Category: Monsterhearts

I thought it might be interesting to share my “pitch” for a new play by post Monsterhearts 2 game Sunset Hearts.

I decided I really wanted to run something like this after I watched a bit of “The Unauthorized Beverly Hills, 90210 Story”

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5058628/)

Paparazzi, smothering families, greedy managers, frenemies, rivals, groupies, drugs and alcohol. Just another day in Hollywood for the stars of Sunset Hearts.

Of course, it doesn’t help that the stars of the show are all monsters.

Sunset Hearts, now in it’s third season, is a runaway success. The producer’s motto, ‘too much is barely enough’, combined with plenty of sex, betrayal and tragedy, proved a winning formula.

SSH has a huge teen and young adult fan base all over the world. Advertisers are breaking down the door and the stars of the show are legit famous. It’s reviled by critics and snubbed by the awards establishment, but who needs critical acclaim and dust collectors when you have fame, money and all the accompanying perks?

Player characters are all teen actors in a trashy, but very successful, teen drama. They’re also monsters. The producers demand that they all go to an exclusive school close to the studio, where they can be coddled and controlled. As part of the character design players will choose their role in the Sunset Hearts.

They’re young, rich and famous, with all of LA as their plaything, but all that doesn’t mean things are going to go their way. Hollywood Babylon beckons with sin, indulgence and excess. The swarms of paparazzi and camera-phone wielding citizens would love to catch the stars at their worst. You have to fight your fellow cast for every second of screen time At any moment the writers might just decide to kill your character, and on top of that, you’re a monster.