Post by evenflow1994 on Jan 15, 2022 18:11:28 GMT
Hi, just wanted to share some ideas I had for the game I already think this is a super fun game, and I'm really looking forward to see what you come up with
- Picking a company style (What kind of stuff is produced here? For instance companies like Annapurna or A24 produce more artistic movies, while Blumhouse produce low-budget horror. Disney produce family films etc.)
- OWAs (Open writing assignments - my idea is after you've created the basic details for the film, you can invite x number of writers in to pitch on the project. And each of them would present different set of sliders for the movie. Maybe this would require too much coding, I genuinly don't know anything about that, so apologies if my ideas are unrealistic.)
- Writers and/or directors coming to you and pitching stuff
- Bidding wars (where you go up against the different production companies to buy the script on the market. Maybe it could happen in a specific week in the year, where there is an auction style bidding war)
- The writers, directors and actors have topics they are good at (I think this could be fun because I often bring in people who would normally not work on a given project, and this would force me to cast a wider net so to speak. But also create the possibility where a new writer/director comes in and they have such a unique and specific voice. I'm thinking when Ari Aster came out with Hereditary, or when Jordan Peele came out with Get Out)
- New genre: Folk (under horror)
- New genre: Art house (I genuinly don't know if this should be a genre, a sub-genre, or a topic on its own. Some of my favourite art-house films are wrapped in specific genres. Tarkovsky's Stalker, for instance, being a science fiction film. Or 8½ being a comedy. But I love arthouse movies, and think it would be cool to produce movies that are considered that)
- Directors giving a casting list (people they want acting in their movie)
- Directors proposing a budget (I think this could even help with some genre stuff. If you make a musical, the emphasis would be on the score, if you make an action film, they'd emphasise the stunt crew etc)
- The ability to fire a writer after they've done a rewrite and bring in your own people (or at least ask them to do more than one rewrite)
- When you go into production and want to find a director, the writer gives their opinion on whom they'd like to direct it.
- The director's pass (where they give the script a rewrite after their tastes)
- Production company's location (which could be used affect which crew would be available. Maybe this would be too big for the database. But I think this would be another fun way of expanding the people who are availabe/want to work for you. If you're a Danish company, sure you can hire Lars von Trier, but maybe not Kaufmann.)
- How much creative control do you want to give to the filmmakers?
- Relationship between characters (are they family members? Antagonist? This could also have casting implications)
- Co-productions
- Shelving a project (if the script isn't where you want it to be, and then the rights would fall back to the writer. Or if a year passed and you still hadn't put the project into production, the rights would fall back to the writer.)
- Picking a company style (What kind of stuff is produced here? For instance companies like Annapurna or A24 produce more artistic movies, while Blumhouse produce low-budget horror. Disney produce family films etc.)
- OWAs (Open writing assignments - my idea is after you've created the basic details for the film, you can invite x number of writers in to pitch on the project. And each of them would present different set of sliders for the movie. Maybe this would require too much coding, I genuinly don't know anything about that, so apologies if my ideas are unrealistic.)
- Writers and/or directors coming to you and pitching stuff
- Bidding wars (where you go up against the different production companies to buy the script on the market. Maybe it could happen in a specific week in the year, where there is an auction style bidding war)
- The writers, directors and actors have topics they are good at (I think this could be fun because I often bring in people who would normally not work on a given project, and this would force me to cast a wider net so to speak. But also create the possibility where a new writer/director comes in and they have such a unique and specific voice. I'm thinking when Ari Aster came out with Hereditary, or when Jordan Peele came out with Get Out)
- New genre: Folk (under horror)
- New genre: Art house (I genuinly don't know if this should be a genre, a sub-genre, or a topic on its own. Some of my favourite art-house films are wrapped in specific genres. Tarkovsky's Stalker, for instance, being a science fiction film. Or 8½ being a comedy. But I love arthouse movies, and think it would be cool to produce movies that are considered that)
- Directors giving a casting list (people they want acting in their movie)
- Directors proposing a budget (I think this could even help with some genre stuff. If you make a musical, the emphasis would be on the score, if you make an action film, they'd emphasise the stunt crew etc)
- The ability to fire a writer after they've done a rewrite and bring in your own people (or at least ask them to do more than one rewrite)
- When you go into production and want to find a director, the writer gives their opinion on whom they'd like to direct it.
- The director's pass (where they give the script a rewrite after their tastes)
- Production company's location (which could be used affect which crew would be available. Maybe this would be too big for the database. But I think this would be another fun way of expanding the people who are availabe/want to work for you. If you're a Danish company, sure you can hire Lars von Trier, but maybe not Kaufmann.)
- How much creative control do you want to give to the filmmakers?
- Relationship between characters (are they family members? Antagonist? This could also have casting implications)
- Co-productions
- Shelving a project (if the script isn't where you want it to be, and then the rights would fall back to the writer. Or if a year passed and you still hadn't put the project into production, the rights would fall back to the writer.)