Dev Diary 27/2024: End Week Changes for Network Management Complete

Just in time for Halloween, we’ve got some spook-tacular news about the upcoming Manage Your Own Network update! 🎃 If you’re not following us on social, we’ve started sharing sneak peeks of what’s to come. So, if you want more frequent snippets on our progress, join us on Discord, Instagram, Threads, or X!

Next Time on Endless Studio…

Since our last Dev Diary, we’ve wrapped up everything needed for End Week in the 2024.4 release:

• Typically, when your studio releases an episode to the network, the budget is paid out. But with this update, if you own both the network and the studio, the budget simply circulates within your in-house ventures, sharing the same cash balance!
• Before, only your studio could level up. Now, you can level up across three different types of networks and an overarching TV company, each with its own leveling logic. So, we’ve restructured how level-ups work within your company.
• We’ve tweaked the number of show pitches other studios can send to your networks, based on your network’s level.
• There’s a new event alerting you when an AI studio finishes a season for your network, so you can get it scheduled right away.
• A fresh logic calculates your network revenues, complete with an event that shows these gains on the Weekly Events screen.
• There’s also a new system to calculate weekly episode acquisition costs for your networks.
• Annual Network Subscriber count changes have been updated to be more responsive to your network’s performance.

Up next, we’ll be adding Network-Specific Difficulty Settings. After that, we’re ready to start Game Testing the complete network management gameplay and refine the balance as needed. This is the last step before we can set a launch date for the update, so stay tuned for more info in our next Dev Diary! 🤩

Here’s a snapshot of what’s done and what’s still on deck for the 2024.4 update:

• New Starting Screens & Edit Screen Update
• New Starting Room
• Company Portfolio Screen
• Adjustments to Costs & Revenues
• New Level Up Screen
• New Ad Sales Office
• Updates to the Scheduling Office
• Updates to the Briefing Room
• Updates to End Week
• New Network-Specific Difficulty Settings
• Game Testing & Balancing
• New Tutorial
• Knowledge Base Updates
• Final Touches and Release

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This setup lets our amazing fans directly back our tiny studio. While we aren’t fully covering development costs yet, we’re confident that with your help, we’ll get there. If you haven’t subscribed yet and can, please consider doing so via Game Menu (bottom right) > Supporter Subscription!

With a Level 1 Supporter Subscription, you’ll help speed up development and enjoy an ad-free experience. At Level 2, you’ll also get access to over 1500 Promo Images for your shows, Early Access to new features, Feature Voting, and a spot in our Hall of Fame!

Thank you so much for your support — we’re always working hard to bring you the best experience possible! 😘

Feature Voting Status Report

Our Level 2 Supporters have a big say in what we develop next through the monthly votes on the Feature Voting screen. We’re currently in Voting Season 3, which will wrap up when the winner of the last season, the Manage Your Own Network feature, launches with update 2024.4. Here’s a look at the current Top 5 features:

• Planned Show Ending: 3472 votes
• Critics & Awards: 2522 votes
• Feature Movies: 1175 votes
• Producing Whole Seasons: 815 votes
• More Talent Variety: 548 votes

That’s all folks! 🐷 Happy studio building, and stay tuned for more updates from Endless Studio! 📺