What's new in Showtime! 1.2.00
Jun 7, 2014
- Added: You can now sort each list by Name, Salary and Star Power
- Added: New random scripting events
- Added: You can now view talent attributes via the Talent Agency and Contracted pages
- Added: New award ceremony logos
- Added: New film titles and descriptions added to the database
- Change: Tweaked how performances for Directors and Producers are calculated
- Change: More talent is now generated each year
- Change: 'Summer' blockbusters now calculate depending on what hemisphere its released
- Change: Removed restriction to play outdated save files but please pay attention to any warnings
- Fixed: Bug which would occasionally crash the game if attempting to purchase a film script
- Fixed: Net Gain/Loss on the premiere screen now includes all finances for the film
- Fixed: News article which stated the date for highest grossing films of the year was one ahead
- Fixed: Bug where achievements would get 'stuck' if two were achieved at once
- Fixed: Award ceremony logos are now showing up properly
- Fixed: Additional smaller bug fixes
New in Showtime! 1.1.09 (Jun 7, 2014)
- Added: Film posters will now appear in certain articles on your Headlines page
- Added: Release Year has now been added to the Filmography hover information
- Change: You can now view your cast even after the movie has been Greenlit
- Change: Outdated sound stages no longer contribute to your score rating - just the best ones
- Fixed: Bug which would occasionally crash the game if attempting to purchase a film script
- Fixed: When changing pages sometimes the In Production page would not reset properly
New in Showtime! 1.1.08 (Jun 7, 2014)
- Added: Script elements are now added automatically to a sequel
- Change: Various buttons have been changed throughout the game to better suit their purpose
- Fixed: Sometimes not all talent would be displayed in their respective lists
- Fixed: Small error when creating a new entry in a series the title would be named after the sequel
- Fixed: Bug which resulted in a crash when a missing poster could not be found on the computer or had been moved
New in Showtime! 1.1.07 (May 30, 2014)
- Added: Contracted talent is now highlighted in the list to see easier
- Added: 167 new film titles to the database
- Change: Bank repayment buttons have been changed from $50k to $1mil per click
- Change: You can now no longer market your film until post-production has finished
- Change: Clapping audio for the award ceremony to be softer
- Fixed: Bug which would give a negative film gross if budgets were maxed out
- Fixed: Small bug which would sometimes display a casting role as 'open' after it had been filled
- Fixed: Bug which would sometimes display dead actors as alive resulting in a crash
- Fixed: Bug which would sometimes wipe your film location selection and display an empty city dropdown
- Fixed: The board would tell you off for having a number #1 studio
- Fixed: You can no longer select 'empty' spaces from the In Production menu
- Fixed: You can no longer buy an invisible script from Purchase Rights that resulted in a crash
- Fixed: Small error resulting from owning the Editing Facility and being given a false estimated date when entering post-production
- Fixed: Bug which (when exiting the game) closed the application anyway even if selecting 'No' from the popup menu
New in Showtime! 1.1.06 (May 30, 2014)
- Fixed: Bug which crashed the game when opening up the Award Ceremony
- Fixed: Bug which caused Runtime 393 when hiring actors for your film
- Fixed: Bug which caused Overflow error when maxing out your budget for a film
- Fixed: Bug which crashed the game if you had a negative budget when attempting to create a film
New in Showtime! 1.1.05 (May 30, 2014)
- Added: Auto-Save feature has been added. Can be activated from the Game Options menu
- Added: Certain genres/adaptations/special effects are locked out until they are actually 'invented'
- Added: You can now jump straight to one of your films from the Headlines page if the article relates
- Change: You can no longer name your film after one already made in your filmography
- Change: Rebooting a series has now been rolled into the selling option
- Fixed: Bug which allowed you to create duplicate films of the same title
- Fixed: Bug which caused Runtime 13 crash when opening up the Film Series
- Fixed: Bug which caused Runtime 9 when trying to hire new talent from the Talent Agency
- Fixed: Bug which sometimes crashed the Check for Updates search
