One thing I will say is there is a lot more going on during your broadcasts than you’ll pick up while playing. Seriously just play the game, all will become clear soon enough. We aren’t given all of the info straight away and I’m not going to go into any greater detail than that. They seem all nice and cordial, (and drunk,) but there is definitely something fishy about them. Advance has won and just come into power. Not for Broadcast begins the night of the election. This is when all your hard work gets stored. You’ll spend a bit of time in the archives. The question is are you going to show what big brother, (in this case Advance,) want you to show or are you going to have a few morals? Morals aren’t safe but being a good little zombie isn’t going to win you any points either. The most inconspicuous of news stories can be laced with all kinds of nasty mental poison. This game really shows us how easily we can be manipulated as a species and how television can be used as a very clever tool for propaganda. Aside from being really funny it’s also very dark and dystopian. Add to everything that I’ve just mentioned the story. Right … all of the above clear and making sense? No? Good. I’ve a good feeling this is getting remedied. There isn’t enough story there at the moment for your choices to matter. This isn’t something that’s been gone into in much depth yet but we’re only at the start of the Early Access road so that’s forgivable. I’m deliberately not going into these through fear of spoilers but the choices you make are really likely to matter when it comes to the overall plot. Between your bouts in front of the editing desk you’ll have to play through some choice driven scenarios. You want that bar going up, if it isn’t your viewers aren’t happy and keeping them watching is sort of your job. So with all this going on you need to cue up adverts and make sure they run on time and check the viewer gauge. Watching things back is a good way to learn from your mistakes. You’ll also need to set up headlines while bleeping out any swearing oh … and don’t get electrocuted it’s bad for your life. This is while everything else is still going on. Hit one of these and everything is going fuzzy. You need to move a little white dot through a maze of objects. At certain times of night your interference screen will come to life. You need to make sure everything is crisp and clear. This game is set in the 80s when fuzzy broadcasts were a very real possibility. While you’re trying to look at far too many things at once you’re also having to watch out for hazards like interference. We wouldn’t want any naked bodies running around on national television before the watershed now would we? If you can imagine that all of these are functioning at exactly the same time you’re already splitting your brain in three directions. These are your camera angles and you’ll be wanting to choose the best at all times. To the left of these are four more screens. There is roughly a two second delay between them which gives you a minescule amount of breathing room to do a bit of censorship should you need to. One depicts what is happening live and the other what the viewers will see. First you want to be watching you two main screens. Your desk is broken into zones and you need to keep an equal eye on all of them if you are to succeed. Your interface is the desk in the editing suite and this is where you’ll spend the actively playable sections of the game. You’ll need to be on your toes if you are to succeed. It’s very British humor so the dark sarcasm might not appeal to all but being a Brit myself I was right at home. There is a lot of really clever humor running through this game too. I think this is brilliant as Not for Broadcast is going to appeal to players from loads of different camps. It’s very story driven so you could call it a visual novel … it’s got sim elements … yeah I have no idea where to put this title. This is a game of madcap multi-tasking so there is definitely a puzzle element here. So before we go into real detail lets try and give you sort of an idea of the genre Not For Broadcast is sitting in. Sound fun? No it doesn’t and it isn’t but in the most wonderful way. Having absolutely no idea what you’re doing and being given tips from a voice on the phone you must then go forth and edit the National Nightly News as it’s broadcast live. Well at least you are for about the first two minutes of the game until you realise that the news editor has made himself scarce and you’ve just been given a promotion. In Not for Broadcast you take the role of a cleaner at a TV station.
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