Sitting in front of a screen or TV you might think that the process behind filming and producing a movie is a piece of cake. Try and play Dream Factory first. With this Filming Simulator you will ‘dive’ headfirst into the busy world of movie making. Our approach is to look at the industry in an ironic way.
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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“Currently we are complete with a programing side of our game and creating the main style in which we want go further. But the main problem is that for creating additional graphical assets & finishing the game we need the money & feedback from wide range of players. The game have a lot of English mispells and we are working to fix it.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“Before the end of first financial quarter of 2016.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“In a full version will be:
  • Studio building process.
  • Place objects inside buildings.
  • More than 200 hangar objects, which will affect on film’s characteristics.
  • More than 100 objects, which will be affect on character’s characteristics.
  • Assign rooms
  • Screenplay writing.
  • More than 1000 scenarios and variations.
  • Movie shooting process.
  • More than 1000 film scenes and variations.
  • Movie promotion by means of marketing campaign.
  • Solve different complicated tasks and objectives.
  • Level up your characters.
  • More than 30 types of characters & more than 400 variations.
  • Ability to send characters to school & other structures for increasing their skills.
  • Special & unique traits which affect on characters characteristics.
  • Discover new movie genres.
  • Track the needs of your characters.
  • Act according to the cases prescribed in the contract for actresses and actors.
  • Avoid waves of fans.
  • Manage Actors who are affected by traumas and nervous breakdowns or manage situations where Actors have died while shooting a film.
  • Receive awards and participate in exhibitions.
  • Compete with your friends and attract their or other competitors actors to your own studio.
  • Look up the reviews in press after the movie released and track what was done right and what was done wrong.
  • Buy new territory to expand and grow your studio.
  • Story campaign.
  • Epoch changes in graphical/assets view.

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“In this moment you may:
  • Studio building process.
  • Place objects inside buildings.
  • Assign rooms.
  • Screenplay writing.
  • Movie shooting process.
  • Movie promotion by means of marketing campaign.
  • Release movie to the movie rental.
  • Hire personal & actors.
  • Level up your characters.
  • Discover new movie genres.
  • Track the needs of your characters.
  • Increase and level up your studio.

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The price will not differ from Early Access to Final build.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Involve community we are planning with help of following methods:
  • Game forum.
  • Competition in social networks.
  • Competitions on game’s websites.
  • Emailing with everybody who have any questions.
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About This Game

Sitting in front of a screen or TV you might think that the process behind filming and producing a movie is a piece of cake. Try and play Dream Factory first. With this Filming Simulator you will ‘dive’ headfirst into the busy world of movie making.

Dream Factory is a PC (Win, Mac, Linux) and tablet (iOs, Android) based Simulator game. The movie making process doesn't always catch everyone’s attention because everyone likes watching the final result. But many of us really do like to know what lies behind the curtain, behind the stage…

Our approach is to look at the industry in an ironic way. We’ve reviewed many different samples and cliches of both the old and modern Hollywood Industry, and rediscovered the most memorable names who made the filming culture of 20th-21st centuries what it is today.

In Dream Factory you will have to create and organize the movie process, you will have to deal with greedy marketeers and tricky-chicky finance directors, while also having to put all your efforts to butter up capricious actors. On top of this you will have to learn how to build your studio and production company, brick by brick while, dealing with accounting problems and the like.

But it won’t be a boring process, as we aim to take the humor and irony of the real world filming process and bring it into to our game. You can play the demo on our website & give the games mechanics a go.

Our story starts from at the very beginning, that is from brothers Lumiere's era and then continues through epoch by epoch to today and even beyond. That means Dream Factory will give you a glimpse into the future.

In the final version of the game you will engage in the following tasks:
  • Studio building process
  • Screenplay writing
  • Movie shooting process
  • Movie promotion by means of marketing campaign
  • Solve different complicated tasks and objectives
  • Level up your characters
  • Discover new movie genres
  • Track the needs of your characters
  • Act according to the cases prescribed in the contract for actresses and actors
  • Avoid waves of fans
  • Manage Actors who are affected by traumas and nervous breakdowns or manage situations where Actors have died while shooting a film
  • Receive awards and participate in exhibitions
  • Compete with your friends and attract their or other competitors actors to your own studio
  • Look up the reviews in press after the movie released and track what was done right and what was done wrong
  • Buy new territory to expand and grow your studio

We plan to have 21 type of characters with at least 20 modifications to be drawn for each character to provide the game with more variation. All characters are hired via a HR market that is generated randomly during game play. Super-skilled characters (with high fame or status) may be found on the market alongside with unknown ones which you will have to train and grow yourself. Each type of character will posses his or her own modifiers (traits) that will influence certain game aspects. These traits are added to a character when they're born. Also during the process of filming, relationships between your staff may also come into being. These can be both positive and negative. For example, some relationships may influence other characters to leave the studio. We have already show some of the characters we plan to add below, but we plan to add more from the cinema industry, such as Audio Engineers, Movie Directors or Producers, Stage Movie Directors, Janitors, Managers, Handymen, Finance Directors, Marketeers, Costume and Makeup Artists, Extra Actors, Stunt Coordinators.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows XP SP3
    • Processor: AMD Athlon X2 7750 or Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
    • Memory: 256 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 6600GT
    • DirectX: Version 9.0c
    • Storage: 76 MB available space
    • Additional Notes: Mouse
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

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