History VisualNovel / LastChanceInXollywood

''Last Chance in Xollywood'' is a sci-fi VisualNovel with RPG elements made in MediaNotes/RenPy by Willy Elektrix AKA Andi Hagen, together with Shea Kennedy. It's set in the far future of year 2099, and you play the part of an extraterrestrial movie director who's trying to make it big in Xollywood, the galaxy's most important film-making hub operating on Ingress, the orbital city home to hundreds of different alien races. The goal of the game is to make a movie titled ''Love Dies Screaming'': there are many ways to reach it, depending on the relationships you can achieve with the other members of the crew and cast, and on your skills (artistry, budget management, technical expertise, connections etc.) that are regulated by the RPG-like skill system.

Just like Willy Elektrix' previous games ''Alien Squatter'' and ''Superstorm Melon Date'', and more famously a series like ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', it is a satirical and humorous look on the current state of the world, seen through a sci-fi lens full of bizarre alien creatures, advanced technologies, psychic powers, mutants and other even weirder stuff.

''Last Chance in Xollywood'' is a sci-fi VisualNovel with RPG elements made in UsefulNotes/RenPy by Willy Elektrix AKA Andi Hagen, together with Shea Kennedy. It's set in the far future of year 2099, and you play the part of an extraterrestrial movie director who's trying to make it big in Xollywood, the galaxy's most important film-making hub operating on Ingress, the orbital city home to hundreds of different alien races. The goal of the game is to make a movie titled ''Love Dies Screaming'': there are many ways to reach it, depending on the relationships you can achieve with the other members of the crew and cast, and on your skills (artistry, budget management, technical expertise, connections etc.) that are regulated by the RPG-like skill system.

* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: It is said that the Federation of Planets in general likes Earth-produced movies, though they're implied to be seen as lowbrow, easily-consumed shlock. (And given Last Chance's track record, aliens are not really wrong...)

* MushroomMan: Maz and his sister Uz (and by extension all members of their race, the Zoberonians) are apparently this, though it's not referenced much outside of their portraits.

The game was released on [[https://store.steampowered.com/app/2548630/Last_Chance_in_Xollywood__Special_Edition/ Steam]] and Hagen's [[https://willyelektrix.itch.io/xollywood Itch.io page]] in September 2023 as a free game; later on, the Special Edition DLC added two new chapters and another playable character in addition to the selectable 3 (Zink of Rubycon, Orchid Primo and Manxy Five). It is also inspired by Hagen's own [[https://willyelektrix.itch.io/xenopolitan Xenopolitan]] tabletop RPG set on an alien metropolis.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and Hagen's [[https://willyelektrix.itch.io/xollywood Itch.io page]] in September 2023 as a free game; later on, the Special Edition DLC added two new chapters and another playable character in addition to the selectable 3 (Zink of Rubycon, Orchid Primo and Manxy Five). It is also inspired by Hagen's own [[https://willyelektrix.itch.io/xenopolitan Xenopolitan]] tabletop RPG set on an alien metropolis.

''Last Chance in Xollywood'' is a sci-fi VisualNovel with RPG elements made by Willy Elektrix AKA Andi Hagen, together with Shea Kennedy. It's set in the far future of year 2099, and you play the part of an extraterrestrial movie director who's trying to make it big in Xollywood, the galaxy's most important film-making hub operating on Ingress, the orbital city home to hundreds of different alien races. The goal of the game is to make a movie titled ''Love Dies Screaming'': there are many ways to reach it, depending on the relationships you can achieve with the other members of the crew and cast, and on your skills (artistry, budget management, technical expertise, connections etc.) that are regulated by the RPG-like skill system.

* MushroomMan: Maz and his sister Uz (and by extensions all members of their race, the Zoberonians) are apparently this, though it's not referenced much outside of their portraits.

* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Defied by Maz, our movie's star, who comes from a race of warmongering aliens that have no real concept of entertainment outside of fights to the death. He is mostly interested in being an actor (and wants to dabble in comedy, too) and hopes that working in the film industry will make his species realize that there's more to life than fighting. His sister Uz as well uses her fighting expertise for being Last Chance's stunt coordinator.

* YouNoTakeCandle: At times Uz the stunt coordinator seems to talk like this (and is also a {{Malaproper}}), because the universal translator isn't really good at translating her dialect. This causes her some grief, since people usually already look down on her for being from a backwater, war-mongering, "fifth-rate" planet.

''Last Chance in Xollywood'' is a sci-fi VisualNovel with RPG elements made by Willy Elektrix AKA Andi Hagen, together with Shea Kennedy. It's set in the far future and you play the part of an extraterrestrial movie director who's trying to make it big in Xollywood, the galaxy's most important film-making hub operating on Ingress, the orbital city home to dozens of different alien races. The goal of the game is to make a movie titled ''Love Dies Screaming'': there are many ways to reach it, depending on the relationships you can achieve with the other members of the crew and cast, and on your skills (artistry, budget management, technical expertise, connections etc.) that are regulated by the RPG-like skill system.

The game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} and Hagen's [[https://willyelektrix.itch.io/xollywood Itch.io page]] in September 2023 as a free game; later on, the Special Edition DLC added two new chapters and another playable character in addition to the selectable 3 already established. It is also inspired by Hagen's own [[https://willyelektrix.itch.io/xenopolitan Xenopolitan]] tabletop RPG set on an alien metropolis.

* TheEmpath: Jarl is an alien who can tell how others feel with his antennae; this, combined by the fact that he's the studio's janitor and a cockroach-like being who spends an inordinate amount of time inside the air vents, means that he knows almost everything about everyone who works with him.

