Dream Factory

Dream Factory is a movie-making simulator in which you build a studio and production company, organize film productions and manage the people and finances behind them. Its story moves from the era of the Lumière brothers through successive periods to the present and beyond, offering a view of the film industry’s past, present and future through an ironic take on Hollywood conventions.

Build a studio

You develop your studio and production company over time, building them brick by brick and buying new territory to expand. You handle accounting and other complex tasks and objectives, while managing the needs, traits and relationships of your characters. Relationships between staff can be positive or negative; some may lead characters to leave the studio.

Characters are hired through a randomly generated HR market. It can offer highly skilled people with high fame or status, as well as unknown hires you can train and develop. The game plans 21 character types, with at least 20 drawn variations for each. Every character has traits assigned at birth that affect aspects of the game.

Make and promote films

You write screenplays, organize shoots and promote finished movies through marketing campaigns. You deal with marketeers, finance directors and actors, including actors whose contracts specify how they must be treated. You can level up characters and discover new movie genres, then read press reviews after a film’s release to see what worked and what did not.

The work can involve actors affected by trauma or nervous breakdowns, or situations in which actors die during a shoot. You also avoid waves of fans, compete with friends and other studios, and try to attract their actors to your own studio. The game includes awards and exhibitions.

Film crew

Planned character types include audio engineers, movie directors and producers, stage movie directors, janitors, managers, handymen, finance directors, marketeers, costume and makeup artists, extra actors and stunt coordinators.