Dev Diary 15/2024: Making Great Strides in Scheduling

This week, we continued our major overhaul of the network scheduling for our next update and achieved significant progress. 🚀

Next Time On Endless Studio…

We've been diligently working on the scheduling revamp to ensure the next release is ready as soon as possible. Since our last Dev Diary, we have:

• Developed a new method to store all data for the updated scheduling processes,
• Implemented an archiving system for old scheduling data to prevent slowdowns in games with extensive progress,
• Established a new broadcast/cable scheduling logic that operates weekly to optimally fill each time slot,
• Refined the streaming scheduling logic to support both weekly single-episode releases and full-season drops,
• Introduced a new setting for streaming networks to choose between airing an episode weekly or releasing a full season at once,
• Enhanced the initial scheduling framework for starting new games.

Next, we'll focus on refining the viewership calculations and the renewal/cancellation logic to align with the new scheduling formats.

Feature Voting Status Report

Results for Feature Voting 🗳️ Season #3, Week #19 are in, revealing the following Top 5 features:

• Planned Show Ending: 1829 votes
• Critics & Awards: 1569 votes
• Feature Movies: 578 votes
• Producing Whole Seasons: 432 votes
• More Talent Variety: 248 votes

If you haven't already, consider subscribing or upgrading to the Level 2 Supporter Subscription to ensure your voice is heard! Voting will conclude when the Managing Your Own Network feature set is completely released, at which point we'll announce a winner and start a new voting season.

That's all folks! 🐷 Enjoy your weekend and happy studio building! Stay tuned for more updates from Endless Studio. 📺