General[]
Pixelberry Studios is the company that created "Hollywood U: Rising Star". Originally, the company consisted of a small team of workers, that branched off from Electronic Arts. At EA, the team created "Surviving High School" and "Cause of Death: Can You Catch the Killer?". Since leaving EA, they created "High School Story" (also referred to as "High School Story Prime" to differentiate it from the company's more successful app Choices: Stories You Play's series by the same name) and "Hollywood U".
In 2017, Pixelberry Studios was acquired by Nexon[1]. In 2018, the company decided to stop updating and supporting "High School Story" and "Hollywood U: Rising Stars", and instead focus purely on "Choices".
In 2022, the company decided to officially shut down the game's servers.
Team[]
- Eric: Story Lead
- Jennifer
Social Media and Websites[]
- Pixelberry Studios company website
The company has stopped updating the game, stopped customer service, and as of August 10, 2022, has officially shut down their servers for this game. The below pages and social media channels are listed for reference purposes, as players inquiring about "Hollywood U" through those channels will probably go unanswered.
- Hollywood U's official page
- Hollywood U's forum
- Tumblr
- Twitch Channel - according to the site, the last time they streamed was "5 years ago" (2017) and there are no videos on the site.
Articles[]
- December 15, 2017: Pixelberry talks in their blogpost about bringing several characters from HWU into the Choices's series Red Carpet Diaries.
- April 12, 2017: Pixelberry reflects on HWU in their blogpost.
- Statistics on SensorTower.