- Fixed: Small error which displayed a number instead of the title of someone in the Talent Agency
- Fixed: Small bug which sometimes displayed older dates in the Headlines as occurring "This Month"
- Fixed: GUI repositioning problem for bottom navigation
- Fixed: Some messages displayed grammatical errors corrected
New in Showtime! 1.1.04 (May 30, 2014)
- Added: Option to "Max All" in the Staff screen
- Added: You can now select your film location and city
- Change: Film location now affects overall budget
- Change: The Talent Agency has been given an overhaul to make it easier to navigate
- Change: Trailers now cost more to produce but will give a better payoff in sales
- Fixed: Major bug which caused actor/director/producer lists to appear blank on non-English systems
- Fixed: Major crashes when hiring talent from the agency and end of year causing Runtime Error 13 and 9
- Fixed: Bug where you were able to contract talent for below their worth
- Fixed: Bug which allowed you to release a movie before post production has finished
- Fixed: Certain in-game events now only occur in specific years
New in Showtime! 1.1.03 (May 30, 2014)
- Added: Marketing now presents you with an recommended budget for marketing your films
- Added: Various new "help" icons around the game to explain more gameplay features
- Added: Film hype has been added to the Marketing page to compliment "primary audience"
- Change: The game will now remember your decision to turn sound on/off and will only ask once at startup
- Change: Replaced budget/advertising budget controls with sliders
- Change: The game will now display which image types can be imported for posters/logos
- Fixed: Bug which sometimes caused the game to crash when you changed the title
- Fixed: Bug which caused the cheat field to type backwards
- Fixed: Bug which crashed the game when entering zero for starting funds
- Fixed: Bug which changed the home video format to blank
New in Showtime! 1.1.02 (Feb 11, 2014)
- Added: Screenwriters are now generated along with new talent
- Fixed: Bug which would cause save files to become corrupted if bank loans were overdue
- Fixed: Bug which caused the Filmography to lose its structure
- Fixed: Minor bugs relating to how achievements are earned
- Tweaked how Film/Sound technology is allocated when starting a new game
- Additional small tweaks and changes
New in Showtime! 1.1.01 (Feb 4, 2014)
- Fixed: Bug which would cause the Film Premiere to display blank data if a scheduling conflict occurred
- Fixed: Minor bug which would sometimes give you more than 1 home video sales message
- Fixed: Minor bug which gave you the Box Office Smash! achievement prematurely
- Fixed: The talent pool screen now displays the correct gender for each person
- Tweaked the search functions to allow for better search results
- Additional small tweaks and changes
New in Showtime! 1.1.00 (Feb 3, 2014)
- Added: You can now establish Film Series
- Added: You can now earn Achievements in the game by accomplishing certain goals
- Added: Annual Board Meeting now includes additional stats; Top 10, yearly achievements, etc
- Added: Top 10 Highest Grossing Films of the Year screen now available in the Box Office menu
- Added: A new screen has been added to the World Premiere to include fan reception
- Added: You can now view cast member stats on the film premiere screen by hovering over their name
- Added: Filmography list view now includes the release year next to each film
- Added: Screenplay revision news events now display what items were boosted during writing
- Added: Visual representation of cast quality in the film premiere screen
- Added: 20 new character avatars
- Added: New random scripting events
- Added: Customised certain events to correspond to certain movie types (i.e. adaptations)
- Added: Option to turn off Award Ceremonies from the Headlines feed
- Fixed: The game no longer requires FM20.DLL which caused 'Out of Memory' errors for some users
- Fixed: Bug which would give Runtime Error '383' when loading a game with an Animation film in production
- Fixed: Bug which would give Runtime Error '6' when the scores got too high in the Staff screen
- Fixed: Bug which didn't correctly calculate Hall of Fame data properly
- Fixed: Bug which wouldnt let you upgrade your film/sound technology beyond a certain point
- Tweaked the Screenwriters page so its easier to select the attributes you want
- Tweaked screenplay revisions/rewrites so its not as hard to get 5-star scripts
