Today is the fifth anniversary of the launch of Empire TV on Steam and we wanted to celebrate it with an official announcement, we are making a new game!.

Our new game is Across the Obelisk an immersive story-driven RPG with deckbuilding combat and roguelite elements, singleplayer or coop multiplayer with up to 3 friends.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1385380/Across_the_Obelisk/

We plan to release the game in Early Access in Q1 2021.

As a thank you, we will try to offer a discount to everyone who supported us and bought Empire TV during those years.

When we stopped working at Empire TV we took a little break and since then we have always wanted to make another game, we also had Empire TV 2 in our minds, but due to lack of resources and life itself we never got down to work, after all, we are a small team of two people. A year ago we started working seriously on a new project and thus Across the Obelisk was born.

If you are interested in Across the Obelisk you will find more information on the Steam page and you can join our discord for the game:

https://discord.gg/CCHqyaw

Thanks again everyone.

Third year anniversary!

Three years have passed since we released Empire TV on steam, to celebrate this date we give a special discount, grab it while you can and have fun!

Also, halloween event is near but we can guarantee that the halloween discount won't be supperior to this one.

Hey everybody!

We are so glad to announce that thanks to our recent partnership with Kalypso, Empire TV Tycoon is now available in the App Store for all you iPad users.

Bear in mind that the game is only available for iPad (android tablet version will come in the following weeks). We have not released the game for mobile phones because the limited screen size makes the game almost non playable... anyway, we are looking for zoom features and a future phone version may come in a future.

The iPad version is 1.6.2, the same one that we've deployed right now in Steam. This version includes optimization changes (among some fixes here and there) that we had to do in order to port the game to tablets.

Finally, we want to thank all of you who have been working on mods to expand the core of the game. Please remember that mods let you play with the latest tvshows, movies, custom ads, etc!

If you are a new player and want to try it, here are some of our recommended mods that you can find in the Workshop:

• New Adverts with posters and TV images by pauldimitriug
  
• American Cartoons by Hiro Hamada
  
• Real Actors & Extra Actors by Ustarroz
  
• Otaku MOD - 7001 series/OVAs/movies by steppenwolf
  
• Movies & TV Shows 2017 - V1.3 by joshua.pritchard96
  
• Movie TV Images & Posters by hans
  

Hey everybody!

We are so glad to announce that thanks to our recent partnership with Kalypso, Empire TV Tycoon is now available in the App Store for all you iPad users.

Bear in mind that the game is only available for iPad (android tablet version will come in the following weeks). We have not released the game for mobile phones because the limited screen size makes the game almost non playable... anyway, we are looking for zoom features and a future phone version may come in a future.

The iPad version is 1.6.2, the same one that we've deployed right now in Steam. This version includes optimization changes (among some fixes here and there) that we had to do in order to port the game to tablets.

Finally, we want to thank all of you who have been working on mods to expand the core of the game. Please remember that mods let you play with the latest tvshows, movies, custom ads, etc!

If you are a new player and want to try it, here are some of our recommended mods that you can find in the Workshop:

• New Adverts with posters and TV images by pauldimitriug
  
• American Cartoons by Hiro Hamada
  
• Real Actors & Extra Actors by Ustarroz
  
• Otaku MOD - 7001 series/OVAs/movies by steppenwolf
  
• Movies & TV Shows 2017 - V1.3 by joshua.pritchard96
  
• Movie TV Images & Posters by hans
  

Hello everybody and happy 2017!!!

Over the last months we have been working on the Empire TV Tycoon portability to tablet devices, that means we have optimized the game in lot of ways, as a result of this we bring you a new patch(v1.6) for Empire TV Tycoon.

As we’ve said this patch is all about optimization and improving the game performance. Furthermore, we’ve fixed some minor bugs that we found while working on it.

We hope to release the game for both iOS and Android soon.

As always thank you for your support.

Hello everybody and happy 2017!!!

Over the last months we have been working on the Empire TV Tycoon portability to tablet devices, that means we have optimized the game in lot of ways, as a result of this we bring you a new patch(v1.6) for Empire TV Tycoon.

As weve said this patch is all about optimization and improving the game performance. Furthermore, weve fixed some minor bugs that we found while working on it.

We hope to release the game for both iOS and Android soon.

As always thank you for your support.

Hello all, it’s been a year since we released Empire TV Tycoon on Steam and now is time to celebrate!

When we released Empire TV Tycoon back in October 20th of 2015, we already thought that the game was in a very good shape and that’s why we decided to go with a full 1.0 release instead of an Early Access method. Although we are small indie team of two people, we promised to listen to the player suggestions and keep working on improving the game with the community feedback and as many new features as we could.