* KingIncognito: A very curious example. [[spoiler:Jarl the janitor was born as the ''princess'' of his hive of alien cockroaches, but he didn't want to deal with his family and the pressure of becoming the hive's queen, so he abandoned them, changed his gender and identity, and was hired by Last Chance as a humble worker in order to learn how movie production worked, since he didn't want to get help from his planet's royals.]]

* MushroomMan: Maz and his sister Uz are basically this, though it's not referenced much outside of their portraits.

* HumansAreAverage: Human culture, food and entertainment are seemingly fairly popular in Ingress, though the way they are talked about by the characters implies they are nothing really special.

* YouNoTakeCandle: At times Uz the stunt coordinator seems to talk like this (and is also a {{Malaproper}}), because the universal translator isn't really good at translating her dialect. This causes her some grief, since people usually already look down on her for being from a backwater, war-mongering planet.

''Last Chance in Xollywood'' is a sci-fi VisualNovel with RPG elements made by Willy Elektrix AKA Andi Hagen, together with Shea Kennedy. It's set in the far future and you play the part of an extraterrestrial movie director who's trying to make it big in Xollywood, the galaxy's most important film-making hub operating on Ingress, the orbital city home to dozens of different alien races. The goal of the game is to make a movie titled ''LoveDies Screaming'': there are many ways to reach it, depending on the relationships you can achieve with the other members of the crew and cast, and on your skills (artistry, budget management, technical expertise, connections etc.) that are regulated by the RPG-like skill system.

* YouNoTakeCandle: At times Uz the stunt coordinator seems to talk like this, because the universal translator isn't really good at translating her dialect. This causes her some grief, since people usually already look down on her for being from a backwater, war-mongering planet.

''Last Chance in Xollywood'' is a sci-fi VisualNovel with RPG elements made by Willy Elektrix AKA Andi Hagen, together with Shea Kennedy. It's set in the far future and you play the part of an extraterrestrial movie director who's trying to make it big in Xollywood, the galaxy's most important film-making hub operating on Ingress, the orbital city home to dozens of different alien races. The goal of the game is to make a movie, but there are many ways to reach it, depending on the relationships you can achieve with the other members of the crew and cast, and on your skills (artistry, budget management, technical expertise, connections etc.) that are regulated by the RPG-like skill system.

Just like Willy Elektrix' previous games ''Alien Squatter'' and ''Superstorm Melon Date'', and series from another medium like ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', it is a satirical and humorous look on the current state of the world, seen through a sci-fi lens full of bizarre alien creatures, advanced technologies, psychic powers, mutants and other even weirder stuff.

* TheEmpath: Jarl is an alien who can tell how others feel with his antennae; this, combined by the fact that he's the studio's janitor and a cockroach-like being who spends an inordinate amount of time into the air vents, means that he knows almost everything about everyone who works with him.

* YouNoTakeCandle: Sometimes Uz the stunt coordinator seems to talk like this, since the universal translator isn't really good at translating her dialect. This causes her some grief, since people usually already look down on her for being from a backwater, war-mongering planet.

''Last Chance in Xollywood'' is a sci-fi VisualNovel with RPG elements made by Willy Elektrix AKA Andi Hagen, together with Shea Kennedy. It's set in the far future and you play the part of an extraterrestrial movie director who's trying to make it big in Xollywood, the galaxy's most important film-making hub operating on Ingress, the orbital city-continent home to hundreds of different alien races. The goal of the game is to make a movie, but there are many ways to reach it, depending on the relationships you can achieve with the other members of the crew and cast, and on your skills (artistry, budget management, technical expertise, connections etc.) that are regulated by the RPG-like skill system.

Just like Willy Elektrix' previous games ''Alien Squatter'' and ''Superstorm Melon Date'', and series from another medium like ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', it is a satyrical and humorous look on the current state of the world, seen through a sci-fi lens full of bizarre alien creatures, advanced technologies, psychic powers, mutants and other even weirder stuff.

* CreatorsOddball: In-universe, Last Chance usually churns out NoBudget Z-grade cheesy horror, splatter and sci-fi movies, but they once made a film titled ''Police on Trial'', a documentary dealing with police brutality and social justice. [[spoiler:Randy made it after her twin sister on Earth was shot for a speeding ticket.]]

* SpecialPersonNormalName: The {{Technopath}} psychic famous cinematographer worm-like alien lady is named... Vanilla. [[spoiler:It is a pseudonym, she used to be known as Goldie St. Isle before being blacklisted from the Hollywood industry.]]
* TokenHuman: Randy is the only human character in the main cast and the only unambiguously Earthling character.

* OlderThanTheyLook: One of the playable characters, Manxy, is this by default: her bio states she is 117 years old, but she just went through her third rejuvenation process.
* ProudWarriorRaceGuy: Defied by Maz, our movie's main actor, who comes from a race of warmongering aliens that have no real concept of entertainment outside of fights to the death. He is mostly interested in being an actor and hopes that working in the film industry will make his species realize that there's more to life than fighting. His sister Uz as well uses her fighting expertise for being Last Chance's stunt coordinator.

* TokenHuman: Randy is the only human character in the main cast and the only unambiguously Earthling character.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: The player character is getting their last chance of making it big in Xollywood, and they work for a studios named Last Chance, also owned by a woman named Randy Chance.

* HumansAreAverage: Human culture, food and entertainment are seen as fairly popular in Ingress, though the way they are talked about by the characters implies they are nothing really special.

* OlderThanTheyThink: One of the playable characters, Manxy, is this by default: her bio states she is 117 years old, but she just went through her third rejuvenation process.

* SpecialPersonNormalName: The {{Technopath}} psychic famous cinematographer worm-like alien lady is named... Vanilla. [[spoiler:It is a pseudonym, she used to be known as Goldie St. Isle before being blacklisted from the Hollywood industry.]]

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