Hollywood Animal News

Hello!

• Fixed a few more situations that caused the department head level up screen to lock the game.
  
• The price of extending a contract for the duration of a movie's production is now reasonable.
  
• Department upgrades now get paused if you lose a department head for any reason.
  
• Some balance tweaks to film distribution in Germany.
  
• Now the game generates a bit more independent cinemas. Also It’s now more expensive to buy cinemas.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused the game to generate talents with story characters portraits.
  

See you tomorrow with the next one!

Hello!
A bunch of fixes and improvements.

- Fixed a problem that caused the game to freeze right after the disclaimer in the main menu.
- Fixed a bug that locks the game when a department head maxes out.
- Fixed a bug that caused 9.9 movies to earn minus 2 billion.
- Fixed a bug that caused department heads to leave for no reason. Also, now you can extend contracts with them without going to the negotiations screen.
- Fixed a bug that caused shitty movies to be nominated for Pollux.
- Fixed a bug that caused the police surveillance screen to lock the game.
- Fixed the postcard for Hitler (yeah).
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to recycle the same movie names over and over again.
- Fixed post production contractors for the Behemoth policy
- Buildings now wear out 50% slower.
- Police raids can no longer occur one after another.

If you started your game on the version 0.8.8EA, you’re good to go with your current saves.
See you with the next update tomorrow!

Hello!

We pushed the 0.8.9EA version for a moment, but had to roll it back right away because we discovered a problem that could prevent a new game from starting properly. We will release the update in about 18 hours from now (2 PM CET / 5 AM PT), which is a shame because we really wanted to push it today. Nevertheless, we thought we'd tell you what changes it will contain.

- Fixed a problem that caused the game to freeze right after the disclaimer in the main menu.
- Fixed a bug that locks the game when a department head maxes out.
- Fixed a bug that caused 9.9 movies to earn minus 2 billion.
- Fixed a bug that caused department heads to leave for no reason. Also, now you can extend contracts with them without going to the negotiations screen.
- Fixed a bug that caused shitty movies to be nominated for Pollux.
- Fixed a bug that caused the police surveillance screen to lock the game.
- Fixed the postcard for Hitler (yeah).
- Fixed a bug that caused the game to recycle the same movie names over and over again.
- Fixed post production contractors for the Behemoth policy
- Buildings now wear out 50% slower.
- Police raids can no longer occur one after another.

Thank you for your patience, we will let you know when the update is live!

Hello!

Thank you very much for playing Hollywood Animal! We appreciate your feedback and we’re working hard to address as many issues as humanly possible, as fast as we can.

Here are some of the things from this update, as well as a few words about our plans for the coming days.

[h2]Bugfixes:[/h2]

- Fixed a serious problem that would cause a movie to get stuck in various stages of filmmaking.
- Fixed a problem that could freeze the game on an empty release popup.
- Fixed a problem that could cause the game to show you an empty hiring screen.
- Fixed a problem that could cause the game to get stuck during the Policies introduction.
- Fixed a problem that could freeze the game when you interact with the Pollux nominations popup.
- Fixed a problem that could freeze time due to a glitch in the windows queue.
- Dead screenwriters can’t write scripts anymore.
- And a bunch of smaller fixes like a missing story element icon.


[h2]Balance improvements:[/h2]


We made a number of tweaks that made the game less unforgiving.

- Utilities now cost about 50% less
- General staff now costs about 20% less
- Reduced time for some upgrades
- Using your own sound studio, concert hall, and printing office in post production costs $0 (because if you have them, you’re already paying for them)
- You start the game with $7.6 million


Unfortunately, most of the changes, including major bugfixes, are only applicable to the new game and cannot be applied to save files. So, if you’ve faced significant issues, we ask that you start a new run.


[h2]What's cooking in the upcoming updates?[/h2]

In addition to further bugfixes and balance improvements, we are currently working on the following features:

- Animations of production screens and negotiations will speed up significantly after multiple plays. Also you’ll be able to extend contracts with executives without using the negotiations screen.

- You’ll be able to skip the tutorial.

- When you for whatever reason lose your department head, the department upgrade will be paused instead of cancelled.

Hollywood Animal Early Access is now available on Steam!

The current version of the game offers about 20 in-game years and over 30 hours of gameplay. We plan to release monthly content updates, along with regular fixes and tweaks.

A lot has changed since we released the Christmas demo, so we strongly recommend starting a fresh save.

For the first week, Hollywood Animal will be available at a 10% discount.

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