Popcorn

[Pater Alf]

A game that is very similar to Popscene, but deals with the movie business insted of the music business. You have to become the number one producer for great Hollywood blockbusters. But before you will, there is hard work to be done: Write a script, sign the actors and the director, choose the settings and the soundtrack and hope that the audience will love your movie.

I like this game a little better than Popscene, because there is more variety in actions and you don't have to spend that much time just waiting for something to happen. Night be fun for people who like movies as well as managing simulations.

Developer: MDickie

Download: http://www.mdickie.com/downloads.htm

Download size: 21.4 MB

Year: 2005

Status: The game was made freeware in 2009. We still have to ask if we can host it.

I was unable to take screenshots, so I "borrowed" three small ones from the official homepage...

[Chroelle]

Found out so much more about how MDickie games works after playing this and Popscene 2. You have to get the right people working for you, and let them and them alone do the work they were meant to do. Writing a GREAT manuscript and then shooting crap-scenes due to crappy actors will never stop annoying me, and your two top-shelf actors then getting on the wrong side of eachother...GRRRRRR!
And then paying 100.000 for a piece of soundtrack music...ARRRRGGHHH! And then having your film flop the screen-viewings, and then .... oh...hitting on the DVD-market.
I loved the fact that this game could have me so immersed in it, that I actually felt these things. It was not frustrations at the games interface, or how it worked, but frustrations on behalf of the gameplay being challenging. A must-tryout in my book.