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Make movies, even if someone has to die. Get a deep dive into Hollywood Animal in this latest trailer for the upcoming economic strategy game set up in the 20th century. Learn how your competitors will try to thwart you, under-handed tactics you can use, and much more.
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00:00Hollywood Animal. A box of spiders disguised as a tycoon game.
00:07It's easy to think Hollywood Animal is a pretty traditional management game.
00:12Sure, there's the splendors and miseries of old Hollywood,
00:16maybe a chance to tempt the leading man with the delicate taste of human flesh.
00:21So the game stands out a little from the crowd, yes,
00:24but otherwise it seems like what you'd expect from the genre.
00:27You place your buildings, hire employees, research upgrades, and climb your way to the top.
00:32Pretty standard, right?
00:34But here's where Hollywood Animal really stands out.
00:37And not just because of its maniacal attention to detail or its endless variation.
00:43The key thing is, the competition is playing the same game as you.
00:49In tycoon games, we're used to competitors being abstractions in the background.
00:54But not in Hollywood Animal.
00:56Every studio is an independent player in this cruel industry.
01:01You'll be facing off against a corporate monster,
01:04an assembly line of cheap products with mass appeal,
01:07and even some upstart intellectuals naive enough to believe they're making art.
01:12Everyone has their own ideas about what makes good cinema and successful business.
01:17But they all agree on one thing.
01:20There's not enough pie to go around.
01:23Your competitors are fighting over the same talent as you,
01:26the same viewers, the same advertising space,
01:30and the same covers of the major magazines.
01:33You're about to give a brilliant director his very own driver plus a maid
01:38when your rivals offer him a villa on the coast.
01:41You planned a minor attack on an actor to disrupt someone's film schedule and clear up the calendar.
01:47But your rivals respond with contract killings.
01:51You invested in cutting-edge technology and colossal sets to shoot your very own Gone With the Wind.
01:58But then someone calls in a favor and the police raid your studio.
02:02Time to call your friends from the mafia and hide the heroin.
02:05What? Does the moral compass mind you working with the mafia?
02:10What about Hitler or the Ku Klux Klan?
02:13No problem. There's plenty of less squeamish businessmen than you in Hollywood.
02:19Or maybe you'd have your new star dramatically rescue a drowning tourist
02:26who you yourself threw in the water. The press will love it.
02:31No? Too risky?
02:33The competition won't think twice about drowning anyone, the tourists and you along with them.
02:39The fight doesn't let up when you sit down at the negotiating table.
02:43In Hollywood Animal, the studios are united under the alliance, but don't let the name fool you.
02:49They're not your allies.
02:51Want to hurt a major studio? Use your influence. Push through a rule that limits how much they can pay their actors.
02:57Own a lot of movie theaters? Push up those ticket prices.
03:01Hate pirates? Ban movies about pirates.
03:04You can always mold the cruel world to suit your own ends, but take your eye off the prize
03:09by suiting someone else's ends instead.
03:12Or just tell everyone they can go to hell.
03:16Don't join any alliances. Don't accept anyone's rules.
03:19Reject all standards of decency.
03:22Choose the path of the trashmonger.
03:24Combine just the right elements in the devil's cauldron and create the ultimate protagonist.
03:29The girl with the talking vagina.
03:32With Tourette's Syndrome.
03:34Build your sets from scrap. Hire illegal immigrants.
03:37Shoot the whole thing in a week. Send it out spliced with a film about a robot rapist.
03:41And you're a grindhouse pioneer.
03:44But even then, your competitors won't leave you alone.
03:47They've already tasted blood.
03:49You can't hide behind your high fences and quietly tend your garden forever.
03:54Because in Hollywood Animal, you're a businessman.
03:57And every business is a struggle for power.
04:01And real power isn't when you can do good for yourself.
04:05Real power is when you can do bad to the other guy.