Hello Animators!
It's time for some exciting news: With this update, Levels 1-9 are complete (pending any final balancing)! Over the next few weeks, I will be heavily testing and balancing these levels as well as getting Level 10 on the test branch of the server for final testing.
Because with Level 10 - where you'll face off against your Mom as she wages all-out War on your Animation Studio - the game will be complete! So, that's exciting and coming very soon!
Okay, so let's dive into what's new with this update:
New!
Player Builder
- Now when you start a new game, you create your own Avatar before creating your Mom Avatar.
- Your Avatar appears on your OMBd page now instead of the silhouette.
- Your Avatar now is the one at the level 8 Awards minigame instead of the Animator.
- Your Avatar is also the one playing the new level 9 Awards minigame as well.
Entourage
- You can now unlock the Entourage in the Producer's Office at level 9. It costs 200XP to unlock it.
- You have 10 Members of your Entourage who each have their own Perk
- Each Perk can be upgraded up to 10 times using Entourage Points
- Earn Entourage Points doing the weekly Entourage Card matching game.
- It costs 50 XP each week to run the matching Game
- Match 10 pairs of Entourage members to earn up to 15 Entourage Points each week
- For each Department you don't match up, they will suffer a drop in happiness!
Red Carpet Dash
- At level 9, you unlock the final Award Ceremony minigame - the Red-Carpet Dash - which begins after you complete the Finding Balance minigame.
- This minigame is a variation of the grapple variation of the Catch a Break weekly minigame, except instead of catching one specific Inventory, you must collect a sequence of Inventory. If you collect the full sequence, you earn the maximum points.
Tutorials
- Since Tutorials have had a major revamp, everyone's hints have been reset to see them all again.
- Once you see the new Hint, the game should remember that you've seen it and won't show it again unless you reset hints manually, or click "Play as guest"
- Once you unlock the Level 9 Entourage, you'll be able to skip the tutorial for future play-throughs if you want.
- Barista Hint now pops up in the Coffee Room to ensure the player knows how to switch to Barista mode
- A few Hints were removed as they are redundant due to other changes.
- Producer/Executive Tutorials
- Producer Level 5 : He now shows you his office before moving on to HR. This ensures the player sees the Department of the Week and knows where future upgrades will be.
- Executive Level 6:
- Fixed an issue that happens if all the Production people were out of the office when the Executive is trying to show you how to do Training - which requires at least one person to be in the office.
- Also explains that you earn Rotted Potatoes from TV movies in here now
- Producer Levels 6-8: The Producer now guides you through the new features instead of just talking about them in his meeting.
- Level 9: Once you unlock the Entourage, the Producer gives you his final guidance.
- All Minigame and Coffee Room Hints have been converted to videos instead of still images so you can see how the minigames operate a little better before playing.
- This includes the Award show minigames where Mom is texting instructions. You also get a video hint popup for these.
Random
- "Catch a Break"
- Swapped Editor character to the Animator.
- Removed the 4 hour "resting" time for the selected Department.
- Finding Balance
- Starts with 20 in each bucket in Easy mode
- Fixed a glitch where your fan rating would INCREASE if you failed instead of decreasing it.
- To-Do list
- Fixed a small glitch on the Level 2 To-Do list, due to last update's balancing
- Level 9 no longer requires PR Disasters (as those happen automatically). Instead, you must earn a certain amount of Entourage Points, based on your difficulty level.
- Ensured that the Award Points were being calculated properly on the Studio Clipboard and the actual Film!
- Moved the ability to "Name" Mom to the bottom of her creator page.
- Fixed a glitch where some "Media Focus" Producer Perks weren't calculating properly
- Going the Corrupt Path now results in more Awards Points.
- Added more mom Taunting