Method: Actor Life Story

Sam Rivera arrives in Sunset City with $300 and one headshot. Washed-up legend Marlowe Kane sees something in Sam, agent Dana Cho takes a chance, and nepo-baby star Chase Sterling wants every role Sam goes for.

Plan your weeks: drama class, improv, stunt training, voice lessons, café shifts to pay the rent, industry parties and rest. Then audition and perform. In every scene the director calls for an emotional turn, like Guilty to Defiant, and you play it on the Emotion Wheel: pick the emotion, press Action on the pause, then hold and let go in the green for the right intensity.

What's in it

• An Emotion Wheel acting game with 8 emotions and 3-star takes
• A week planner where rent, energy and skills pull against each other
• 6 chapters: extra, commercials, TV guest roles, indie lead, blockbuster, award season
• 6 genres and 4 skills: Drama, Comedy, Action and Voice
• Build your actor in the character creator
• Story choices about typecasting, tabloids and burnout
• Move up from a small apartment to a condo and a penthouse
• 5 endings and new starting backgrounds: Theater Kid, Influencer and Ex-Child Star
• English, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Plays offline, no account.

Controls (PC)

• Mouse: click to plan the week, pick an emotion on the wheel, hold ACTION and let go in the green.
• Space: works like holding ACTION in a scene.
• Esc: back.

The itch.io version

• No ads. No in-app purchases. The full game, once.
• Agent Call (one extra audition, once a week) is a free button. Second Take (a retake that costs no energy) is free once per scene.
• A 540x960 portrait window that can be resized.

Credits

Pixel art: LimeZu Modern Interiors (TV and Film Studio, homes, gym) and Character Generator (LimeZu licence). Fonts: DM Serif Display, Inter, Pixelify Sans (SIL OFL 1.1). Made with Godot (MIT). Crash reports by Sentry (MIT).