If you enjoy playing School Idol Festival and Song of Hero: Music RPG, you will surely like TourStar as the newest addition in iTunes developed by ground(ctrl). In this game you will enjoy starting your music career with a real life music simulation game wherein you will produce an album, schedule tours as well as building a fan base. Your decision making will affect the gameplay as this is based on real life music stars such as asking yourself if you are going to record a full album or a carrier hit single? Are you going to sign a contract with a big label company/studio or you will keep it small and independent? Are you going to hire a manager or you will focus on promoting all by yourself. Everything will be based on your decision and to help you improve your gameplay we decided to share to you those we’ve learned from other players alike who made a good walkthrough tips in playing Tour Star for iOS.
1. Don’t pick the same options when recording albums. Just like what we’ve mentioned, you will experience recording albums and when it comes to your gameplay you should not pick the same options over multiple times. In creating albums, freshness comes a great play you need to consider. And if you choose the same genres as well as lengths over and over again, that album will lose its appeal and you are not able to make lots of money from that release. Instead, always diverse everything in creating new album to keep your fans satisfied and convert more money from it.
2. Start working with small gigs. Just like with real life challenge in making a big name in music industry, everyone usually starts working in small things. In TourStar, you will start on a very basic wherein you won’t have any brand options unlocked as you need to work on it as you make progress. In the beginning you only have access to the level 1-2 tour offers while just keep getting gigs and you are able to earn money. You can start with small ones and then work your way up to stardom until you reach local mall exposure. There you are able to earn good amount cash as well as fame that will let you reaching level 2.
3. Start with the cheapest members of the band. As you make progress you are able to unlock band feature in game wherein you can hire new band members. The trick here is to start with cheapest members as you will see they have three stats corresponds with band members such as signing fee, initial cost and weekly salary. To begin playing with a band, you should hire the very first members that the game offers. They are cheap yet they can bring +5% cash with 100-250$ talent fee. Though they don’t have fame bonus but as you can see, in the early phase of the game, fame is not really a big issue as you need to work for it step by step. But first you need to keep making money that will let you purchase more upgrades.
4. Take advantage with warm up option at tours. You might find that your mileage may vary from time to time but the warm up option you are able to use at tours will help you a lot. As you go off on a tour, the game will give you few options before proceeding to the actual concert. Every option has their own advantage can bring to you such as Chill Out that will gives you different ways to increase your fame and energy while warm up and tune gear are two mini games available in game that will let you acquire bonus to the show and lastly the nothing option which is literally nothing. If you decided to go for two mini game options, you’ll have to spend some energy. For warm up, you need to tap and hold until the meter reaches the line located on the right side and upon letting it go you will see that the meter will decrease. You can tap again when it reaches the left line as when you are closer to the lines, the higher your fame multiplier will be. Based on some players, warm up feature is much easier to do compare to other feature wherein you will get instantly a 100 fame bonus.
5. Gain passive bonuses through effects. Effects comes into different light shows and fog machines that will help you boost your show performance. This can convert more fame and cash bonuses from around 20% and they are not very expensive considering the bonus this can bring to your performance. This is also a good investment to consider since you need only to pay for the one-time cost then you are able to use this for every performance you like.
6. Album launch is still the best in making income. There are lots of things to do like gig, concert performance etc but if you are looking for a good sources of income, you must consider releasing an albums. This can bring as high as $20,000 to your game that you can use for more advantage. That is only for starting albums launch since you are able to make a record for big label company that can give you even more money just like in real life stardom.
7. Work with right staff with your album. We already mentioned the term album launching as a good source of income, but actually that is not as easy as we obviously think. Yes album is our gold mine in this game but you should manage it very careful as you need to hire the right people for the job. For instance, you already done and get to the last step of recording an album, that is the time you need to choose a producer. This decision making can make a big effect to the overall out of your album. Think about every producer has their own description you can consider as you will find their advantage in album producing. Take time to read them as this will your biggest opportunity to make lots of money. For instance, you will see Carl Shalimar as a producer while in his description you will see that he is a former R&B singer, definitely RnB based albums will work better on him.