Monthly Update: New Employees & Major Bug Fixing!

First of all, thank you for your patience 💜 Here we are with the update we teased last week… And this one is a pretty big step forward for Movierooms!

We’ve officially started replacing and upgrading the employee characters!

This is the first phase of a much larger visual and animation improvement pass. You’ll already notice better-looking employees, improved animations, new portraits and a much cleaner style overall. And this is only the beginning! 😉

🛠️ Fixes & Improvements

✅ Fixed an issue where movies could no longer be rented in Sandbox mode after the previous update (“Rent” button stayed disabled).

✅ The game now correctly pauses when entering Build Mode.

✅ Fixed several projector and shared-wall related issues.

✅ Improved equipment and rooms loading from save files.

✅ Fixed Settings Menu issues.

✅ Fixed tutorial initialization/order problems.

✅ Fixed incorrect 1930 level title.

✅ Added Save Loader tools and continued Save System improvements.

✅ Improved employee categories and interactions.

✅ Added and improved sitting employees animation.

✅ Character textures and lighting improved.

✅ Removed unsupported small resolutions.

👷 New Employee System (Work in Progress)

The first batch of the new employees is now being implemented!

✨ New employee models; ✨ New animations; ✨ New 2D portraits/photos; ✨ Improved visual readability; ✨ More personality and variety.

This is part of a much bigger rework that will continue over the next updates.

🔧 Next Steps

• Fixing duplicated employees in Sandbox mode, they’ll soon be replaced with new unique characters.

• Game interface: more improvements on the way.

• Continuing to resolve Save System related bugs, we’re fully focused on stabilizing it!

• Implementation of new customer models with accurate historical clothing, alongside more varied modern/sandbox visitors.

• More bug fixing and new features are coming soon… And we’ll tease them on our social channels 😉 Stay tuned!

Thank you again for all your reports, patience, screenshots and encouragement. Every update helps us push Movierooms closer to the experience we dream of creating with you.

See you soon! Mad Pumpkins Team 🎃🎃🎃