New Game: "Hollywood Visionary" plus "Tin Star" on Steam Greenlight
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Sent: Friday, May 01, 2015 5:59 PM
Subject: New Game: "Hollywood Visionary" plus "Tin Star" on Steam Greenlight
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Today, Choice of Games is proud to make two
announcements. First, Hollywood Visionary, the latest in our popular “Choice of
Games” line of multiple-choice interactive-fiction games, is now available on
Steam, iOS, Android, and Kindle Fire.
Second, we’re announcing that we've posted "Tin Star"
on Steam Greenlight, where the community votes for games to be released on
Steam.
We're asking all of our fans to go to that page and
click "Yes." It's completely free and it just takes a second.
Hollywood Visionary: Make the movie of your dreams amid
the glamor and romance of 1950s Hollywood!
“Hollywood Visionary” is a 150,000-word interactive
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.
Do you have what it takes to become a Hollywood
visionary?
a.. Conquer the movie biz as a writer, director,
producer, actor, or editor
b.. Banter with Hollywood royalty like Orson Welles
and Greta Garbo
c.. Choose from dozens of genres and modifiers to
make your film unique
d.. Five possible endings to discover
e.. Find love or throw yourself into your art:
extensive but optional romance plots
f.. Win an Oscar, create a cult classic, or languish
in film obscurity
g.. Will you name names for the blacklist, or risk
everything to uphold your artistic ideals?
h.. 150,000 words of content
i.. Flexible gender presentation: independently
control your pronouns, appearance, titles, and romance options
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.
We hope you enjoy playing Hollywood Visionary. We
encourage you to tell your friends about these games, and recommend our games
on StumbleUpon, Facebook, Twitter, and other sites. Don’t forget: our initial
download rate determines our ranking on the App Store. The more times you
download in the first week, the better our games will rank.
We need your support to continue delivering our games
on Steam.
Our goal is to release our entire catalog of
interactive novels on Steam. Based on the extraordinary performance of Choice
of Robots and The Hero of Kendrickstone, both which made it onto Steam’s front
page this year, Valve has allowed us to ship a handful of additional games.
We’ll need to continue to deliver outstanding results to prove that interactive
fiction can be successful on Steam.
Tin Star is an interactive western mystery novel by
Allen Gies (author of Marine Raider, Apex Patrol, and Shadow Horror). It’s over
1.3 million words long, making it the biggest interactive novel ever made. A
single playthrough from beginning to epilogue can run over 80,000 words.
We’ve published a number of popular games on Steam
under our “Choice of Games” label, but this is the first time we’re trying to
publish a game from our Hosted Games label on Steam. Tin Star was the obvious
first choice, because you rated it the best Hosted Game of 2014.
We’re asking all of our fans to first follow us on
Steam and then vote for Tin Star on Steam Greenlight. Even if you don’t use
Steam that much, every click helps. The more "Yes" votes we get on Greenlight,
the faster we'll be able to release Tin Star on Steam. It will also be a big
help if you sign up to follow us, because the more followers we get, the better
visibility we get on Steam’s curator list. (Our goal is to hit 3,000 followers
for our Steam curation page; we’re about 45% the way there as I write this!)
When you follow us, you’ll see our games and our
recommended games right on your Steam home page. It’s free, and it’s a big help
to us, so follow us today!
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