Popscene (Music Industry Sim)
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About Popscene (Music Industry Sim)
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This music industry sim has gone platinum - celebrating over 1 MILLION downloads!
Bring your MP3 collection to life with animated performances as you embark on a career in music. Form your own band by recruiting talent from over 150 artists across 6 unique labels, or enjoy creating your own stars with the editor. Then record hits that will top the charts and take them on the road to over 20 different venues - including authentic reviews and news reports that determine your legacy. Like "A Rockstar At My Hamster" for the 21st century, Popscene leaves no stone unturned to do for music what Wrestling Revolution did for wrestling! The game is free to download, with the option to purchase a "backstage pass" for even more content.
* Please note that the MP3 player function may not be compatible with some devices. If this affects you, consider turning off MP3 music in the options.
PLAYING GUIDE:
Popscene divides the music making process into entertainment (represented by stars) and artistry (represented by hearts). As in real life, popular music is more likely to shoot up the charts and draw fans - but without substance, the success may be short-lived. Each of the game's many artists has the following attributes that influence this process:
- POPULARITY is the artist's ability to draw fans to entertaining content.
- REPUTATION is their ability to draw fans to artistic content.
- PERFORMANCE is their ability to perform entertaining songs live.
- TALENT is their ability to perform artistic songs live.
- PRODUCTION is their ability to compose entertaining music.
- WRITING is their ability to compose artistic music.
- HAPPINESS is the pleasure they currently get from their work.
- ATTITUDE indicates how likely they are to either contribute or cause trouble.
This is a band management sim, and as a band manager it is your job to recruit stars from the music biz. Each week, depending on the size of your team and their collective attitude, new songs may be recorded. Each member of the team contributes their score to a new song, and whoever scores the highest will be credited with making it. Members who are dedicated backstage staff will contribute twice instead of once - inc the chances of a good song being written.
Once songs exist, it is the on-stage performers who must bring it to life. As with writing, each band member on stage contributes their score and the highest determines how well the song was received in each category. This time, it is the "frontman" who gets to contribute twice instead of once - so consider who is at the forefront.
The overall rating for a show is the average of all the songs performed - albeit slightly more generous so that perfection is not required. This is also true of album reviews. A 5-star performance may consist of consistent 4-star contributions. Reviews are where your performances feed back into the stats that produced them, because each attribute will rise or fall to reflect what just happened.
When booking venues, you must consider how much it will cost versus how much you are likely to recoup. Tickets are sold at $5 per song so it depends how long your set is. You will receive a percentage of this revenue, and must then use that to pay your employees and any other expenses. Singles are sold at $1 each whereas albums are sold at $1 per song for a maximum of $10 (cha-ching!). If you have a week of inactivity, you may find that you make a loss because of the expenses of your lifestyle (which reflects your wealth). On the independent scene, you take a larger chunk of lower revenue so you will have to migrate to a major label eventually.
I regret there is more to this game than I could ever explain here, so enjoy figuring some things out for yourself! Or join the debate over at Facebook to have any curious questions answered:
www.facebook.com/MDickieFans
Bring your MP3 collection to life with animated performances as you embark on a career in music. Form your own band by recruiting talent from over 150 artists across 6 unique labels, or enjoy creating your own stars with the editor. Then record hits that will top the charts and take them on the road to over 20 different venues - including authentic reviews and news reports that determine your legacy. Like "A Rockstar At My Hamster" for the 21st century, Popscene leaves no stone unturned to do for music what Wrestling Revolution did for wrestling! The game is free to download, with the option to purchase a "backstage pass" for even more content.
* Please note that the MP3 player function may not be compatible with some devices. If this affects you, consider turning off MP3 music in the options.
PLAYING GUIDE:
Popscene divides the music making process into entertainment (represented by stars) and artistry (represented by hearts). As in real life, popular music is more likely to shoot up the charts and draw fans - but without substance, the success may be short-lived. Each of the game's many artists has the following attributes that influence this process:
- POPULARITY is the artist's ability to draw fans to entertaining content.
- REPUTATION is their ability to draw fans to artistic content.
- PERFORMANCE is their ability to perform entertaining songs live.
- TALENT is their ability to perform artistic songs live.
- PRODUCTION is their ability to compose entertaining music.
- WRITING is their ability to compose artistic music.
