Yet another music game

[Mrmoo]

I thought id make a quick post about a game im developing as fairly soon ill be at a stage of setting up a website about it and wil launch version 1 sometime after.

I have for a long time played chart wars and was frustrated how it doesnt get developed anymore, Rob is doing well working for sigames now and i get why he isnt but the genre is one that lacks any independent games other than one that costs too much for what it offers and doesnt even beat chart wars. So i thought to myself well i can program why not make my own game and make it with the idea that its for me. So what am i looking to do.

Ive set out a road map with a clear vision of features and ideas from a version 1 up to version 3! Yes thinking way ahead but the interesting thing is that for this to succeed i decided that it can only work if i stick to it. This was 2 months ago, so where is the game at the moment?

Even though im a single dad who works very long shifts in it ive found time to finish the following:

Game currently can start with random data database supporting up to:

3000 artists and out of these bands are created as well as solo artists.
200 producers
1000 song writers not including some artists who are capable
Supports 3000 arenas
Supports 200 manufacturing companies
Supports 200 distribution companies
30 award shows with unique criteria for awards
20 festivals
Currently 20 ai labels(can be increase)

As well as other things like staff ceo's etc

ALL of this info can be edited using a editor to create real world enviroments

What is finished:

User can make artist/band

Write songs
Release singles/albums
Appear on tv shows etc
Book tours

Ai works for all single and album sales, tours, promotions etc

Ai works out when artists start making all these things happen, it works very well at the moment.

Gui finally finished, this is what slowed me up as graphics is my weakness.

What needs finishing:

Awards/festivals
Label staffing ai
Few small things user and ai label related

As you can see its basically very nearly done.

Whats important to note is i mentioned a road map and what you might have noticed is currently its similar o chart wars and that is the case BUT it is because this is being made with a true engine so i can add more and why build everything in one go, that way it will never be finished. Few things on list for version two which i wont touch until v1 is done.

Xfactor...love it or hate it, it produces the next stars so how do i plan to use this in the game...lets just say im going to make a great game that i love and hope others do too.

Anyway watch this space...

Btw wrote this on phone im sure grammer issues please ignore that.

[shortyluke2012]

Yeah!

Dude, thank you so much. I am looking forward to this so much now, I have recently bought Music Wars Rebirth 2 but it is in Beta stages but I still miss CW3, and now I have found this out, I am just excited... I can imagine what it may look like

[Mrmoo]

I got music wars as well and though it looks nice it doesnt have much going for it play wise i find.

Ive spent last two weeks doing a new interface and well its like chart wars in that this is not impressive but lets be honest this is a simulation game it all about stats and information an ive got tones of that. On plus side ive already simmed a 20 year game without any crashes.

Ill post once a website is done as ill show some screenshots.

[Mrmoo]

Oh yeah and im calling it Road to Success atm unless i change my mind

[shortyluke2012]

Yeah I agree with you.

Well dude, you have my support on this game.

You simmed 20 years? That is impressive.

[Mrmoo]

When i say simmed i mean a continious sim ( u can sim a day, week or continiously). I let it run then every 6 months checked that the ai was doing what it should. I want to see people make real data a i cant for legal reasons and see how it does then.

[shortyluke2012]

Yeah I understand..

If I am able to make real data I would love to.

[Mrmoo]

A little update. Just finished another milestone, ai and user contracts. Was far harder than I thought it would be as I move onto next stages my programming ability is improving so much. I wont however be going back and redoing old code as that will add a lot fo time to developement. Ive migrated everything over to a new look again and im looking to stick to this one, its very stable at the moment very few bugs (just cosmetic atm).

Soon ill be doing the site but sadly im going to have to think of a new name as I need a good domain for it so road to sucess wont cut it. Any ideas feel free to spurt em out!

Another thing is ill need some alpha testing so if you're interested let me know and also let me know your OS and if its 32 or 64 bit as im be playing with some 32 and 64 bit code releases.

These forums are so slow now its such a shame.

[shortyluke2012]

I would love to do some testing, if its cool...

I have Windows 7, 64 Bit.


Yeah the forums are slow, but just so you know I check every day for an update on this post

Looking forward to this still dude, anticipated highly.

[smoofdude]

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?!

[brokeyard]

What's going on?

[Mrmoo]

Long term chart wars fan who is making a game of the same genre without givng up....

Game is feature complete and just undergoing some fine tuning, alpha testing starts within few weeks to work on game balance.