Appetizer Course 2: Book those roles ya filthy animal!
Every year, the 150 movie studios and 35 TV networks in the game launch 700+ randomly generated movies, TV shows and pilots - offering over 5000 new roles to book for your actors.
It’s wise to get them scripts assessed by script consultants before you submit a client - unless your Knowledge skill is pretty high - because putting your thesps on terrible movies will eat into their Fame and destroy their Confidence and Morale. Not to mention your chances of receiving any backend bonus on these flicks are as low as Jew Lebowski's energy level.
Remember Nicholas Cage? John Travolta anybody? Well, their agents definitely did not do their homework with the scripts of ’The Wicker Man’ or ’Battlefield Earth’ and the rest of those crapfests they appeared in.
Though Cattle Call tries to inject some humor in the genre, it's still very much an in-depth simulation of the film- and TV industry with a lot of research behind its stats and algorithms. This means you'll face all the inequalities Hollywood "offers" today when it comes to roles: gender&racial inequality, pay gap, age gap - you'll get it all.
Appetizer Course 1: Find ‘em and sign ‘em!
We thought we'd be making a few posts about Cattle Call until the game is released to explain its key features a bit more and so (hopefully) tickle your appetites as well :)
Let's start with the game's most important "elements": the actors.
Cattle Call sports a database of 30,000+ actors (about one third of them are in the game at the start, the rest joins in the following years, partly to replace retiring actors), so you have a considerably large pond to catch fish from.
Actors have different looks (the character generator builds up their “photo” by randomly combining the available parts: head, hair, eye, clothes, colors, etc.), acting skills, physical and mental attributes, personalities, backstories, special skills, special needs, so each of them is unique and each of them requires different “treatment” to maximize their potential.
- Does an actor have low “Humor” attribute? Submitting him/her to comedy roles may not be the best idea.
- Does an actor have an “Unconventional” look and a “Chunky” body type? Well, he will probably never be an “A-list” movie star but he can still be an acclaimed character actor.
- Does an actor have outstanding talent but low “Professionalism”? Well...pray that he/she doesn’t break the set before filming is over.
And here...we...go!
Dear Peoples,
We are excited (=full fledged nervous racks) to announce that our first game,( for which we have shed a lot of blood, sweat, tears...and money), Cattle Call: Hollywood Talent Manager will arrive to Early Access at the end of October.
We are here to answer any questions mucho quickly, so - fire away, don't be gun-shy.
Otherwise, it's also completely legal to Wishlist the game now, so this might be a good idea that you may want to consider, too :)
