Hollywood Visionary -- Make the movie of your dreams in 1950s Hollywood!

SAN FRANCISCO--May 1st, 2015: Choice of Games announced today that "Hollywood Visionary," the latest in their popular line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available on Steam, iOS, and Android.

Make the movie of your dreams amid the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood!

"Hollywood Visionary" is a 150,000-word interactive fantasy novel by Aaron A. Reed, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based--without graphics or sound effects--and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination.

As head of your own movie studio, you call the shots: hire Hitchcock, seduce Garbo, build your studio into an Oscar-winning powerhouse or star in a B-movie train wreck. Control everything about your production, from genre to casting to building up buzz.

For example, when Congressman Jonathan Creed proposes drastic changes to your script, "to make this more the kind of picture that wholesome American audiences would like to see," what will you say?

A) "We'll be happy to make these changes." (Truth)
B) "We'll be happy to make these changes." (Lie)
C) "We'll consider your revisions, but I can't promise anything."
D) "This is censorship, but I'll consider some of these changes, if I must."
E) "I'm not changing a word."

Do you have what it takes to become a Hollywood visionary?

• Conquer the movie biz as a writer, director, producer, actor, or editor
• Banter with Hollywood royalty like Orson Welles and Greta Garbo
• Choose from dozens of genres and modifiers to make your film unique
• Five possible endings to discover
• Find love or throw yourself into your art: extensive but optional romance plots
• Win an Oscar, create a cult classic, or languish in film obscurity
• Will you name names for the blacklist, or risk everything to uphold your artistic ideals?
• 150,000 words of content
• Flexible gender presentation: independently control your pronouns, appearance, titles, and romance options

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About the Author

Aaron A. Reed is an award-winning author of interactive narratives. His games have been featured at Slamdance, IndieCade, IndieCade East, the Independent Games Festival at GDC, and in exhibitions of "electronic literature" around the world. His textbook "Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7" is the leading reference on the popular language for digital storytelling. His interactive novel "Blue Lacuna" was named one of the Top 10 Interactive Fictions of all time in a recent poll. Aaron lives in Santa Cruz, California.

"Before I got into making games I was a college film major, so I had a lot of that history in the back of my head already", said Aaron A. Reed, author of "Hollywood Visionary." "Movies were starting to change at that point, old systems breaking down in the face of new ideas, and people were putting everything on the line to get those ideas on screens. I see a lot of parallels between the rise of the Hollywood independents and the rise of indie gaming."

About Choice of Games

Choice of Games was founded by Dan Fabulich and Adam Strong-Morse in 2009. They produce text-based interactive novels for mobile platforms and the web, combining the delicious freedom of the 1980s' choose-a-path gamebooks with the depth and scope of a bestselling novel. Choice of Games adventures have been awarded First Place in IntroComp 2011 (Choice of Zombies), "Best Roleplaying Game of the Year" by JayIsGames (Choice of the Dragon), and Honorable Mention in the IGF Nuovo Awards (Choice of Broadsides).

In addition to developing their own games in-house, Choice of Games has created an easy-to-use programming language for writing text-based games, ChoiceScript, and publishes games written by other designers.

Contact:

Dan Fabulich
Choice of Games LLC
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