@me_unit_intern
Fifteen Cent's golden duck denies everything. We have it on camera, not blinking. #duckgate
@bling_hills_hoa That duck owes three years of dues.
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The feed
Hollyweird is trending. Unfortunately.
Everyone in town is posting through it. Swipe through the latest, then go make some news of your own.
Fake posts from a fake town.
@sommelier_in_recovery
Peeper Dingleberry ordered water and described its "finish" for 40 minutes. #thecraft
@greg_drives_carpet Notes of tap.
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@red_carpet_cam
Anya Taylor-Annoy blinked. Scientists say it was a smudge. #blinkwatch
@regular_person_47 I've been staring back since March.
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@spoiler_free_pod
Mark Bufalow just leaked this post. And the next one. Sorry about the wall. #spoilers
@me_unit_intern He told me how my life ends.
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@dex_shutter
Sent the $9,000 youth elixir to a lab. Results are back. It's kale. #anbremochrome
@clout_coffee_barista We sell this for four bucks.
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@valet_anonymous
Ellin DeGenerous told me to be kind, then parked across both of my spots. #bekind
@freed_hostage_3 You're on the list now.
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@studio_lot_guy
Dweeb Stone Johnerson's trailer got its own trailer. That one has a trailer too. #notinthescript
@bling_hills_hoa The little one has a gym.
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@botox_and_bagels
Free autographs table enters week three. The tumbleweed asked for a selfie. #stillfree
@regular_person_47 Who is it even for?
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The game
They took hostages. You took a camera.
Hollyweird's so-called celebrities have kidnapped regular people to pad out their entourages. You're Dex Shutter, a paparazzo with nothing to lose and a camera full of receipts. Bust the hostages out, then humiliate the phonies until their follower counts crash.
An open cityPalm-lined avenues, strip malls, Bling Hills mansions and the HOLLYWEIRD sign on the hill. Grab a car and go.
Everything breaksOver 500 destructible things: towers, palms, lamps, billboards, mansion walls. Property value: 0.
Out cold, still humiliatableRagdoll knockouts mean they can't run from the tattoo gun. Or the poop bag.
Catch them in the actGet the camera up at the right moment and the internet gets a new LOSER.
Rob the phoniesWalk into shops and mansions. Crack the safes. Press F to lift their swag. Their bodyguards will have notes.
They curse, we bleepThe celebs swear like it's an awards-show afterparty. The game beeps every word.
First or third personPress V. Egos look even bigger up close.
The Humiliation Kit
No weapons. Just consequences.
Nobody gets hurt in Hollyweird, except reputations. Every tool leaves a mark the phonies have to wear in their next post.
1
FistsA classic for a reason.
FistsA classic for a reason.2
Pool noodleFoam justice.
Pool noodleFoam justice.3
Inflatable flamingoBonk, but tropical.
Inflatable flamingoBonk, but tropical.4
Squirt gunHold to drench. Ruins blowouts.
Squirt gunHold to drench. Ruins blowouts.5
Cream pieThrow it. Obviously.
Cream pieThrow it. Obviously.6
CameraFlash, post, watch the ratio.
CameraFlash, post, watch the ratio.7
ShaverA fresh stripe they didn't book.
ShaverA fresh stripe they didn't book.8
Tattoo gunPHONY. FLOP. MID. Permanent.
Tattoo gunPHONY. FLOP. MID. Permanent.9
Poop bagDelivered with love.
Poop bagDelivered with love.0
ScissorsSnip the ego (and the outfit).
ScissorsSnip the ego (and the outfit).G
Breakaway guitarKRANG! Bar-fight approved.
Breakaway guitarKRANG! Bar-fight approved.The phonies
Famous for being famous.
Any resemblance to real public figures is the joke. Every one of them is a fictional caricature.
Fifteen Cent
Boss · The Me-Unit Compound
Mogul, rapper and owner of an ocean of off-brand Vitamin Waterish. Lives behind gold walls with a "Me-Unit" of bodyguards. His future holds one empty autograph table.
Emand M's
Rust Row (coming soon)
"Detroit!" "Eight Miles!" Challenge him to a rap battle, and at half Clout his alter ego Skim Shady splits off to help.