Here is a small recap of all the improvements and new features that has been added into the game during this last year:
- Doubled the speed of the elevator.
- Added a new Warning Window.
- Added Audience Smiles on the TV.
- Made editable/customizable the text of the scripts.
- Added the Endless Mode.
- Added Channel Specialization.
- Added Audience Bans.
- Added Channel News.
- Added Best Movie Awards.
- Added Mini Series and Long Duration TV Shows.
- Added the Custom Mode.
- Added restoration save points for the savegames.
- Added the Antennas Map.
- Reworked the Ads and game progression systems.
- Added Special Content.
- Added Second Seasons.
- Added the Movie Archive.
- Added Mods and Workshop support.
- Added game compatibility for tablets.
- Translated the game to German, French, Portuguese and Russian.
- Added tons of new movies, ads, actors, quest, events and other game content.
- Added lots of tooltips, help windows and gameplay feedback
- Tweaked and balanced all the game systems.
- Graphically improved and adjusted nearly all windows in the game.
- Fixed lots of bugs and other issues.

Not bad, right? We are very happy on how the year turned out. Currently we are finishing the next patch that will make the game compatible with tablet devices and fix some minor bugs. When the patch is finished we will release the game for IPad and Android Tablets as soon as possible.

When we finish the tablet version we will decide what to do next, we have an interesting idea for a new game that we will like to explore in more detail. As for a sequel, yes we have talked about it and we would really like to make Empire TV 2 at some point in the future, correcting our early mistakes, making it visually more appealing, much more complex and adding multiplayer.

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary we offer a two week 50% discount.
As always, thank you all for your support.

Hello all, its been a year since we released Empire TV Tycoon on Steam and now is time to celebrate!

When we released Empire TV Tycoon back in October 20th of 2015, we already thought that the game was in a very good shape and thats why we decided to go with a full 1.0 release instead of an Early Access method. Although we are small indie team of two people, we promised to listen to the player suggestions and keep working on improving the game with the community feedback and as many new features as we could.

Here is a small recap of all the improvements and new features that has been added into the game during this last year:
- Doubled the speed of the elevator.
- Added a new Warning Window.
- Added Audience Smiles on the TV.
- Made editable/customizable the text of the scripts.
- Added the Endless Mode.
- Added Channel Specialization.
- Added Audience Bans.
- Added Channel News.
- Added Best Movie Awards.
- Added Mini Series and Long Duration TV Shows.
- Added the Custom Mode.
- Added restoration save points for the savegames.
- Added the Antennas Map.
- Reworked the Ads and game progression systems.
- Added Special Content.
- Added Second Seasons.
- Added the Movie Archive.
- Added Mods and Workshop support.
- Added game compatibility for tablets.
- Translated the game to German, French, Portuguese and Russian.
- Added tons of new movies, ads, actors, quest, events and other game content.
- Added lots of tooltips, help windows and gameplay feedback
- Tweaked and balanced all the game systems.
- Graphically improved and adjusted nearly all windows in the game.
- Fixed lots of bugs and other issues.

Not bad, right? We are very happy on how the year turned out. Currently we are finishing the next patch that will make the game compatible with tablet devices and fix some minor bugs. When the patch is finished we will release the game for IPad and Android Tablets as soon as possible.

When we finish the tablet version we will decide what to do next, we have an interesting idea for a new game that we will like to explore in more detail. As for a sequel, yes we have talked about it and we would really like to make Empire TV 2 at some point in the future, correcting our early mistakes, making it visually more appealing, much more complex and adding multiplayer.

To celebrate the 1 year anniversary we offer a two week 50% discount.
As always, thank you all for your support.

A quick patch to address some issues.

- Added: When purchasing a "movie library" upgrade your maximum movie count increases by 3, total 47 maximum movies with all the upgrades.
- Fixed a bug with the special movie extra money cost not being reduced from your money..
- Fixed a bug with the production assistant passive bonus. that reduced production times, being applied twice in some cases.
- Fixed an issue with ads in the schedule window where viewers numbers were messed up after reaching more than 24m audience.
- Fixed some tv shows where episodes were shown as 0/0.
- Fixed some text translations.
- Added some missed characters for Hungarian and Chinese fonts
- Readjusted some floating windows for future tablet portability

Thank you all for your support and happy summer sales.

A quick patch to address some issues.

- Added: When purchasing a "movie library" upgrade your maximum movie count increases by 3, total 47 maximum movies with all the upgrades.
- Fixed a bug with the special movie extra money cost not being reduced from your money..
- Fixed a bug with the production assistant passive bonus. that reduced production times, being applied twice in some cases.
- Fixed an issue with ads in the schedule window where viewers numbers were messed up after reaching more than 24m audience.
- Fixed some tv shows where episodes were shown as 0/0.
- Fixed some text translations.
- Added some missed characters for Polish and Chinese fonts
- Readjusted some floating windows for future tablet portability

Thank you all for your support and happy summer sales.

