AnimeBiz Magnate MVP Released

Hello everyone, and welcome to the Magnate Games community!

After a lot of development and planning, I'm incredibly excited to announce that the first public version of Anime Biz Magnate (v0.5.0) is now available to play!

This is the Minimum Viable Product (MVP), which means it contains a complete, core gameplay loop. You can start a studio, license manga from a market, hire staff, produce an anime season, and see it reviewed by critics and fans.

The Goal: Your Feedback

The main reason for releasing the game at this stage is to get it into your hands. The goal is to gather as much feedback as possible to guide the future of development. I have a clear roadmap of features I want to add (like AI competitors, R&D, and new project types), but that roadmap will be shaped by you. What do you enjoy? What's confusing? What do you want to see next? Your voice is critical to making this the best anime studio tycoon game it can be.

Please share your thoughts, suggestions, and bug reports in the comments section below.

The Release Plan

For now, the plan is to release all future updates and hotfixes for the web version right here on itch.io. This is the fastest way for me to get new builds out to you. For major version jumps (v0.6, v0.7, etc., all the way to v1.0), I will also provide an updated standalone Windows .exe for download.

Thank you for checking out the game. I can't wait to hear what you think.

Full Roadmap to 1.0 available at - https://discord.gg/3RbN4v3X

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