- Tweaked the sales system to better reflect film quality
- Tweaked how R18+ movies sales are handled
- Optimized database loading in various parts of the game
- Additional small tweaks and changes throughout the game (revisions, additional graphics, etc)
- Showtime! installer is now Windows 8 compatible
New in Showtime! 1.0.0.6 (Nov 25, 2013)
- Added: "Staff" have been added which influence certain in-game events and movies; replacement feature for the percentage based upkeep system
- Added: New random scripting events added to the game
- Added: "Studio Ranks" button added to the Box Office drop-down
- Fixed: Bug which displayed the incorrect Screenwriter stats when hiring
- Fixed: Bug which attached an actor to every film, regardless of casting choices
- Fixed: When you have to recast a role you now get your entire film budget back
- Fixed: The 'production budget' in Filmography now includes all expenses of production
- Fixed: Renaming your sequel will no longer incur a 10% drop in film hype
- Tweaked sales algorithm slightly
- Tweaked the search functions to be a little more precise
New in Showtime! 1.0.0.5 (Sep 30, 2013)
- Added: A ton of new random scripting events to the game
- Added: 10 new character avatars to the game
- Added: Portraits now added to news events where applicable
- Added: A few more 'help' buttons to understand things a little easier
- Fixed: Bug which kept the months counting up which led to crashes/freezing
- Tweaked the monthly interest rate your studio pays
New in Showtime! 1.0.0.4 (Sep 17, 2013)
- Fixed: Major bug from version 1.0.3 that presented the wrong actor/director/producer info
- Fixed: Search bug which would give incorrect matches
- Fixed: Minor error in 1.0.3 which misaligned the Cast & Crew screen (fixed in re-release of 1.0.3)
- Optimized the loading of talent into the game
New in Showtime! 1.0.0.3 (Sep 17, 2013)
- Added: You can now 'Discover' new talent from the Talent Agency
- Added: The Sales Report screen has expanded to include 'Last Year' data
- Added: A stats pop-up which allows you to see info of those you've attached to your movies
- Fixed: Runtime Error 7 when sometimes clicking 'Finish Month' in December
- Fixed: Bug which crashed the game when the movie was put on hiatus
- Fixed: Bug which sometimes removed the classification from the premiere/box office
- Fixed: Bug which froze the game when sometimes buying a film script or creating a sequel
- Fixed: 'Spent to Date' now includes talent salaries
- Fixed: No longer will your scripts go down in quality in revision
- Tweaked talent salaries earned after each movie
New in Showtime! 1.0.0.2 (Sep 17, 2013)
- Added: Editor is now included with the game package
- Added: You can now speed up the award ceremony'
- Fixed: Runtime Error 6 when choosing excessive number for 'game will end after' value
- Fixed: Runtime Error 383 when clicking on 'Finish Month' close to releasing a film
- Fixed: Monthly rent changed from $1,200 to a 4% and 12% fixed value (depending on studio income)
- Fixed: You can no longer spend more on a movie then you actually have
- Fixed: Bug which caused the contracts page to duplicate names
- Fixed: Bug which caused AI studios to earn over a trillion dollars
- Fixed: Bank error which only allowed $49 million to be borrowed
- Fixed: Bug which caused the bank to take all your facilities even when you repaid the loan
- Fixed: Advertising budget now updates itself when you enter a value
- Fixed: Sales reports and statistical graph now updates to all box office income
- Fixed: Purchasing Film Rights now shows up on the sales report
- Fixed: You can no longer 'Remove' action events in the news feed
- Fixed: Bug which caused the yearly evaluation to constantly give you negative scores on your films
- Fixed: Minor errors and spelling mistakes
- Fixed: Bug which allowed you to hire the same talent twice
- Sales algorithms have been tweaked slightly
New in Showtime! 1.0.0.1 (Sep 17, 2013)
- Added: A few more random scripting events to the game
- Added: 17 new actor portraits added to the game
- Fixed: Bug which would display a number of 0's in the casting view
- Fixed: Bug which crashes the game when you set your funds value to $0
- Fixed: Tutorial lady accidentally gives wrong directions at startup
- Fixed: Awards won now shows up on the Studio Rank screen
- Fixed: Runtime Error 9 bug when releasing a second movie
- Possible fix for Runtime Error 383 when clicking on 'In Production'