Hello everybody! After some delays, we present you Empire TV Tycoon Enhanced Edition. This patch was going to be the version 1.3 of the game, but weve added so much new features, upgrades and implemented lots of your suggestions -during those last months- that we decided to skip 2 game versions, so this patch will become Empire TV Tycoon v1.5, also known as Empire TV Tycoon Enhanced Edition.

Due to the massive changes, improvements and new features that have been added to the game with this patch, the 1.2.3 save files (latest stable build) aren't compatible with the 1.5 version. But as usual, the old version is available under the beta option of Steam Library for Empire TV Tycoon, so if you still want to finish your saved games, you can revert your game to the 1.2.3 version and keep playing.

The new features of Empire TV Enhanced Edition are:

Mods and Workshop
Empire TV Tycoon v1.5 include mod support and steam workshop. Right now with mods you will be able to modify or add the following:
- Add new movies into the game and modify any value(name,genre,score...) of the existing movies of the game. Also add a poster for your movies, visible in the movie tag, and Add or Modify the lower left image that appears in the tv for each movie when it's on air.
- Add new ads and Modify any value(name, description, rewards...) of the existing ads of the game. Also add a poster for your ads, visible in the ad tag, and Add or Modify the lower left image that appears in the tv for each ad when it's on air.
- Add new actors with their photos and Modify any value(name, prefered genres...) of the existing actors of the game, and add a custom photo for them.
- Add new news and Modify any value(description, genre...) of the existing news of the game, and add a custom tv image for them.
- More options will be added over time (feel free to make your suggestions in this subject).

Antennas Map
The antennas map is our new progression system for the game. We weren't 100% happy with the progression system that we had in which you had to buy 2 upgrades for increasing your max audience, it was a little simple and the audience numbers increments were too drastic, so we wanted to change it at some point. Also, the community was nostalgic of how Mad TV handled this issue and suggested us to do something similar, we were a little hesitant at first because we thought it wasn't needed and we didn't want to make the exact same system that Mad TV had.

Finally, we decided to implement it but in our own way and with a twist, buying antennas will not only increase your channel max audience, it will also attract a specific audience groups that you choose and make them watch more your channel.

With this feature you will be able to customize your channel even further and thus if you decide to specialize only in one genre or audience group and only buy antennas that attract that group you will start noticing with each antenna than more and more hours of you daily schedule is filled with your prefered audience groups. This opens even more the possibility to make a themed channel because buying the right antennas will fill all your scheduled hours with your selected groups.

Reworked Ads
We have changed how the ads works in the game, thanks to the new progression system with the antennas. Now, to complete an ad you must achieve a minimum of viewers, based on a % of your channel average potency (which you upgrade buying new antennas).
The required viewers and % to complete an ad varies depending of the ad and his difficulty, also keep in mind that harder ads gives better rewards. When you are playing a game you will see new and harder ads appearing while the easier ones disappear during the game progress.

We have also added over 50 new ads in the game to make things more varied and interesting.

Special Content
With this patch we introduced 6 new tags for default content and also for player made content, those tags add another layer of options and possibilities on top of the movie genre types. The special content gives a bonus to normal movies making them even more liked by specific audience groups.
- movies have a bonus to all audience groups.
- <+16> movies have a bonus to all audience groups, but children shouldn't watch them.
- movies have a huge bonus to elders and a big bonus to other male audience groups, but female audience groups don't like it. Those movies shouldn't be scheduled before late night.
- movies have a big bonus to all female audience groups, but male audience groups dont like it.
- movies have a big bonus to children and a bonus to men, geeks and women, but elders dont like it.
- movies have a big bonus to geeks and a bonus to children, but elders dont like it.

The players will be able to produce special content once they buy the corresponding upgrade at 300 fame, but added a custom game option to have that upgrade on day 1. Also now, the player made content have a chance to become cult content when it gets high audiences during the emission of the content.

Movie Archive
The new movie archive keeps records of all your produced movies during the same game. In there you will be able to see how many points you assigned in each category in the production process and the score you got in each of them. Also you can use the previous movies as a template, and assign the same point distribution into your new production with just one button.
And finally the movie archive also keeps a record of the awards that won each movie that you produced.

Second Seasons
Now you can produce sequels, prequels, spin offs and new seasons of your produced content!
To do so, the scriptwriters can produce special scripts based on the previous movies that you produced. Those scripts have special bonus and tend to have higher probability to become a master script. Then you can keep the actors that performed at your first production and they will get a bonus in performance, and finally in the production window you can choose what type(sequel,prequel, new season,,,) of content you want to do.

