[WIP] Popular Culture

[Sun Ce of Wu]

INTRODUCTION
The purpose of this series of mods is that to represent the strong influence that modern popular culture has worldwide.
It will be made of several mods centered on a specific medium (Movies, Comics, Games, Television), with the addition of new buildings, wonders and possibily Great Works related to it, as well as changes to existing elements fit within the scope of the mod. Since the AI can't handle new types of Great Works, the Great Works added by these mods will simply be "Rethemed" Great Works of Writing, Art or Music.



POPULAR CULTURE - MOVIES
The first component to be release will be about Movies, added in game as Great Works of Writing, with a still of the movie and a piece of its soundtrack.
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NEW BUILDINGS
Movie Studio

Spoiler :

Unlocks at Radio
Cost: 200 production
Maintenance: 1 gold
Effects:
+3 GPP towards a Great Movie Director
2 slots for Movie Director Specialists (+1 Gold, +2 Culture, +3 GPP)

Cinema

Spoiler :

Unlocks at Radio
Cost: 500 production
Effects:
+1 Culture
+1 Gold for every 10 citizens
2 slots for Great Works of Writing

Hollywood

Spoiler :

Unlocks at Telecommunications
Cost: 1060 production
Effects:
+10 Gold
1 Free Great Movie Director
3 slots for Great Works of Writing
Theming Bonus: +6 Tourism if filled with works from own civilization

NEW UNITS
Great Movie Director
Same stats as Great Writers, creates a Great Work of Writing representing his/her most famous Movie.
[Complete List coming soon]

INTERACTION WITH OTHER MODS
Community Patch

Spoiler :

Great Works in Cinemas and Hollywood yield 2 Gold instead of 2 Culture
Great Movie Directors sorted by age

TO DO LIST BEFORE RELEASE

• Complete the list of Directors and Movies
• Balance out the Buildings
• Compatibility with other mods (remove other versions of Cinemas and Hollywood)

FUTURE ADDITIONS (MAYBE)

• Support for JFD's Cultural Diversity (Directors sorted by Cultural Groups or a union of them)

Suggestions are welcome.​

 

[GutFeeling]

I like the germ of this idea, and I'd love to see your code. I've had similar ideas of adding Great Directors, and the nerd in me would also like seeing Great Game Designers. Unsure about the need for there to be Great Comic Artists. In the mod I'm making of 20th Century Great Works, I stuck R. Crumb in as a Great Artist and will probably stick Alan Moore in as a Great Writer. Most comic book people I'd consider worth adding to the game I would add as Great Writers.

I don't know what your list of Great Directors and their associated Great Works looks like, but here's a short list I made off the top of my head of notable ones:

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Yasujiro Ozu - Tokyo Story
David Lynch - Eraserhead
Sam Raimi - The Evil Dead
Akira Kurosawa - Seven Samurai
Joseph Cornell - Rose Hobart
Jan Svankmajer - Alice
David "The Rock" Nelson - Demon Monster from Outer Space (outsider art)
Charlie Chaplin - Modern Times
Rainer Werner Fassbinder - Ali: Fear Eats The Soul
Nobuhiko Obayashi - Hausu
Quentin Tarantino - Pulp Fiction
Ridley Scott - Alien
George Miller - The Road Warrior
John Waters - Pink Flamingos
Terry Gilliam - Brazil
Werner Herzog - Aguirre, the Wrath of God

Here's a further idea: What if Great Works of Gaming added +2 science instead of tourism or culture? Or even in addition to tourism and culture, since they're so late in the game? I would also make the Game Designer's Guild available starting at Computers. EDIT: Duh, I didn't notice that part. I thought you were going to unlock all of these at Globalization, which is way too late in the game.

