Software Star

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Software Star

Developer(s)	Kevin Toms
Release date(s)	1985
Genre(s)
Mode(s)
Platform(s)	C64,ZX Spectrum
Media	Cassette
Input	Keyboard

Software Star is a 1985 game released by Kevin Toms for the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.

1 Gameplay
- 1.1 Objective
2 Trivia
3 See also

[edit] Gameplay

Esentially a textbased management game, which your task is to manage a software house write new games, manage your publicity and make £10,000 profit. Meanwhile you must try and achieve the status of "Software Star" for 10 successive months.

Having a large portfolio of games, has it advantages by pushing your monthly sales up however money must be spent on aging titles promoting them. Each game has its own quality rating the more development time the better the quality. Managing the productivity of your staff is also key to the game, giving you a snapshot of the last six months you could decide to either discipline offer incentives or take no action. Your four sales regions also needed attending two chosing in an order of 1-4 where you would concentrate you efforts depending on the sales last month graph. Public relations also needs tweaking in this game, do you choose Honesty or Hype, each descion would have an effect on your company image. Finally you have to evaluate your potential market depending on the time of year and decide how many advertising pages you bought. Markets were larger around Christmas and New year. It is now time to sit back and look at the sales figures as your game enters the Top 20, you are given a Sales break even figure and each game is then climbs up the chart (If it sells enough), to the number 1 spot.

At the end of the month you view your monthly statement to check your progress and Stardom rating ranging from Nobody to Software Star. At the year end the directors will check your progress and either fire you raise the bar or give you another chance.