Workers
- New worker: Content Specialist.
This worker increases the freshness recovery of your content and greatly reduces the reroll cost for ads and movies.
- The Public Relations now also reduces the cost of hiring actors.
- The Hacker now also reduces the monetary penalty of any police mail.
- Fixed the tooltip of the Community Manager ultimate.
- Reworked the way in which workers appear in the hire worker window, and now one of each type are guaranteed.


Custom channel logos
This is the first iteration to customize the tv stations logotypes in Empire TV. Once you launch the game with the v1.5, the game will create a folder logos under your local folder. This folder have 3 transparent images (80x60) named logoBlue, logoRed and logoGreen. Feel free to modify those images with the logotypes that you want for each channel. This images will be shown in the TV Picture (bottom left) and in the main floor of each player (floors 1, 5 and 9) near the elevator.

New languages and custom translation
The game have been translated to French, Russian and Portuguese (movie names are still in english, but fans will be able to modify, add and translate them through mods and the steam workshop).

With this version you are able to create your own translations and/or modify existing ones. Once you launch the game with the v1.5, the game will create a folder translations under your local folder. This folder will contain 7 files (6 for each language available in the game and 1 for your custom translation).

The 6 language files are here for reference, that means that if you modify any of this 6 files the changes will not be shown ingame. On the other hand, the Translation_custom.xml is a file with a custom translation that you can modify and share with your own translation (or a improved one) for the game. To use this translation, while you are ingame, select Options/Language/Custom.



Other fixes
- Added the channel names in the floor selection window in the elevator.
- Removed the movie tag, now the content made by players is listed with the name in blue.
- Added the current episode number in the tv show tag.
- Raised the max number of movies you can have to 35.
- Added a new smiley (dark red) for the really hated content.
- Added over 200 new movies and tv shows
- Added a button to reset your game global stats.
- Modified the color of some texts in the game to make them more clear.
- TONS of quality of life fixes

We are really happy with this patch. Of course we will be adding more features and improvements over time and more options to do more varied mods with the workshop. We will continue fixing any new bug that appears with this patch while we plan new features, and also we are finishing a version of the game for tablets, we hope to have it ready for this summer.

As always, thank you all for your support!!

Hello everybody! After some delays, we present you Empire TV Tycoon Enhanced Edition. This patch was going to be the version 1.3 of the game, but we’ve added so much new features, upgrades and implemented lots of your suggestions -during those last months- that we decided to skip 2 game versions, so this patch will become Empire TV Tycoon v1.5, also known as Empire TV Tycoon Enhanced Edition.

Due to the massive changes, improvements and new features that have been added to the game with this patch, the 1.2.3 save files (latest stable build) aren't compatible with the 1.5 version. But as usual, the old version is available under the “beta” option of Steam Library for Empire TV Tycoon, so if you still want to finish your saved games, you can revert your game to the 1.2.3 version and keep playing.

The new features of Empire TV Enhanced Edition are:

Mods and Workshop
Empire TV Tycoon v1.5 include mod support and steam workshop. Right now with mods you will be able to modify or add the following:
- Add new movies into the game and modify any value(name,genre,score...) of the existing movies of the game. Also add a poster for your movies, visible in the movie tag, and Add or Modify the lower left image that appears in the tv for each movie when it's on air.
- Add new ads and Modify any value(name, description, rewards...) of the existing ads of the game. Also add a poster for your ads, visible in the ad tag, and Add or Modify the lower left image that appears in the tv for each ad when it's on air.
- Add new actors with their photos and Modify any value(name, prefered genres...) of the existing actors of the game, and add a custom photo for them.
- Add new news and Modify any value(description, genre...) of the existing news of the game, and add a custom tv image for them.
- More options will be added over time (feel free to make your suggestions in this subject).

Antennas Map
The antennas map is our new progression system for the game. We weren't 100% happy with the progression system that we had in which you had to buy 2 upgrades for increasing your max audience, it was a little simple and the audience numbers increments were too drastic, so we wanted to change it at some point. Also, the community was nostalgic of how Mad TV handled this issue and suggested us to do something similar, we were a little hesitant at first because we thought it wasn't needed and we didn't want to make the exact same system that Mad TV had.

Finally, we decided to implement it but in our own way and with a twist, buying antennas will not only increase your channel max audience, it will also attract a specific audience groups that you choose and make them watch more your channel.

With this feature you will be able to customize your channel even further and thus if you decide to specialize only in one genre or audience group and only buy antennas that attract that group you will start noticing with each antenna than more and more hours of you daily schedule is filled with your prefered audience groups. This opens even more the possibility to make a themed channel because buying the right antennas will fill all your scheduled hours with your selected groups.

