Cinema Tycoon
Welcome to Cinema Tycoon!
As an up-and-coming entrepreneur and aficionado of the silver screen, you've recently leased a chunk of mall real-estate for the purpose of running a movie theater.
One day, if you play your cards right, you could even produce your own films.
Whether you play it fast and loose, or cautiously slow, your ultimate goal is to turn your seed money into a million dollars and produce at least 3 movies. Do that, and you've won. Drop more than $10,000 into debt and the landowner will pull your lease.
Test your skills against that of other players and climb the leadership board.
Point out any bugs or UI difficulties and we will patch them.
Ideal browser for this game: Google Chrome
Credits
Jorge Rodriguez: Gamification
William Funk: Main game design and programming
A Tenacious Teal Production
Development log
- Lower Movie Lease PricesJan 29, 2019
Comments
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I wish I could see how much the estimated weekly spent on property, consessions, and arcade game rent totals to.. I don't know how much these thing cost per week so I always lose.
This causes me to not know if I need to raise prices or not. 3 stars. Could be five, but these issues make the game excessively difficult to play.
Thank you for the feedback. I'll see about adding a breakdown for cost.
Hey Tenacious!
I know nothings probably changed yet, but I'm adding a star to my rating for taking the time to read and respond to my comment. My rating is now 4 stars.
Another feature that could be made is a difficulty setting. That way you can use Easy mode to get used to the game and understand controls and to find out what effects the game the most long term. Then, move onto normal/hard mode for the real challenge. I have lost in 15 days before. This was caused by learning to play and that the game was very difficult in this aspect as well. Just a suggestion.
Anyway, Hope your doing well! My rating is 4 stars now.
I appreciate the feedback. Thank you. I'll see where I can add a gradient to the difficulty and tie that to a user option. Either an adjustment ot the recurring cost amounts or the frequency of negative events.
I have added a difficulty choice to the game.
Normal is the way the game has always played out.
Easy only allows positive events and added lower modifiers to costs and a higher positive modifier to the how many people come to the theater each day (profit).
Hard adds higher modifiers to costs and lower modifiers to how many people come to the theater. I opted not to remove positive events as all negative events might take away some of the fun in the game.
I added an expense breakdown for the upcoming week's end bill. It is at the bottom of the main HUD where you'll see the sum of the upcoming expenses. There is a + sign to the right of it. When pressed, it will drop open the individual costs for the week. Clicking the - sign will close the breakdown.
Hope that improves the experience for you.
I will check it out! You should add me on discord, as I seem to be really good at giving feedback for games. I have done this for multiple games now and instead of giving feedback in the comments, I could message you on discord and I also wouldn't have to be so professional in my messages.
My user is peep#3094
Please put this into consideration.
-Jaden
On my first good run, the whole blacked out. Please fix this! It was very frustrating!!!
Do you mean the whole page went black?
Short Answer: Yes.
Long Answer: The whole game just turned black. Not my computer screen. The game froze (but chrome didn't) and it turned completely black.
Interesting. I'll see if I can reproduce and fix it. If you do play again, and encounter the problem. Try opening the chrome dev console (F12). If there's any red error messages in there it might pinpoint the problem. That's in case I can't make it black out for me.
Unfortunately, I couldn't reproduce this failure on my end. If it happens again, please open the dev console and see if there are any errors. Any little clue might help me pinpoint the issue. Whatever it is though appears to be very rare.
won in 137 days.
easy but enjoyable
Thank you.
I’m glad you had some fun.
I am in the process of trying this game, and after finally starting to get the hang of it, I happen to start new games in which the 3 license choices for movies all cost well above 10 000$, meaning that this game session is worthless and must "make it fail" in order to try again, with chances of having the same problem again. This should be fixed to guarantee at least one license is purchasable, or else what's the point of even try to open a cinema if you can't afford to show anything in it right from the start?
The concept seems interesting, though... Just wanted to report this strange annoyance/bug before playing further to see if I can get his business rolling for more than 3 weeks.
Thank you for letting me know about this problem. I will try and lower purchase costs for movie licenses to make it more accessible. I'll reply here when it's done.
@G-9Games: The reason the prices were so high for you is that all the movies you encountered were player created, and those players elected to use very high prices. I've updated the existing movie prices to be less than $8,000 but most are below $5,000.
Any new movies made will have a cap of $7,500 so that what you experienced won't happen again. I hope this helps, and that enjoy your game play.