- HAPPINESS is the pleasure they currently get from their work.
- ATTITUDE indicates how likely they are to either contribute or cause trouble.
This is a band management sim, and as a band manager it is your job to recruit stars from the music biz. Each week, depending on the size of your team and their collective attitude, new songs may be recorded. Each member of the team contributes their score to a new song, and whoever scores the highest will be credited with making it. Members who are dedicated backstage staff will contribute twice instead of once - inc the chances of a good song being written.
Once songs exist, it is the on-stage performers who must bring it to life. As with writing, each band member on stage contributes their score and the highest determines how well the song was received in each category. This time, it is the "frontman" who gets to contribute twice instead of once - so consider who is at the forefront.
The overall rating for a show is the average of all the songs performed - albeit slightly more generous so that perfection is not required. This is also true of album reviews. A 5-star performance may consist of consistent 4-star contributions. Reviews are where your performances feed back into the stats that produced them, because each attribute will rise or fall to reflect what just happened.
When booking venues, you must consider how much it will cost versus how much you are likely to recoup. Tickets are sold at $5 per song so it depends how long your set is. You will receive a percentage of this revenue, and must then use that to pay your employees and any other expenses. Singles are sold at $1 each whereas albums are sold at $1 per song for a maximum of $10 (cha-ching!). If you have a week of inactivity, you may find that you make a loss because of the expenses of your lifestyle (which reflects your wealth). On the independent scene, you take a larger chunk of lower revenue so you will have to migrate to a major label eventually.
I regret there is more to this game than I could ever explain here, so enjoy figuring some things out for yourself! Or join the debate over at Facebook to have any curious questions answered:
www.facebook.com/MDickieFans
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Dec 8, 2020 I like it but the worst part is it needs money to upgrade I don't even have them... And my character looks trash and I always loose many money in this game! I dunno why is this happening to this game pls fix this or I will put 1 star/or I wish this will have no starsmore -
Dec 13, 2020 Gotta Get Over It, He's An Indy Dev. The game is well thought out and replayability is a given. When you make good games for a living you gotta charge people for SOMETHING to do what you love. If you cant dish out for the game, dont complain if he ever steps away from the inability to "pay the bills."more -
Nov 28, 2020 Used to be a 5 star until you decided to get greedy and make every single one of your games limited of fun for the free to play players. Really unenjoyable, as an mdickie fan for 5 years instead of making new games you decide to profit off previous games.more -
Sep 13, 2020 Pretty much a good sim of the music industry. You can't record when you want, its up to the label, people make up stories about you and sue, and if you fail, no one hears from you again and you fall into obscurity. However it's a game and should be fun, not being able to record when you want kind of takes the shine off.more -
Dec 27, 2020 You've gotta fix the song titles. I literally can't even change the titles of any track or album past 6 because the keyboard covers it and the automatic titles don't go away. If you fix this, I'll give the game 5 stars
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Feb 3, 2021 It was good until you made it that we couldn't dress our characters up and make us pay for it I mean why even. I thought this game was about being creative i even made my own SONGS but I can't even change my characters clothes. And i love mdicky games up until now. Not cool dudemore -
Nov 5, 2020 It was good until you removed the god damn editor making us have to pay for it....I came back to this game with high hopes, I would even be satisfied if it was just the normal game...but removing the editing features forcing us to pay? Are you insane? I'm uninstalling immediately, it's not worth the money. I can only pray that when I get hard time or school days, that it doesn't suffer the same fate, although I'm half EXPECTING it to.more -
Dec 26, 2020 Normally this was one of my best games before they changed it.i remembered that you could choose any music before but now the game select the music for you.i think the developer needs to change this -
Dec 23, 2020 Ok so l downloaded this game before and my biggest problem was , How to deal with the expensises,It was kinda hard to play it coz u get fired if u can't manage ur debt ,And it's hard to get the money 💰😧 , So basically l uninstalled the game , since l missed it l downloaded it again 😐, And now I'm dealing with another problem which is customization , I mean What the heck this tots sucks , It's like they are adding more problems than solutions to this🙅👎🚮more -
Jan 11, 2021 I give this game a 2 star because I have to pay for customising my OWN character!!!...I really liked this game, I grow up playing this game so I got fed up with this game playing with a character I don't like.
