Hey everyone! It's been a few weeks now that I've been working on the studio director, and there's still a lot of work ahead before having something functional. This feature is much more complex than expected. I hadn't taken into account not only the game reports, but also the degree of freedom that the studio director should offer you, or even how the scores should be shown to you.

Game Genres

For game reports, I simply added a checkbox and the problem was solved, but for degrees of freedom, it's more complex. For game genres, for example, I want to offer you the best possible choice. So there will be the following options:

• Prioritize genres you don't master
• Prioritize genres you master
• Prioritize genres the producer masters
• Specify the genre to use (one or two genres)

I think with this list, you have all possible choices, and it's especially very clear.

Game Engines

For these, it's just as complex. Here's the list I plan to implement:

• Use the cheapest game engine
• Use the game engine with the most features
• Use the most recent in-house game engine
• Use a specific game engine

Here again, I think I'm offering you the greatest variety of choices possible. Not to mention that the interface will need to evolve based on your choices. If you want to specify a particular engine, you'll need to choose from a list. The same goes for game genres obviously.

Game Publishing

Once the game is released, you'll see the scores displayed. It will be great, especially since you'll also have game reports that can be generated automatically. Well, that being said, I imagine you'll be interested in a detailed performance report of the studio directors. And so, I started thinking about it. Some metrics will be relevant while others won't be useful to you. Among the relevant metrics, here's a list:

• Average score of released games
• Revenue
• Profit bonuses received
• Number of published games
• Number of fans gained/lost

The studio director's performance summary screen will be divided into 2 parts. The first will be a simple table showing the metrics. While the second part will be a graph showing the monthly results of the last year. When I told you this feature was bigger than expected... I wasn't lying. I honestly thought I'd have time to make a functional version, even partial, for this week, but I was delayed by these kinds of details. I'm sorry for the additional wait, but I prefer taking the necessary time to offer you more quality content. That's it, thank you for reading See you next week, Take care, Xavier aka Binogure