Remember Stunt Island?

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2005-10-18 05:50pm

If I recall, Poe used to have a big page on it about a hypothetical successor; to Stunt Island well a few days ago, I saw a game pre-order box at my local EB Games that looked a lot like stunt Island. Was called "THE MOVIES"

*looks at website*

Linka

...wait...it's from that idiot who did Black and White 2 and looks like it's SIMS 2 but with a movie studio...nevermind...

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-10-18 05:54pm

It's SIMS 2? That's terrible! I was looking forward to it, I thought it was basically a freeform movie-making game/tool with SIMs style graphics!

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-10-18 05:56pm

I've been following "The Movies" for ages now. Its more like "Sim Cinema" than Stunt Island. And HOW DARE YOU MOCK THE GREAT PETER MOLYNEAUX!

I want a remake of "Stunt Island" though.

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2005-10-18 06:12pm

Stunt Island was pure bliss...I can still remember those crazy upside-down thru-barn flights...

Movies doesnt look at all impressive.

I want someone to make Stunt Island 2

Laughing Mechanicus · Post by **Laughing Mechanicus** » 2005-10-18 06:16pm

The Movies has two distinct parts - one is very like Theme Park, you manage you studio lot and have to keep you Stars/Directors happy (thats where the Sims-ish part comes in), build sets and new facilities (such as trailers for stars, restrooms etc...).

The second part is the movie maker, that allows you to make movies using the sets you have built on your studio lot by piecing together scenes and dressing the sets with props, choosing actors, costuming them etc... then editing it all in post production and adding music, sound effects and voice overs. Once you've made a movie you release it and it generates money, which is how you get money to spend on your studio lot.

Also if one wishes there is a sandbox mode that lets you turn off all the management and Sim gameplay elements and simply concentrate on making movies, you can also set how much cash you have and what year you start in too (starting in 1920s means you can only make silent films etc...).

I know this because I worked on it at Lionhead studios as a tester.

HSRTG · Post by **HSRTG** » 2005-10-18 08:29pm

Argh, I thought this was news of sequal. I loved Stunt Island, parashuting on to a raft, and rescuing people from UFOs was fun. I never got the knack of that difficult thing known as "Landing" though...

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2005-10-18 10:44pm

Awww, so you can't drive F1 cars over jumps, hit the cunningly placed farmhouse, and be sucked into the 'Tornado of Doom Glitch'?

Tolya · Post by **Tolya** » 2005-12-05 06:03pm

No. The Movies suck donkey balls compared to Stunt Island.

I want a remake of Stunt Island.

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-12-05 07:27pm

Yeah, "The Movies" is a Tycoon game with a kind of well implemented movie making system.

I even managed to accidentally create a lesbian porno flick in 1924. It didn't rate well with the critics disappointingly.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2005-12-05 07:32pm

The Movies would be 100 times better if they had just put a little more effort into the part where you actually make a movie and a little less into micromanaging and babysitting. Why the hell did they restrict you to canned scenes, anyway? Why not allow the player to position the actors, position the camera, and then choose animations? Then it wouldn't have felt like you were in a creative straight-jacket.

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-12-05 07:37pm

Have you unlocked stuff like the Advanced script office and script creation facility?

Its one of those that allows you to craft movies with a lot more depth, but it is still pretty restrictive.

Post by **weemadando** » 2005-12-05 07:39pm

Though, I do agree that there is way too much baby-sitting to do. Just let me play around with movies etc, or just let me run the studio. Don't make me do everything.

Arthur_Tuxedo · Post by **Arthur_Tuxedo** » 2005-12-05 07:56pm

The script maker is what I was talking about. No actor placement, no camera control, no controlling individual animations. Total straight jacket.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2005-12-06 01:48am

Arthur_Tuxedo wrote:The script maker is what I was talking about. No actor placement, no camera control, no controlling individual animations. Total straight jacket.

Not exactly. Like Stunt Island before it, you have to learn to "trick" the game into doing what you want. For instance, check out this movie I made with "the Movies", VAMPIRE DAWN.

I "tricked" the camera by making it look like the vampire climbed out of the coffin by using another animation entirely, and by placing a coffin real close to the camera. (I didn't like the comical vampire exit from the coffin.)

I'm having fun with it; lots of promise, especially with expansion packs. But I'd sure love to see Stunt Island 2.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2005-12-06 03:22am

The Movies does have a lot of illogical crap in the movie creation process, but it seems like there are some interesting workarounds.

I agree with Art though, I really do want to place the damn camera myself. In fact, fuck it all, I want to BUILD my own damn set. Sims/Simcity style, god damn it. I want control over the camera and the pans and zooms and all that shit.

It's a nice toy though. Worth a diversion, but I wish I had ignored the hype and waited for it to go down in price.