We're very happy to bring you version 0.36 of Showrunner! It adds 50 new scene cards, more than doubling the total available. Most of the new cards also have special effects which offer powerful synergies with other cards and with season themes! The previous scene cards have also been rebalanced.
The starting amount of Script Points has been upped from 100 to 1500 just for this build to help you quickly start unlocking the new cards to play around with!
Saves from the previous build of the game should still function with this version, but to get most of the new functionality and the new cards you'll need to start a new game in this version.
We've also added the Character Title system, which allows you to unlock and assign titles to characters which help to define their place in the world of your show. Titles selected with automatically generate a simple character description, but you can also write you own.
The UI for the Character Select screen has been reworked, with character/actor details moved to a sidebar to make room to show the season themes, season arcs and selected scene cards, as all of these may be relevant when picking characters for the episode.
Content
- 50 new Scene Cards, most of which have new special rules.
- Two new Season Themes added (Growth, Justice). Many of the existing themes are now unlocked by a new card set rather than being unlocked from the start of the game. Two existing themes (Coming of Age, Friendship) bonuses changed so there are themes that are more directly useful for Comedy shows.
Functionality
- Added the Character Title system, which includes a new screen and additions to the Character Details screen. Character Titles are unlocked by progressing the studio's overall archetype levels, and can then be applied to characters on the character details screen.
- Added Production Costs to episodes, currently always a low standard amount (will only be active in games started in this version or later, to avoid crashes)
- Can now select character gender on the character create screen, or leave it unspecified. Some other tweaks to the Character Create screen.
- Player can now rerun the casting process for a character, at increased cost. Each subsequent attempt increases that cost again. Number of recasts limited to 1 initially but can be increased by reaching certain studio levels.
Balancing
- Reworked the balancing of all previous Scene Cards.
- Player starts with 1500 Script Points for this build rather than the usual 100
- Starting tokens are now much more limited and differ depending on which show genre you are making. Tokens carry across between seasons of a show, but are lost if a show ends completely.
UI
- Lots of changes and tweaks to the Script Create screen, including new bars to indicate the level of points your script has in each stat type, reducing themes and arcs down from 6 to 5, nicer display of token numbers, episode and season number displayed.
- Reworking of the Character Select part of the Script Create flow, with character/actor details moved to a sidebar to make room to show the season themes, season arcs and selected scene cards, as all of these may be relevant when picking characters for the episode.
- Added coloured glows and matching title font colours to differentiate the following sidebars - Staff (Green), Job Applicants (Red) and Character (Yellow). Tweaks to character sidebar alignments.
- Message added to Character Combo screen when no combos currently unlocked.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed bug on Script Create screen where face points for cards could be duplicated visually on the card when removing another card