Hollywood Visionary

i was a gay commie 11/10 would hire hitchcock for an erotic sci-fi movie again

This is a great game and I played many times. One playthrough, I went over-budget, had quite a few thing go wrong, revealed myself to be a former communist, got blacklisted, got arrested and I still got the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award. Once again, great game, I recommend it to anyone who likes text based games.

Engrossing, very well-written interactive story with many, many choices throughout which customize your journey from starting up a film studio to screening and reading a review of your first independent film. You have control over almost all of the details involved, and keep track of stats to see what your film is becoming and how you're treating your crew as well as yourself. It's like reading a really good book being written while you get to control its writer. Highly recommended! Edit, a long time later: there are no crazy story branches that take it to a completely different section, it's more a case of there being enough choices along the linear path to make it really interesting, even worth multiple play-throughs. I find myself coming back to this one.

Really fun! Captures Hollywood in the 1950's very well.

Told my boss he's an a**hat, wrote/directed an original horror movie, told the commy crusader to piss off, and nearly died from an heart attack. 10/10 would tell the government to suck it again.

Very enjoyable, especially if you're a movie aficionado. Competent writing. Relatively short, but with a very high replay value due to the multiple choices that change the outcomes of events.

This game is fantastic! I do love the classic Hollywood setting, and perhaps that's a bias of mine, but it's executed really well. Creating a script outline and establishing my character intuitively through the early interactions really felt like I had a hand in establishing some of the tone. I resisted the urge to restart after a couple of choices I regretted making, but decided to push forward. I'm glad I did. Living with these choices is what really seemed to bring the drama to life. I was very emotionally invested by the end. The writing is great. It situates you fully in the world and captures your imagination and there's not a lot of fat on the prose, which keeps the momentum up. Definite recommend for those who love a classic Hollywood setting. Good suspense/thriller elements.

Enjoyable game, from an interesting time period. Lots of neat little tidbits for those who love Hollywood's Golden Age. Could have done with a bit more of an epilogue to round the story out, but altogether, very good.

This is a banger narrative choice game set in the Red Scare of Hollywood. If your computer exists, it can probably run this game. I've beaten it a few times, it's a very quick play. Still love it. Full endorse if you like the genre, 10/10. Fish is the man.

A great experience, worthy of multiple playthroughs. While the writing may not have been entirely immersive for the time period, I appreciated the dive into real world historical politics, with regards to queerness and censorship in the film industry.