 

[otaman1]

Some of my ideas:

Great Film Makers:
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Franco Zeffirelli - Romeo and Juliet
George A. Romero - Night of the Living Dead
James Cameron - Titanic or Avatar
John Huston - Moby Dick
Robert Kirkman - The Walking Dead
Sergio Leone - A Fistful of Dollars
Steven Spielberg - Jaws, Indiana Jones or Jurassic Park
Sylvester Stallone - The Expendables
Tom Hooper - Les Misérables

Great Game Designers:
Bethesda Game Studios - The Elder Scrolls
EA DICE - Battlefield
Firaxis Games - Civilization
Infinity Ward or Treyarch - Call of Duty (don't hate)
Naughty Dog - Jak & Daxter or The Last of Us
Nintendo - Mario
Paradox Development Studio - Europa Universalis
Riot Games - League of Legends
The Creative Assembly - Total War

Wonders:
Firaxis
Gamescom
Google
IGN
Machinima

 

[Sun Ce of Wu]

Thanks for your suggestions. I don't know if it's possible to change the yield of the great works, I should dive more into the code, and for now I don't have enought time, so I prefer to complete the basic version of it, and then look to refine it. I also like your suggestions, so I'll look up to add some of them in the list. For now, I'll post in the first post the original list of 30 works for type I've written down. For now only Comics are implemented.

 

[Professor137]

I have just been working on an idea like this. I've been trying to find a modern great artist skin (from G&K/Vanilla) but haven't found one yet. If you would like to work on this together it would be cool!
Here's what some of it looks like:

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INSERT INTO GreatWorks (Type, Description, GreatWorkClassType, Image, Audio) VALUES
('GREAT_WORK_STAR_WARS', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_STAR_WARS', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'starwars.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_BEETLEJUICE', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_BEETLEJUICE', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'beetlejuice.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_MAGNOLIA', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_MAGNOLIA', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'magnolia.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_THE_ELEPHANT_MAN', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_THE_ELEPHANT_MAN', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'elephant.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_THE_LORD_OF_THE_RINGS_TRILOGY', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_THE_LORD_OF_THE_RINGS_TRILOGY', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'lordofrings.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_GLADIATOR', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_GLADIATOR', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'gladiator.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_THE_GODFATHER', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_THE_GODFATHER', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'godfather.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_THE_TERMINATOR', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_THE_TERMINATOR', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'terminator.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_AMERICAN_SNIPER', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_AMERICAN_SNIPER', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'sniper.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_THE_SHINING', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_THE_SHINING', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'shining.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_MANHATTAN', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_MANHATTAN', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'manhattan.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_MEMENTO', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_MEMENTO', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'memento.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_THE_SOCIAL_NETWORK', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_THE_SOCIAL_NETWORK', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'social.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_PSYCHO', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_PSYCHO', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'psycho.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_RESERVOIR_DOGS', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_RESERVOIR_DOGS', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'reservoir.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_JURASSIC_PARK', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_JURASSIC_PARK', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'jurassic.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK'),
('GREAT_WORK_HUGO', 'TXT_KEY_GREAT_WORK_HUGO', 'GREAT_WORK_ART', 'hugo.dds', 'AS2D_GREAT_ARTIST_ARTWORK');

This is what I plan the Great Director/Film Maker to be like:

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<Row Tag="TXT_KEY_UNIT_GREAT_DIRECTOR_STRATEGY">
<Text>Great Directors are the most efficient way of spreading your [ICON_CULTURE] culture worldwide. A Great Director can be used to create a film which provides a large sum of [ICON_GOLD] gold for 5 turns while it also gives other civilizations a small sum of [ICON_TOURISM] tourism equal to 1/4 of your [ICON_CULTURE] culture per turn. The film can be stored in a box office and gives you +4 [ICON_TOURISM] tourism.</Text>
</Row>

 

[ldvhl]

Definitely need more American comics in that list, especially the as-yet-unlisted Marvel.

 

[Sun Ce of Wu]

Definitely need more American comics in that list, especially the as-yet-unlisted Marvel.

You are definitely right, but I stopped developement of this mod for a long time. For now I want to release Movies as a single component in the near future. They will be Great Works of Writing, there will be a new building with a nice effect, and obviously Hollywood, but a bit reworked

 

[ldvhl]

Looking forward to it!

 

[dilophosaur]

CD Projekt RED and The Witcher game series:
- The Witcher
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of kings
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Warner Bros. as a wonder/national wonder maybe?

 

[ldvhl]

Eh, I'm not sure all three Witcher games qualify to be Great Works.

 

[dilophosaur]

The third one qualifies to be it, the first one IMHO also, but the second - not really.

 

[TheLohoped]

I think that if you are going into Great Video Games territory, then it would make more sense to have Great Game Designers as people instead of developer studios. If you have directors for movies instead of studios, video games should follow the same route. It would make more sense for Sid Meier to create the Civilization rather than Firaxis, which didn't even exist at that point in time.