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Dec 13, 2020 Gotta Get Over It, He's An Indy Dev. The game is well thought out and replayability is a given. When you make good games for a living you gotta charge people for SOMETHING to do what you love. If you cant dish out for the game, dont complain if he ever steps away from the inability to "pay the bills."more -
Sep 16, 2020 I personally enjoy this game but there needs to be a popscene 2 where it is still 2d but more realism of being a musician like going to talkshow or like adding a map where we can go to world tours, have a British manager also fan signing meetups , photoshoot , interviews after a music show. This style was intepretted from a football game CSD2021,Which is also a very good game but you guys actually adding this feature won't cause any problem between your companies.Because csd2021 is football.more
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Nov 8, 2020 I havent actually played this on phone. Just wanted to say this to all the iidjots here: using editor to max out your own character takes away point of the game. No popstar ever becomes success overnight alone. You need to hire a team: a good producer and a songwriter, perhaps backup dancer, guitarist or smth to boost the band's skills. That's how you get good songs on your albums and performance scores. Then let your character develop skill, perhaps one day you can become a solo artist.more -
Feb 15, 2021 It's a cool game. One of my favourite music games but each time I play it after almost 1 minute it just stop working pls listen and fix it . Thank you -
Feb 14, 2021 Could be more intuitive with the complex layers of the music industry but I still like it
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Dec 8, 2020 I like it but the worst part is it needs money to upgrade I don't even have them... And my character looks trash and I always loose many money in this game! I dunno why is this happening to this game pls fix this or I will put 1 star/or I wish this will have no starsmore -
Nov 28, 2020 Used to be a 5 star until you decided to get greedy and make every single one of your games limited of fun for the free to play players. Really unenjoyable, as an mdickie fan for 5 years instead of making new games you decide to profit off previous games.more -
Sep 13, 2020 Pretty much a good sim of the music industry. You can't record when you want, its up to the label, people make up stories about you and sue, and if you fail, no one hears from you again and you fall into obscurity. However it's a game and should be fun, not being able to record when you want kind of takes the shine off.more -
Dec 27, 2020 You've gotta fix the song titles. I literally can't even change the titles of any track or album past 6 because the keyboard covers it and the automatic titles don't go away. If you fix this, I'll give the game 5 stars -
Jan 18, 2021 Horrible everything about your character is just horrible I don't understand why your son's can have five hearts and five stars I when you play them only have one heart I want that the gameplay is very annoying please fix all the problems because I know you know what the problems aremore
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Dec 26, 2020 Normally this was one of my best games before they changed it.i remembered that you could choose any music before but now the game select the music for you.i think the developer needs to change this -
Jan 11, 2021 I give this game a 2 star because I have to pay for customising my OWN character!!!...I really liked this game, I grow up playing this game so I got fed up with this game playing with a character I don't like.
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Feb 3, 2021 It was good until you made it that we couldn't dress our characters up and make us pay for it I mean why even. I thought this game was about being creative i even made my own SONGS but I can't even change my characters clothes. And i love mdicky games up until now. Not cool dudemore -
Nov 5, 2020 It was good until you removed the god damn editor making us have to pay for it....I came back to this game with high hopes, I would even be satisfied if it was just the normal game...but removing the editing features forcing us to pay? Are you insane? I'm uninstalling immediately, it's not worth the money. I can only pray that when I get hard time or school days, that it doesn't suffer the same fate, although I'm half EXPECTING it to.more -
Dec 23, 2020 Ok so l downloaded this game before and my biggest problem was , How to deal with the expensises,It was kinda hard to play it coz u get fired if u can't manage ur debt ,And it's hard to get the money 💰😧 , So basically l uninstalled the game , since l missed it l downloaded it again 😐, And now I'm dealing with another problem which is customization , I mean What the heck this tots sucks , It's like they are adding more problems than solutions to this🙅👎🚮more -
Sep 5, 2020 I can't customize my own character and honestly if you aren't earning enough money just add new features and updates in games like school days extra lives super city and this game. For an update let pepole control their character and let the mp3 thing be compatible for all devices and can you add kids in this game so they group up all the way and it talks about their age and everything. Just know I really guarantee you listen to me and how about you make another game called life you decidemore -
Dec 4, 2020 Bring back the free editor and choosing attributes. This game is now garbage, I can't even change the name and age of my avatar. Can't believe I came back to this hoping I was going to enjoy this. If I could give this a 0, I would.more
What’s Groovy
It's my favorite game from MDickie so far! I have a suggestion though, maybe add an update where you can create multiple save files and stuff. Although I don't know if that's possible with backstage pass but if it isn't, please add more save slots.