Reworked Ads
We have changed how the ads works in the game, thanks to the new progression system with the antennas. Now, to complete an ad you must achieve a minimum of viewers, based on a % of your channel average potency (which you upgrade buying new antennas).
The required viewers and % to complete an ad varies depending of the ad and his difficulty, also keep in mind that harder ads gives better rewards. When you are playing a game you will see new and harder ads appearing while the easier ones disappear during the game progress.

We have also added over 50 new ads in the game to make things more varied and interesting.

Special Content
With this patch we introduced 6 new tags for default content and also for player made content, those tags add another layer of options and possibilities on top of the movie genre types. The special content gives a bonus to normal movies making them even more liked by specific audience groups.
- movies have a bonus to all audience groups.
- <+16> movies have a bonus to all audience groups, but children shouldn't watch them.
- movies have a huge bonus to elders and a big bonus to other male audience groups, but female audience groups don't like it. Those movies shouldn't be scheduled before late night.
- movies have a big bonus to all female audience groups, but male audience groups don’t like it.
- movies have a big bonus to children and a bonus to men, geeks and women, but elders don’t like it.
- movies have a big bonus to geeks and a bonus to children, but elders don’t like it.

The players will be able to produce special content once they buy the corresponding upgrade at 300 fame, but added a custom game option to have that upgrade on day 1. Also now, the player made content have a chance to become cult content when it gets high audiences during the emission of the content.

Movie Archive
The new movie archive keeps records of all your produced movies during the same game. In there you will be able to see how many points you assigned in each category in the production process and the score you got in each of them. Also you can use the previous movies as a template, and assign the same point distribution into your new production with just one button.
And finally the movie archive also keeps a record of the awards that won each movie that you produced.

Second Seasons
Now you can produce sequels, prequels, spin offs and new seasons of your produced content!
To do so, the scriptwriters can produce special scripts based on the previous movies that you produced. Those scripts have special bonus and tend to have higher probability to become a master script. Then you can keep the actors that performed at your first production and they will get a bonus in performance, and finally in the production window you can choose what type(sequel,prequel, new season,,,) of content you want to do.

Workers
- New worker: Content Specialist.
This worker increases the freshness recovery of your content and greatly reduces the reroll cost for ads and movies .
- The Public Relations now also reduces the cost of hiring actors.
- The Hacker now also reduces the monetary penalty of any police mail.
- Fixed the tooltip of the Community Manager ultimate.
- Reworked the way in which workers appear in the hire worker window, and now one of each type are guaranteed.


Custom channel logos
This is the first iteration to customize the tv stations logotypes in Empire TV. Once you launch the game with the v1.5, the game will create a folder ‘logos’ under your local folder. This folder have 3 transparent images (80x60) named logoBlue, logoRed and logoGreen. Feel free to modify those images with the logotypes that you want for each channel. This images will be shown in the TV Picture (bottom left) and in the main floor of each player (floors 1, 5 and 9) near the elevator.

New languages and custom translation
The game have been translated to French, Russian and Portuguese (movie names are still in english, but fans will be able to modify, add and translate them through mods and the steam workshop).

With this version you are able to create your own translations and/or modify existing ones. Once you launch the game with the v1.5, the game will create a folder ‘translations’ under your local folder. This folder will contain 7 files (6 for each language available in the game and 1 for your custom translation).

The 6 language files are here for reference, that means that if you modify any of this 6 files the changes will not be shown ingame. On the other hand, the ‘Translation_custom.xml’ is a file with a custom translation that you can modify and share with your own translation (or a improved one) for the game. To use this translation, while you are ingame, select Options/Language/Custom.



Other fixes
- Added the channel names in the floor selection window in the elevator.
- Removed the movie tag, now the content made by players is listed with the name in blue.
- Added the current episode number in the tv show tag.
- Raised the max number of movies you can have to 35.
- Added a new smiley (dark red) for the really hated content.
- Added over 200 new movies and tv shows
- Added a button to reset your game global stats.
- Modified the color of some texts in the game to make them more clear.
- TONS of quality of life fixes

We are really happy with this patch. Of course we will be adding more features and improvements over time and more options to do more varied mods with the workshop. We will continue fixing any new bug that appears with this patch while we plan new features, and also we are finishing a version of the game for tablets, we hope to have it ready for this summer.

As always, thank you all for your support!!

A quick patch to address some issues.

- Fixed the worker bug on Linux (yay! finally).
- Fixed the problem with some phrases making those larger than needed.
- You can no longer buy livecontent from past daily events in the movie library,
- Fixed the non-target ads not appearing in custom mode.
- Fixed a few grammatical errors and bugs.

Thank you all for your support.

A quick patch to address some issues.

