Hello Animators - It's time! Animation Studio Manager is fully released and is launching with a week-long sale!

Updates:

• Players can no longer acquire the Early Bird (Early Access) designator on their Nametag since the game has transitioned out of Early Access.
  
• SaveGame files that are older than 2 weeks old (prior to build 78) will be deleted to ensure everything works with level 9 Final Perk & the level 10 endings.
  
• Minor text updates throughout.
  

Hello Animators!

Good luck winning the Golden T-Pose Award Show!!

• Fixed a glitch when you hover over "Catch a Break" during an active Perk where the text would repeat infinitely.
  
• Production Employee Award Upgrades at level 7 & 9 now take a day of training just like the level 5 training does.
  
• When you get a match in the Entourage Matching game, a Check Mark appears over the matching cards
  
• Fixed a glitch where at level 10 before the T-Pose Awards, when Mom says "Good Luck", the banner wasn't always updating to say "T-Pose Awards".
  

• Fixed a layering issue on the Office Computer where Tic-Tac-Toe would layer incorrectly over other apps and block the button to close the Apps.
  
• Minor text/graphics clarifications
  
• Minor changes to Mom Level 1 tutorial for clarification
  
• "Pure"/"Corrupt" choice page is much more informative now. It shows your Current Corruption Level and the Final Level 9 Perk options are, so you know what you're going for.
  
• Added a photo of "You and Mom" in your office.
  

Hello Animators! Level 10 is here!

Level 10

Fixes

• Fixed a glitch that was preventing Paparazzi Room Tips from appearing.
  
• Fixed a glitch that was preventing the Matching Game text from appearing
  
• Fixed a glitch where a Fan Demand would remain visible with its timer frozen if you were preparing a Fan Convention. Now the Fan Demand is fulfilled if a Fan Convention is running or being prepared.
  
• Fixed a glitch where the Executive would re-explain how Seasons work if you had completed one season, didn't start building a second one, saved the game and reloaded.
  
• Fixed a glitch when retraining a Corporate Employee, sometimes the Employee count would get assigned to the wrong Department.
  
• Fixed an issue that made the wrong menu pop up if you tried to access the options menu while in a hard-mode game
  
• Red Carpet Dash
  
  
  
  • Fixed a glitch where, after collecting the final Inventory Item it still showed another item on the bucket.
    
  • Fixed a glitch that would freeze the game in Hard mode if you successfully completed the minigame.
    
  
  

Balancing & Quality of Life

• When your mouse hovers over the "Risky Business" icon, it previously only showed if there was an active Perk/Pain, but now it also shows if you received a "Risky Oops", Jackpot, Inventory reward, or Nothing.
  
• Balanced Award Points, mostly lowering the Hard Mode points for the T-Pose Awards as it was very difficult to win unless you turn on absolutely everything and do well in the minigames.
  
• Made the To-Do list a little wider so it reads better
  
• Previously if you got a Risky Business Jackpot, there was a 3% chance you got a 10X Super Jackpot. That has been balanced to a 10% chance of a 3X bonus.
  
• At level 9, Mom will always win Best Picture still, but she is only guaranteed a sub-category win the first time you play against her. After that, she'll only win a sub-category if she has more points, instead of "cheating" to ensure at least one every time.
  

• Switched the new game starting month to April to reflect the new April final release date.
  
• Minor text/graphic fixes/clarifications
  
• Adjusted how the Inventory Rewards of Risky Business payout so it's more useful early on without going overboard in the late game.
  
• Did a complete overhaul of the Hint Popup system to prevent any issues if multiple hints try to pop up at the same time.
  
• Made the clickable region larger for upgrading each Entourage member. You can now click anywhere on the vertical region for that Entourage member.
  
• Fixed a glitch where the "Mega Audience Booster" would allow you to click it if you had 100 Inventory instead of 250.
  
• Fixed a glitch where if you load a saved game at level 9 while the current game has the "Office" button "Level Up" overlay, it wouldn't reset the button to say "Office".
  
