SimCinemaReflux

You're a brand new Hollywood producer with your own studio and something to prove. You pitch the movies, hire the talent, get them made, and send them into theaters.

What happens next isn't up to you. An audience, the critics, and a focus group decide whether you made a hit. They're sure of themselves, and they're usually wrong. You just have to swallow it.

Inspired by classic text-based simulation games, Sim Cinema Reflux lets you take a movie from pitch to final result:

• Build the pitch. Pick a genre, write a synopsis, set a scope and a rating, cast it. Then hand it to a distributor, who decides what it's worth and gives you a budget you'll resent for the rest of the shoot.
• Shoot it one week at a time. Something always comes up. A director who found a better third act that costs more. A lead who said something. A schedule that slipped. You make the call, and the trades decide what it meant.
• Sell it before anyone's seen it. Buy a TV campaign, rent some influencers, stage a stunt. Or screen the unfinished cut and let a room of strangers tell you what you made. Sometimes they love it. Sometimes they're wrong too.
• Open in theaters and watch the number go up. Opening weekend, the hold, the long fade. Crack the all-time top 10, or become the story other producers tell to feel better about their own.
• It all runs on machine learning trained on real box office data. The crowd, the critics, the box office: every verdict comes from the model. It's rigorous and data-driven, and it'll be wrong about your movie with a clear conscience.
• It runs on your device. No accounts, no servers, no ads, nothing collected about you. One purchase lifts the three-movie limit when you want more.