Peeper Dingleberry
Prestige TV royalty
Will monologue at you about wine, the craft and his dragon show. At length. Bring a pie.
Anya Taylor-Annoy
Professional middle-distance starer
Has never once blinked on camera. Every red carpet is a chess match only she knows about.
Ariana Venti
Whistle-note emergency
One ponytail, eleven octaves, a hoodie that could house a family. Hits notes only paparazzi drones can hear.
Mark Bufalow
Big green method actor
Gets furious when you spoil the movie. He spoiled it first, on a podcast, by accident, again.
Ellin DeGenerous
New · Daytime kindness enforcer
Dances into every room and tells you to be kind. Keeps a laminated list of everyone who wasn't.
Dweeb Stone Johnerson
New · Contractually undefeated
One eyebrow, one tequila, one 4 a.m. workout posted at noon. His contract says he can't lose a fight. Yours doesn't.
Missions
Two jobs. Zero respect.
Mission 1
The Me-Unit Compound
- Crash the gate of Fifteen Cent's gold-trimmed mansion.
- Free the hostages from his Me-Unit bodyguards.
- Drain his Clout meter with the Humiliation Kit until his followers crash.
Mission 2
AnbremoChrome (it's kale)
- Crash the phonies' secret "youth elixir" gala.
- Spike the $9,000 kale-smoothie fountain with hot sauce.
- Flash-photograph the guests and pop the FOREVER YOUNG ego arch.
Dex's wall
It's all connected. (It isn't.)
Dex hasn't slept since the kale. Every theory on this wall is about a made-up town and is completely, provably stupid. He has string, though.
The kale is kale
Nine grand a glass. Sent it to a lab. The secret ingredient is also kale.
The duck is watching
Pool toys don't follow you around a deck.
There is one red carpet
All of them are the same carpet. A guy named Greg drives it around at night.
There is one trophy
Forty award shows, six winners, one trophy. They just pass it down the row.
Nobody has eaten here
Not once. The bagels aren't moving either.
The sign is load-bearing
Pull the second L and Bling Hills slides into the juice bar. Worth checking.
Source: a guy at Clout Coffee. Fiction, folks. Nothing here is a claim about any real person.
Free stickers
Steal these.
Group chats, Discord, your laptop. Tap one to grab it, or take all 30.
Screens
Welcome to Hollyweird.
In-engine captures from a recent test build. Work in progress.
Download
Play the test build.
Windows 10/11, about 300 MB. Install once and it keeps itself up to date: every launch grabs the newest build first.
Checking the latest build...
New in this build
1
Open PowerShellStart menu, type PowerShell, press Enter.
2
Paste this and press Enter
irm https://dl.hollyweird.co/install.ps1 | iex3
Play from the desktopA Hollyweird shortcut appears. Launch from it and you're always on the latest build.
The launcher is a small script, so Windows may warn you. Choose More info, then Run anyway.
On your phone? This one's PC only. and send it to yourself.
Get updates
Get on Dex's list.
New builds. New phonies. New ways to ruin them. Be the first to know when the next one drops.
Only Hollyweird news, no spam. We hate phonies. Reply to any email and we'll take you off.
FAQ
Asked by nobody's publicist.
Are these real celebrities?
No. They're fictional caricatures with pun names, and the jokes go after the ego and the public persona. It's parody, like the cartoons you were told not to watch.
Who is this for?
Grown-ups with a sense of humor. Expect slapstick, bleeped swearing and a recurring bag of poop. The game isn't age-rated yet, so treat it as adults only.
What does the installer actually do?
It puts a small updater in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hollyweird, adds a desktop shortcut and downloads the game. Every part of the download is checked against a SHA-256 checksum. Read the script before you run it. You should do that with any script off the internet, including this one.
How do I uninstall it?
Close the game, delete the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Hollyweird folder, and delete the Hollyweird shortcut from your desktop. That's all of it.
Mac? Linux? Console?
Windows only for now.
Is it finished?
Nope. It's a test build, it changes often, and things will break, including the things that aren't supposed to.