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What’s Subpar
I used to love this game. But now we have to pay to edit or characters like what the frack? Like we have to upgrade to edit our characters I don't see the point in doing that, fix this and ill re download the game and change my rating.
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I like it but the worst part is it needs money to upgrade I don't even have them... And my character looks trash and I always loose many money in this game! I dunno why is this happening to this game pls fix this or I will put 1 star/or I wish this will have no stars
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Gotta Get Over It, He's An Indy Dev. The game is well thought out and replayability is a given. When you make good games for a living you gotta charge people for SOMETHING to do what you love. If you cant dish out for the game, dont complain if he ever steps away from the inability to "pay the bills."
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Used to be a 5 star until you decided to get greedy and make every single one of your games limited of fun for the free to play players. Really unenjoyable, as an mdickie fan for 5 years instead of making new games you decide to profit off previous games.
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Pretty much a good sim of the music industry. You can't record when you want, its up to the label, people make up stories about you and sue, and if you fail, no one hears from you again and you fall into obscurity. However it's a game and should be fun, not being able to record when you want kind of takes the shine off.
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You've gotta fix the song titles. I literally can't even change the titles of any track or album past 6 because the keyboard covers it and the automatic titles don't go away. If you fix this, I'll give the game 5 stars
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I havent actually played this on phone. Just wanted to say this to all the iidjots here: using editor to max out your own character takes away point of the game. No popstar ever becomes success overnight alone. You need to hire a team: a good producer and a songwriter, perhaps backup dancer, guitarist or smth to boost the band's skills. That's how you get good songs on your albums and performance scores. Then let your character develop skill, perhaps one day you can become a solo artist.
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Horrible everything about your character is just horrible I don't understand why your son's can have five hearts and five stars I when you play them only have one heart I want that the gameplay is very annoying please fix all the problems because I know you know what the problems are
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It's a cool game. One of my favourite music games but each time I play it after almost 1 minute it just stop working pls listen and fix it . Thank you
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Could be more intuitive with the complex layers of the music industry but I still like it
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Needs an update at least fixing the game making it more logical. Meaning Why does the expenses get higher for no reason when I donate to charity almost every month. Also adding New characters, gestures, instruments etc.
No reviews available
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Gotta Get Over It, He's An Indy Dev. The game is well thought out and replayability is a given. When you make good games for a living you gotta charge people for SOMETHING to do what you love. If you cant dish out for the game, dont complain if he ever steps away from the inability to "pay the bills."
-
I personally enjoy this game but there needs to be a popscene 2 where it is still 2d but more realism of being a musician like going to talkshow or like adding a map where we can go to world tours, have a British manager also fan signing meetups , photoshoot , interviews after a music show. This style was intepretted from a football game CSD2021,Which is also a very good game but you guys actually adding this feature won't cause any problem between your companies.Because csd2021 is football.
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I havent actually played this on phone. Just wanted to say this to all the iidjots here: using editor to max out your own character takes away point of the game. No popstar ever becomes success overnight alone. You need to hire a team: a good producer and a songwriter, perhaps backup dancer, guitarist or smth to boost the band's skills. That's how you get good songs on your albums and performance scores. Then let your character develop skill, perhaps one day you can become a solo artist.
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It's a cool game. One of my favourite music games but each time I play it after almost 1 minute it just stop working pls listen and fix it . Thank you
-
Could be more intuitive with the complex layers of the music industry but I still like it
-
I like it but the worst part is it needs money to upgrade I don't even have them... And my character looks trash and I always loose many money in this game! I dunno why is this happening to this game pls fix this or I will put 1 star/or I wish this will have no stars
-
Used to be a 5 star until you decided to get greedy and make every single one of your games limited of fun for the free to play players. Really unenjoyable, as an mdickie fan for 5 years instead of making new games you decide to profit off previous games.
-
Pretty much a good sim of the music industry. You can't record when you want, its up to the label, people make up stories about you and sue, and if you fail, no one hears from you again and you fall into obscurity. However it's a game and should be fun, not being able to record when you want kind of takes the shine off.
