her current relationship, she may be more willing to break up than if she likes her current partner. Additionally, if you have a "no restrictions" dating policy, it'll be harder to force an idol to break up. However, if you have a group policy which forbids dating, you can take this action without spending any influence.
Stop bullying: If you know that an idol is bullying another member of the group, you can use influence to force her to stop. If an idol is being bullied by a clique, telling the clique leader to stop the bullying will cause most of the other clique members to stop bullying as well (but you might still have a hanger-on who has to be persuaded separately from the clique leader). If you don't have enough influence with the clique leader to tell her to stop the bullying, you can tell the clique members individually to stop bullying: if you can separately influence half the group to stop bullying, the rest of the group will fall into line and stop bullying as well (regardless of how the clique leader feels).
Spying and blackmail: You can tell an idol to try to dig up dirt on another idol by rooting through her belongings or casually stalking her. If the spy is successful (random chance), you may gain influence over the idol she was spying on by uncovering evidence of misconduct, depending on how severe and potentially scandalous her misconduct is. An idol's willingness to spy for you is based on certain factors, such as her relationship with the target: idols will be less willing to spy on friends, and more willing to spy on their enemies. Idols who like you (either as a friend or as a romantic partner) will also be more willing to spy for you.
New hairstyles and accessories
Three new accessories and 19 new hairstyles have been added. (More hairstyles will be added in future updates.) For the next update, we're planning on adding an option to change hairstyles and accessories.
Reworked salary system
The game now tracks how much money each idol earns for you. You can check this number in their profile or in the salaries popup. The bottom-right corner of the default view now also has a button to bring up the salaries popup.
An idol's desired salary is based on their current fame level, how much money they're currently earning for you, and how much you're paying other idols. (If an idol sees that her peers have high salaries, she may start to feel underpaid.)
Under the old system, idols with 9 or 10 fame would sometimes demand absurdly high salaries. The new system (which factors in how much money she's actually making for the company) should help to alleviate this problem.
Changes to single creation
Selecting a marketing strategy for your single is now optional. Choosing to produce a single with no marketing strategy removes the need to have a business manager work on the project before it can be released.
Marketing strategies that are tied to a ticket or other physical item bundled with the CD (e.g. handshake events) have a scaling cost that is based on the number of CDs being produced, while marketing strategies that aren't tied to the physical product (e.g. fake scandal) have a fixed cost. (This was always the intended behavior, but small changes have been made to make this more consistent.)
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