Hollywood Mogul is a computer game released in 1997 that allows players to take charge of a movie studio. It was conceived, designed and published solely by Carey DeVuono. An economic simulation game, players can choose movie plots to use for a movie, set production budgets and select the talent as well. The game's goal is to create movies that sell well. Players must juggle the added concerns of movie budgets, cost over-runs, and irritable actors and directors in order to succeed.

A sequel, Hollywood Mogul 3 was released in late 2006. A pre-release was given to message board members and long-term fans on September 26, 2006.

Game Mechanics

Hollywood Mogul has five difficulty levels to choose from, each with higher annual budgets. A higher annual budget causes higher monthly expenses, making it more difficult to keep the studio profitable, which provides a greater challenge to the player.

• New In Town ($125,000,000 Annual Budget)
• Still Green ($250,000,000 Annual Budget)
• On My Way ($500,000,000 Annual Budget)
• Hollywood Player ($750,000,000 Annual Budget)
• Hollywood Mogul ($1,000,000,000 Annual Budget)

Movies come in fifteen set genres, ranging from Comedy

Comedy

Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...

 to Drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 to Science Fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

, as well as six sub genres such as "farce" or "slapstick." Movies can rise and fall depending on what genre they are and what time of year they are released.

Acting, screenwriting and directing talent also play a great role in the success of a film. More popular talent costs more to hire, but have the benefit of raising the noticiability of a film. Likewise, production budget, special effects budgets and advertising play a big role as well.

Recognition

Robert Coffey of Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World

Computer Gaming World was a computer game magazine founded in 1981 by Russell Sipe as a bimonthly publication. Early issues were typically 40-50 pages in length, written in a newsletter style, including submissions by game designers such as Joel Billings , Dan Bunten , and Chris Crawford...

 ranked Hollywood Mogul as one of the top three strategy games of all time in the magazine's 20th anniversary issue.

In February 2002, it was inducted to the Hall of Belated Fame by Home of the Underdogs

Home of the Underdogs

Home of the Underdogs was an abandonware archive founded by Thai Sarinee Achavanuntakul , aka: Underdogs or Fringer on her own blog, in September 1998, and grew to be one of the most significant abandonware websites on the Internet, despite losing its domains to cybersquatters and then briefly...

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External links

• http://www.hollywood-mogul.com (Official website)
• https://secure.netsolhost.com/hollywood-mogul.com/vbull/forums/index.php (Official message board)