- Fixed the worker bug on Linux (yay! finally).
- Fixed the problem with some phrases making those larger than needed.
- You can no longer buy livecontent from past daily events in the movie library,
- Fixed the non-target ads not appearing in custom mode.
- Fixed a few grammatical errors and bugs.

Thank you all for your support.

A quick patch with:

- Improved German translation (thanks to Scorcher24 and Kadele).
- Added the option in custom game to play with infinite money.
- Channel specialization now increases the chances that audience groups, that like your chosen genre specialization, watch the tv more often than other audience groups.
- Rerolling your movie library will always grant two movies with the same genre of your channel specialization (if you decided to customize your channel with one genre).
- Changed love/hate calculations in custom mode when choosing random audience likes/dislikes.
- With the last patch (1.2.1) we added autosave games as restore points in case of corrupted savegames. With this patch if you lose your savegame (unexpected crash, etc), the game will always try to load old savegames.
- Some minor graphical and bug fixes.

Thank you all for your support and happy new year!

A quick patch with:

- Improved German translation (thanks to Scorcher24 and Kadele).
- Added the option in custom game to play with infinite money.
- Channel specialization now increases the chances that audience groups, that like your chosen genre specialization, watch the tv more often than other audience groups.
- Rerolling your movie library will always grant two movies with the same genre of your channel specialization (if you decided to customize your channel with one genre).
- Changed love/hate calculations in custom mode when choosing random audience likes/dislikes.
- With the last patch (1.2.1) we added autosave games as restore points in case of corrupted savegames. With this patch if you lose your savegame (unexpected crash, etc), the game will always try to load old savegames.
- Some minor graphical and bug fixes.

Thank you all for your support and happy new year!

Weve made some changes to the save/load system in order to fix the problem with the corrupted savegame bug that appeared with the 1.2.0 version in some situations. Current broke savegames will not work still but the bug is not expected to come back.

Also, weve introduced points of restoration so if something similar happens again you will only lose minutes of gameplay instead of the full savegame.

This hotfix taked more than expected because xmas time :)

We’ve made some changes to the save/load system in order to fix the problem with the corrupted savegame bug that appeared with the 1.2.0 version in some situations. Current broke savegames will not work still but the bug is not expected to come back.

Also, we’ve introduced points of restoration so if something similar happens again you will only lose minutes of gameplay instead of the full savegame.

This hotfix taked more than expected because xmas time :)

The Empire TV Tycoon 1.2.0 patch includes a new feature for the game, custom mode, among other minor improvements and bug fixes.

The game is now fully translated to German thanks to Scocher24 and Kadele, with their MASSIVE HELP and work translating the different texts, movies, etc. This is the first of the planned translations, but not the only one, more translations will come.

Custom mode
One of our priorities with Empire TV Tycoon development has always been replayability. We want to give you the chance to experience different kind of games each time you play and with this patch we want to introduce you the Custom mode.

With custom mode you now can fully customize lots of options for your game, some of them are: defining winning conditions like fame, audience or endless play, removing audience groups you don't like, change the number of audience bans you want for the game, defining various monetary options and the most important: you can randomize the likes of every audience group making every game feel like a fresh start as you discover what they like or dislike.

Bugs fixes:
- fixed a bug that displayed incorrect episode numbers on the management screen when the tv shows were larger than 1 block
- fixed some tv shows which had an incorrect number of episodes
- different minor bugs fixed


Thank you all for your support.

The Empire TV Tycoon 1.2.0 patch includes a new feature for the game, custom mode, among other minor improvements and bug fixes.

The game is now fully translated to German thanks to Scocher24 and Kadele, with their MASSIVE HELP and work translating the different texts, movies, etc. This is the first of the planned translations, but not the only one, more translations will come.

Custom mode
One of our priorities with Empire TV Tycoon development has always been replayability. We want to give you the chance to experience different kind of games each time you play and with this patch we want to introduce you the Custom mode.

With custom mode you now can fully customize lots of options for your game, some of them are: defining winning conditions like fame, audience or endless play, removing audience groups you don't like, change the number of audience bans you want for the game, defining various monetary options and the most important: you can randomize the likes of every audience group making every game feel like a fresh start as you discover what they like or dislike.

Bugs fixes:
- fixed a bug that displayed incorrect episode numbers on the management screen when the tv shows were larger than 1 block
- fixed some tv shows which had an incorrect number of episodes
- different minor bugs fixed


Thank you all for your support.

This is the first major patch for Empire TV. With this patch we want to address some of the feedback that we received during this past month since the release of the game in steam. We’ve also added many new features and minor improvements as we could in this short time.