-
You've gotta fix the song titles. I literally can't even change the titles of any track or album past 6 because the keyboard covers it and the automatic titles don't go away. If you fix this, I'll give the game 5 stars
-
Horrible everything about your character is just horrible I don't understand why your son's can have five hearts and five stars I when you play them only have one heart I want that the gameplay is very annoying please fix all the problems because I know you know what the problems are
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Needs an update at least fixing the game making it more logical. Meaning Why does the expenses get higher for no reason when I donate to charity almost every month. Also adding New characters, gestures, instruments etc.
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It was good until you made it that we couldn't dress our characters up and make us pay for it I mean why even. I thought this game was about being creative i even made my own SONGS but I can't even change my characters clothes. And i love mdicky games up until now. Not cool dude
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It was good until you removed the god damn editor making us have to pay for it....I came back to this game with high hopes, I would even be satisfied if it was just the normal game...but removing the editing features forcing us to pay? Are you insane? I'm uninstalling immediately, it's not worth the money. I can only pray that when I get hard time or school days, that it doesn't suffer the same fate, although I'm half EXPECTING it to.
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Normally this was one of my best games before they changed it.i remembered that you could choose any music before but now the game select the music for you.i think the developer needs to change this
-
Ok so l downloaded this game before and my biggest problem was , How to deal with the expensises,It was kinda hard to play it coz u get fired if u can't manage ur debt ,And it's hard to get the money 💰😧 , So basically l uninstalled the game , since l missed it l downloaded it again 😐, And now I'm dealing with another problem which is customization , I mean What the heck this tots sucks , It's like they are adding more problems than solutions to this🙅👎🚮
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I give this game a 2 star because I have to pay for customising my OWN character!!!...I really liked this game, I grow up playing this game so I got fed up with this game playing with a character I don't like.
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I can't customize my own character and honestly if you aren't earning enough money just add new features and updates in games like school days extra lives super city and this game. For an update let pepole control their character and let the mp3 thing be compatible for all devices and can you add kids in this game so they group up all the way and it talks about their age and everything. Just know I really guarantee you listen to me and how about you make another game called life you decide
-
Bring back the free editor and choosing attributes. This game is now garbage, I can't even change the name and age of my avatar. Can't believe I came back to this hoping I was going to enjoy this. If I could give this a 0, I would.
-
I used to love this game. But now we have to pay to edit or characters like what the frack? Like we have to upgrade to edit our characters I don't see the point in doing that, fix this and ill re download the game and change my rating.
-
Normally this was one of my best games before they changed it.i remembered that you could choose any music before but now the game select the music for you.i think the developer needs to change this
-
I give this game a 2 star because I have to pay for customising my OWN character!!!...I really liked this game, I grow up playing this game so I got fed up with this game playing with a character I don't like.
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It was good until you made it that we couldn't dress our characters up and make us pay for it I mean why even. I thought this game was about being creative i even made my own SONGS but I can't even change my characters clothes. And i love mdicky games up until now. Not cool dude
-
It was good until you removed the god damn editor making us have to pay for it....I came back to this game with high hopes, I would even be satisfied if it was just the normal game...but removing the editing features forcing us to pay? Are you insane? I'm uninstalling immediately, it's not worth the money. I can only pray that when I get hard time or school days, that it doesn't suffer the same fate, although I'm half EXPECTING it to.
-
Ok so l downloaded this game before and my biggest problem was , How to deal with the expensises,It was kinda hard to play it coz u get fired if u can't manage ur debt ,And it's hard to get the money 💰😧 , So basically l uninstalled the game , since l missed it l downloaded it again 😐, And now I'm dealing with another problem which is customization , I mean What the heck this tots sucks , It's like they are adding more problems than solutions to this🙅👎🚮
-
I can't customize my own character and honestly if you aren't earning enough money just add new features and updates in games like school days extra lives super city and this game. For an update let pepole control their character and let the mp3 thing be compatible for all devices and can you add kids in this game so they group up all the way and it talks about their age and everything. Just know I really guarantee you listen to me and how about you make another game called life you decide
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Bring back the free editor and choosing attributes. This game is now garbage, I can't even change the name and age of my avatar. Can't believe I came back to this hoping I was going to enjoy this. If I could give this a 0, I would.
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