• PR Disaster
  
  
  
  • The "Fan Sacrifice" option now also sacrifices Rotted Potato Score. However, this also allows you to use the button when your Fan Rating was previously too low to be used.
    
  • If you use "Employee Sacrifice" and lose HR, IT or Security, it now turns off their Toggles if you don't have enough Employees anymore to use them.
    
• Fan Conventions
  
  
  
  • You can now cancel Fan Conventions. If you Cancel during the planning phase, you lose a lot fewer Fans than if you cancel during the actual Convention.
    
  • Lowered the amount extra you make when a Film goes viral during Fan Conventions.
    
• Award Show / Minigames
  
  
  
  • Fixed an issue where the Finding Balance score bar masking was interfering with the character eyelid masking
    
  • Fixed an issue in the Red Carpet Dash where one of the eyelid options were layered wrong.
    
  • The Award Show now has an audience silhouette to add to the atmosphere.
    
  • Fixed a glitch that would sometimes prevent Mom from winning a sub-category Award in Level 9.
    
  • Fixed a glitch where sometimes the Player would win a Level 9 sub-category Award, but it would show a competitor's Film cover.
    
  • Adjusted the Mom Award Winning Bar Icon to make Mom letters bigger
    
  
  

• Fixed an issue that would crash the game during the Paparazzi game if you played in Easy Mode, had both Writer upgrades, and waited until the timer ran out on a question.
  
• Clarified some wording throughout.
  
• 3 new Level 9 Achievements
  
• Fixed a glitch that prevented some of the Barista Extras & Sweeteners from being impacted by the Catch A Break Coffee Perk boost.
  
• Fan Convention - Ads/Deals were not being properly deducted when you used them for a Fan Convention.
  
• Added the character vocals (like when you click on a desk or office door) when you enter the Barista area, or when Chad pulls you into a Meeting.
  
• Extra Credit - Approvals have been reduced to match the previous adjustments that were made to balancing.
  
• Entourage
  
  
  
  • Added some clarity about using your Entourage Points,
    
  • Added graphic/audio feedback when you spend the points.
    
  • Added text update when you have fully upgraded your Entourage.
    
  
  
• "Skip To Friday"
  
  
  
  • This wasn't very visible before, so now it has replaced the obsolete "Help" button above the play/pause toggle at the bottom-left of the screen.
    
  • Fixed an issue when skipping to Friday during New Years.
    
  • When you hover over it, a little message pops up, explaining either why you can't use it now, or what will happen if you DO use it.
    
    
    
    • You can't use it if it's already Friday, for obvious reasons.
      
    • You can't use it if you have an Award Ceremony on Monday
      
    • And you can't use it during the level 1 tutorial.
      
    
    
  • Added a new "Skip to Friday" sound effect.
    
  
  
• Player Avatar
  
  
  
  • Added Player reflection on the Office Computer Screen
    
  • Added Eye & Eyelid animation to the Player Avatars (except the OMBd one, because that is a picture)
    
  
  
• Award Show
  
  
  
  • The Gold Bar that appears by the winner's points now has 3 variations for clarity.
    
    
    
    • If a normal opponent wins, the Bar is the normal, plain gold bar.
      
    • If YOU win, it is a gold bar with two Stars on it.
      
    • If MOM wins, it is a gold bar that says "MOM"
      
    
    
  • The first time you're going through the Level 7 Award Show and Mom is guiding you, you can't automatically "Skip to End", though you can still click to skip manually through each section.
    
  
  
• Mom Challenge Initiation
  
  
  
  • Level 10 is being developed, but with this hotfix comes the groundwork for accepting Mom's final Challenge.
    
  • After you have won all four sub-category awards at the T-Pose Award Show, mom pops up and offers you her Final Challenge.
    
    
    
    • Or if you've already finished the To-Do list and delayed her Challenge, but don't create an Award-Eligible film, she will still prompt you again for a challenge.
      