Endless Mode

This is the first iteration of the endless game mode. Now, when you start a game, you can choose to play in arcade or endless mode. Endless mode will let you play without the pressure of the competition, you can develop your tv channel at your own pace. You will never lose the game going bankrupt (money can still be a problem) and getting behind in fame will only hurt your ego, the audience will love you anyway!

Arcade mode is the same mode we had before, a race vs the others channels to see who is the first to reach 300 fame in normal difficulty or 600 fame in advanced/expert difficulties. When one channel reach the fame cap, wins, and the game ends. At this point, thanks to the addition of endless mode, whether you win or lose the game you can keep playing that same game in endless mode seamlessly.

AIs and Upgrades

We have reworked the way in which the AIs buy upgrades, so first we had to normalize the fame score system for Advanced and Expert modes, now the fame you get in those modes is the same that in normal mode, +3 for winning the audience in on block, +2 for second place and +1 for third place.

Now the AIs will always buy the upgrades when they have enough fame, so the IAs no longer insta buy the upgrades when you do.

The only exception to this are the two audience upgrades, and only in arcade mode, to maintain the race interesting. When you buy the audience upgrades the AIs will wait a prudential time and then buy them, you will still have some hours of advantage over the AIs if you buy the upgrades first.

Channel customization

We want to give players a little bit more control over what their channel is about and what content to schedule. For this reason we implemented some new features for the game.

When you start a new game you can specialize your channel in a genre, doing so you will get certain advantages in that genre.

We’ve introduced two new features to the game: audience bans and channel news.

Audience bans are free and you will get a fixed amount of bans each day (number changes with difficulty). It will give you the option to remove audience groups from the sofa at a given time. Let's say we have women and geeks in one hour and we want to schedule a sci-fi movie there, we can use one audience ban and remove the woman, leaving just the geek group at the sofa ready to watch our sci-fi movie.

Channel news are a new kind of block usable on the marketing column. News are genre specific, have a cost and a variable number of blocks (the news reset every day).

Each news block have two purposes. First, it adds a flat percent audience increase in its own genre. Second, and most important, it will add one audience group based on its genre to the sofa, if there is enough room.

Best Movie Award

We wanted to give more importance to the movies that win the best movie award (besides the fame and gold prize). If you are lucky enough to win the award with one of your productions or buy a winner movie produced by the AI, you will be able to broadcast it on your channel with a flat viewer audience bonus based on the production and state of the game.

Linux is back

After some changes we have reenabled the linux version but it will only work for Ubuntu 12.04+ and SteamOS+.

Other changes

- Added two new types of production: mini series (5 ep. tv shows) and long duration tv shows (15 ep.)
- New tooltip at the audience numbers that tells you all the audience bonus of the movie being broadcasted on your channel
- New tooltips for difficulties and game modes in the new game menu
- Now movies carry a lot more audience over the next movie block.
- The -by player- tag is now highlighted to help differentiate content
- Added a few more daily quest to complement the endless mode
- Changed the fame bar to show the three channel's fame
- Work finished and daily quest mails are deleted automatically after a day
- After a short identity crisis, the musicians are back to being rockers
- Children no longer watch the tv after 10 pm, but they appear more often in the afternoon
- Some audience groups had minor changes in their likes
- Rebalanced the money cost of actors
- Rebalanced the salary of the workers
- You can now resign your game at anytime
- Graphical and color improvements in some screens of the game
- The pink screen and the production bugs are finally fixed
- Fixed some minor bugs

This patch includes features and adjustments to core functionalities, because of it this version is incompatible with any savegame prior to 1.1.0.

We are sorry that we don't have the game in german yet, we hope to have it fully translated before christmas (big thanks to the community members who are contributing to it!).

We are really happy with this patch, those new features will get even better and more content will be added over time. We are a small team of two people and we want to keep improving the game more and more, in fact we already working in a way to make custom games where you will be able to select the parameters of every game. As always, be free to post your suggestions on the discussion boards!

Thank you all for your support.

And a new one! More a hotfix than a patch.

This time includes:

- Fixing some things to finally avoid the pink screen bug (we will see).
- Added an option in the menu to turn on/off the audience smiles.
- You can now edit the text of the scripts or erase it to make your own.
- The worker animation is working again.

By the way, we can't deploy a new patch each day, this are exceptions! haha :P

One week ago we released Empire Tv Tycoon on Steam and we couldn't be more grateful, so far everything is going well and we got valuable feedback from all of you.

Currently we are working on improving the game as much as we can and trying to make it more user friendly, really soon you will see the first pass of endless mode and also we are reworking the system that handles how the IA buy the upgrades in order to be more fair for the player. Fame punctuation system in advanced and expert mode will suffer changes too to behave exactly like normal mode.

