Hollywood!

[Garrett]

Anyone had any experience with the hollywood package?
What does it offer in the gamedevelopment department?

[guru-666]

what is it and can you give us a link?

[Garrett]

http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de/en/prod_hollywood.html

[stopthegop]

I have Hollywood and Designer.  Top notch apps! They're MM creation and/or presentation programs, definately suitable for game development.  Kind of like a cross between Adobe Premiere, Powerpoint, and Scala. But easier to use and more powerful.  

[guru-666]

hmmm interesting,  I bet you get better results with asm code.... not that I can do that.

[stopthegop]

For sure.  But if you need product in a hurry, can't beat Hollywood.  Its sort of like the Visual Basic of the Amiga world.    

[Garrett]

Stopthegop.

Does it not provide support for AGA screenmodes?
What kind of games can one hope to create? Have tons of ideas and graphics for some point and click adventures and misc top down viewed stuff. Need to get some of it done and relatively fast.

[AJS]

Garrett wrote:
http://www.airsoftsoftwair.de/en/prod_hollywood.html

And A new version of Hollywood and Designer is due very soon andreas was hoping towards end of January,early february

also there is a Yahoo group Hollywood group

[Louis Dias]

stopthegop wrote:
For sure.  But if you need product in a hurry, can't beat Hollywood.  Its sort of like the Visual Basic of the Amiga world.    

It's a common runtime library for sure.
This is a good thing:  Hollywood "scripts" run on classic, AROS and OS4 all natively. :knuddel:

[Tempest]

@lou_dias
You forgot MorphOS


Hollywood is great. Unfortunally I haven't got the time to play around with it atm, just made a few little demo's which were easy to make.

[motorollin]

stopthegop wrote:
definately suitable for game development.

Really? How? I thought it was a MM presentation package, a bit like Scala. Short of a quiz, what other kind of game could you create with it?

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moto

[Tempest]

@motorollin
You can make games with it, there's a Pacman clone included with the examples.

There are commands for joystick control, mouse control, sprites and bobs, collision detection, double buffering and lots more.

[SamuraiCrow]

...and, unlike Scala, the Hollywood package comes with a full contingent of cross-compilers so you can write once and release full versions for all supported platforms.

BTW it does support AGA but you're better off with a graphics card as every operation is executed in 24-bit graphics emulation on Amiga chipsets.

[Hans_]

Garrett wrote:
Stopthegop.

Does it not provide support for AGA screenmodes?
What kind of games can one hope to create? Have tons of ideas and graphics for some point and click adventures and misc top down viewed stuff. Need to get some of it done and relatively fast.

Hollywood is perfect for point n' click adventures and should be able to do top down view stuff too. Just no 3D. A good example is a bonus game of GlobalGladiators (side-view platform game) ported to Hollywood. You can find it here on OS4depot. I'm waiting for the new versions of Hollywood and Designer as they're supposed to contain a lot of improvements.

Hans