    
    
  • You have the option to delay it for 6 weeks or….well that's it. The option to accept it will be there when level 10 is out!
    

Hello Animators!

New!

Player Builder

• Now when you start a new game, you create your own Avatar before creating your Mom Avatar.
  
• Your Avatar appears on your OMBd page now instead of the silhouette.
  
• Your Avatar now is the one at the level 8 Awards minigame instead of the Animator.
  
• Your Avatar is also the one playing the new level 9 Awards minigame as well.
  

Entourage

• You can now unlock the Entourage in the Producer's Office at level 9. It costs 200XP to unlock it.
  
• You have 10 Members of your Entourage who each have their own Perk
  
• Each Perk can be upgraded up to 10 times using Entourage Points
  
• Earn Entourage Points doing the weekly Entourage Card matching game.
  
  
  
  • It costs 50 XP each week to run the matching Game
    
  • Match 10 pairs of Entourage members to earn up to 15 Entourage Points each week
    
  • For each Department you don't match up, they will suffer a drop in happiness!
    
  
  

Red Carpet Dash

• At level 9, you unlock the final Award Ceremony minigame - the Red-Carpet Dash - which begins after you complete the Finding Balance minigame.
  
• This minigame is a variation of the grapple variation of the Catch a Break weekly minigame, except instead of catching one specific Inventory, you must collect a sequence of Inventory. If you collect the full sequence, you earn the maximum points.
  

Tutorials

• Since Tutorials have had a major revamp, everyone's hints have been reset to see them all again.
  
  
  
  • Once you see the new Hint, the game should remember that you've seen it and won't show it again unless you reset hints manually, or click "Play as guest"
    
  • Once you unlock the Level 9 Entourage, you'll be able to skip the tutorial for future play-throughs if you want.
    
  
  
• Barista Hint now pops up in the Coffee Room to ensure the player knows how to switch to Barista mode
  
• A few Hints were removed as they are redundant due to other changes.
  
• Producer/Executive Tutorials
  
  
  
  • Producer Level 5 : He now shows you his office before moving on to HR. This ensures the player sees the Department of the Week and knows where future upgrades will be.
    
  • Executive Level 6:
    
    
    
    • Fixed an issue that happens if all the Production people were out of the office when the Executive is trying to show you how to do Training - which requires at least one person to be in the office.
      
    • Also explains that you earn Rotted Potatoes from TV movies in here now
      
    
    
  • Producer Levels 6-8: The Producer now guides you through the new features instead of just talking about them in his meeting.
    
  • Level 9: Once you unlock the Entourage, the Producer gives you his final guidance.
    
  
  
• All Minigame and Coffee Room Hints have been converted to videos instead of still images so you can see how the minigames operate a little better before playing.
  
  
  
  • This includes the Award show minigames where Mom is texting instructions. You also get a video hint popup for these.
    
  
  
  

Random

• "Catch a Break"
  
  
  
  • Swapped Editor character to the Animator.
    
  • Removed the 4 hour "resting" time for the selected Department.
    
  
  
• Finding Balance
  
  
  
  • Starts with 20 in each bucket in Easy mode
    
  • Fixed a glitch where your fan rating would INCREASE if you failed instead of decreasing it.
    
  
  
• To-Do list
  
  
  
  • Fixed a small glitch on the Level 2 To-Do list, due to last update's balancing
    
  • Level 9 no longer requires PR Disasters (as those happen automatically). Instead, you must earn a certain amount of Entourage Points, based on your difficulty level.
    
  
  
• Ensured that the Award Points were being calculated properly on the Studio Clipboard and the actual Film!
  
• Moved the ability to "Name" Mom to the bottom of her creator page.
  
• Fixed a glitch where some "Media Focus" Producer Perks weren't calculating properly
  
• Going the Corrupt Path now results in more Awards Points.
  
• Added more mom Taunting