This new patch includes:

- Renamed the name of the patches, no more silly letters.
- Fixed some minor bugs.
- Made some changes to prevent the pink screen bug (we hope it’s finally gone).
- key should no longer stop working when going in conflict with secondary mouse button.
- You can now sort movies by rating in the movie buy/sell windows.
- The quest warning now disappears if you schedule something that meets the requirements for the optional quest.
- The movie award warning now says which genre you will need for the awards and the npc will be gone, if you have already submitted a production, when loading a saved game.


Lastly, but not less important. We are aware that the feedback the game gives to you when broadcasting a production in TV was a bit incomplete (remember that the best way to get this knowledge is looking at the statistics board in your office and compare results).

In order to fix this we have implemented a feature so you will now be able to see what the current audience thinks of the content that is being broadcasted. If you look closely at the audience (bottom right) you will notice that they now express their reactions to the production that is being selected on the TV (bottom left). This will give you a small hint about what to program for every kind of audience.

And that’s all.. for now!

Another quick patch with some tweaks.

- Fixed more bugs.
- Fixed some tooltips.
- Added a new warning window, to help you remember important things.
-The Rockers are now Musicians, a bit less gothic, however they still like a good horror movie.
- Increased the freshness recovery rate in advanced and expert difficulties.
- The Mail and the log window have been moved in higher resolutions.

This is not the endless mode patch, bear in mind that we still need to fix things and keep improving the game while we are working on it.

A quick patch to address some issues.

- Fixed a few graphical glitches and bugs.
- Doubled the speed of the elevator. YAY!
- You can pause the game with space bar. However you can't pause it while programing your channel window and in the statistics panel. This is intended because we want to give a fixed amount of time to the player to assume this kind of decisions.
- Reduced the cost of marketing campaigns.
- Tripled the speed of freshness recharge rate for movies and tv-shows in normal difficulty.
- Reduced the cost of the upgrades for normal difficulty in order to do the transition between the different audience stages smoother.

On a side note, we consider the normal difficulty as the one in which new players learn how to play the game, because of this, game ends faster and everything is easier with large bonus to money and audiences. If you ended the game in normal and you won by a large fame margin over the competition we strongly recommend you to play the game in advanced difficulty.

Patch is on hold until a bug with the tutorial is fixed, sorry for the inconvenience -

A quick patch to address some issues.

- Fixed a few graphical glitches and bugs.
- Doubled the speed of the elevator. YAY!
- You can pause the game with space bar. However you can't pause it while programing your channel window and in the statistics panel. This is intended because we want to give a fixed amount of time to the player to assume this kind of decisions.
- Reduced the cost of marketing campaigns.
- Tripled the speed of freshness recharge rate for movies and tv-shows in normal difficulty.
- Reduced the cost of the upgrades for normal difficulty in order to do the transition between the different audience stages smoother.

On a side note, we consider the normal difficulty as the one in which new players learn how to play the game, because of this, game ends faster and everything is easier with large bonus to money and audiences. If you ended the game in normal and you won by a large fame margin over the competition we strongly recommend you to play the game in advanced difficulty.

Today we are proud to finally release Empire TV Tycoon on Steam and we just want to take this time to extend our gratitude to all those people that helped us testing the game and gave their feedback, making the game even better.

Dreamsite Games is an indie team of 2 people, and we have been working on Empire TV Tycoon for some time now. However, not all the features that we had planned have made their way into the final game, because we had to cut somewhere to be able to release it. That doesn't meant that the game is finished and that we stop working on it, on the opposite, after the release we will still work on the game, catch and fix as many bugs as we can, and also introduce new features with future patches.

Some of the things and new features that we would want to add are:

- More of everything (movies, tv shows, actors, daily events, production events, etc.).
- Adding the remaining graphics to some daily events that are currently missing, and adding even more graphics to the others.
- Translations (german and russian coming soon!)
- More options and decisions in the process of creating your own content.
- Random rare events, f.ex. “someone sells you a mysterious script or rare movie”.
- Sequels for movies and second seasons for tv shows.
- Auction system, to win the rights of special events or tv shows.
- Adult content, for the late hours of the night ;)
- Token system, win tokens by completing quest, and spend them in special bonuses
- Sabotage system, a way to sabotage the other channels productions or their tv schedule.
- Multiplayer, play with 2 friends and compete to see who is the best.

Well those are things that we always had in mind for the game, However, truth be told, some of them may, or may not, ever come to light, because we are a small team and we have to focus on what is most important first.

We wanted to share this with you and sincerely hope that you enjoy our game.

0th October is the day that Empire TV Tycoon will see the light. We are still fixing the latest bugs, polishing some things, working on texts and translations and trying to have everything ready for the big event!

Thank you all for your support all this months while we were developing the game!