Music Maven 3
 

I've posted before about an online game I developed, but I thought I'd pimp it again since a new version is starting this weekend - Music Maven 3. The game is basically an online Music Industry simulation game. Music Maven 2 was very successful and was around for about 2 years, with thousands of bands playing. It has taken me 18 months to complete MM3 so I'm very excited about finally being able to launch the game. (It took so long not because of the huge enhancements - but mostly because I took several hiatuses along the way.) As always, I strive to make the game as realistic as possible - for example, it contains hundreds of real music clubs around the world in which your band can play.

Music Maven 3

For those that enjoyed version 2, here's a partial list of the new features for MM3:




The first sim is Sunday night, so I encourage you to sign up now to not miss any sims.

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I know I had quite a lot of fun playing and anyone who didn't give it a go and likes text based web games check it out.

to lighthousekeeper:
I had one problem that probably caused me to stop playing and was wondering if you had addressed that. After a couple of months of playing, you had maxed out your musician abilities through practicing (the musical ones). However, the other attributes could only be changed in unbalanced fashion by resting (ie the max you could get from one ability would be 3 so that attribute on all your musicians would always be low while another you could raise 7 or 10 points in a day and so it was better to raise those). So, once your band became more "mature" in the game, the easiest way to advance your band was to go audition a new set of members because the points would be redistributed and it's much easier to raise the musical abilities because you practiced every day. So, basically, the best way to get the best band members was to completely replace all of your members and that reduced the "stickiness" of the game for me.

SI

i'm joining. i would have preferred the option when making my band to have a guitarest/vocalist as the same guy, however.

I'm not sure how long ago you stopped playing but at one point in MM2 I added many types of resting activities that allowed the musicians to raise a variety of attributes. But, I will definitely take a look at the balancing of resting activities to improve and addresss unbalance issues to try to make it more balanced (either have less improvement each month, or introduce more factors to reduce certain attributes).

The Truth is in (emo).

It'd be cool if we had like a buddies system, like add group to a certain list to keep tabs on people we know.

In a way there is a buddies system in the form of Record Labels. Groups of friends typically create and join the same record label. (You won't be able to create a record label though until you've played the game for several days because you need at least at 20 rating in Popularity to create a record label.)

Ok. See you have Bogarts (Cincy,OH) in the game, with a good rating to boot! Nice.

Fascist Eagle, the hard rockers from Houston are back (and because we can, we've got the 80's sax player in the rock mix)

SI

The Outsiders are in.

Charlie Swager needs to get that plastic surgery (18 for looks, which is a little high for you anyways.)

and on top of being ugly, I'm a girl, too. :(

I had forgetten all about this game but am very glad to see it back.

I've played before a couple of times and found it a lot of fun :D

Same here. Looking forward to the changes and the games rebirth.

Kleft, the West Coast Rappers from Iowa City are ready to rip some shit up.:D

The Pasty White Thighs are ready to rock out!

This seems pretty cool, didn't check this out the first time round.

Dude you messed up. Your The Pasty White Thights.

LOL

Acckkk! Damn it all!

Check before you hit submit on these things! ;)

Lets see if I can get it right a second time.

how do you change the band photo? I've got the individual members, but can't figure out how to edit the band pic.

Watery Hands are ready to rock the fucking house.

Under Account Info / My Account

I'm in. 'The New Age' an Indie Rock outfit (of the Joy Division, Chamelons, post-punk ilk). From Manchester, UK of course. :)

Dola

A question. Do you need to buy instruments first before doing anything else? Or are they pretty much meaningless showing off? ;)

"Downriver" is back again to dominate the hard rock scene

Meaningless showoff

Do you think you will ever make a solo/career game like this?

Is there any way to try to tour together with another artist/artists? Or is the only way you can really do that by just trying to tour the same areas at the same time?

The Blind Fish (Indie) are in

I started off making a solo game, but never finished - now the technology is outdated (VB6). link

I would need to start from scratch and I've been telling myself that after I get MM3 up and running and stable that I'd go back to that.

Good luck. I think it would be a great entry into the genre and you would have at least one paying customer. :)

My girls had better crank out some new tunes this month.

The Clap(Hard Rock) are ready to kick some ass

The Jive Turkeys (Comedy) are in, straight outta NOLA (New Orleans).

Canadian Myth is back and ready to climb the charts.

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The Vampires of Doom, a goth rock band out of Dresden, Germnay have just been created.

Those alternative rockers Short One Crouton, have joined the music industry!

Alabaster Bible Church bitches

Oh and PS

Alabaster Bible Church will be the hardcore band that kills people nightly.

Expect arrests, deaths, chaos, excess and assorted other nonsense.

And this will be a dynasty no doubt

Say hello to Selftitled.

My band is Somatic (Heavy Metal)

Vaporizer (Stoner Rock)

From Birmingham, AL the punk stylings of The Klein Bottles..

I came REAL CLOSE to putting them in Math Rock..
:)

S.T.A.T. (West Coast Rap)

I made a hardcore band called Anthem from the dump other wise know as west filthadelphia :)

[Puts on his Death Before Dishonor/Boston Hardcore hoodie]

Let's rumble.

fixed it for you

midnight EST. so about 90 minutes.

any idea what time the sim is?

the website says EST. that's all i know. check the 'stats' button in the lower left hand side when logged in.

I could be wrong, but I thought it was midnight CT not ET.

SI