Not For Broadcast is a full-motion propaganda simulator developed by British video game studio NotGames and published by tinyBuild. The game was released with its first episode in early access on 30 January 2020. The full game, including the third and final episode, was released worldwide on 25 January 2022.
The game takes place in an unnamed European country (resembling the United Kingdom) in the mid-1980s,[a] where a new far-left progressive political party named Advance has won a surprise landslide election victory and begins to handle the country in an authoritarian dystopian fashion.
The player takes the role of Alex Winston, a studio director in a national television station, having to produce a live broadcast, play adverts, censor swear words, and avoid interference in an effort to keep the viewership high.
On early access release, Not For Broadcast received positive reviews, with praise going to its gameplay and mechanics while being criticized for confusing political storytelling.
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Not For Broadcast Gameplay
Broadcast Days
The player plays the role of studio director Alex Winston in the production control room of the National Nightly News. The player uses the vision mixer to select which camera feed to broadcast. After a two-second broadcast delay, the feed selected is broadcast.
The player is required to censor any profanity or objectionable language by bleeping out the word as it is broadcast. At later levels, the player can also add sound effects such as applause and canned laughter to the broadcast.
The player also uses a waveform monitor to control any interference. An audience meter gives feedback on the player’s performance: good editing will help raise viewership, while poor editing, failing to censor, or allowing interference to interrupt the broadcast will lower viewership. If the audience meter falls to zero, the player fails the level.
During each broadcast, the player selects three advertisements to play during breaks. The adverts selected influence the game outcome by promoting Advance or its rival Disrupt, increasing the player’s earnings by promoting companies in which the player holds shares, or unlocking variations in the storyline.
At the end of each broadcast day, the player is graded on their broadcast, which affects his pay. The player is given the option to watch their broadcast as well as the unused footage.
Not For Broadcast Non-Broadcast Days
The protagonist has a life and family outside the broadcast room. This is represented through an “Incident system”, a series of text-based choices in a visual novel format where the player, based on a brief story about their private life, makes decisions. These decisions are influenced by what the player chose to do in the Broadcast room.
Sometimes, choices made in the incident system can also influence what happens in the broadcast room. Choosing certain options matters to the family, and they affect the dynamic and relationships the player character has with their family. A major theme in the game is shaping the world within the broadcast room, followed by living in the world you’ve shaped and lived with the consequences of those choices.
- Not For Broadcast Cast
- Paul Baverstock as Jeremy Donaldson, the male co-anchor of the National Nightly News
- Andrea Valls as Megan Wolfe, the female co-anchor of the National Nightly News
- Sarah Gibbons as Jenny, the floor manager.
- Jade Johnson as Robyn Shorte, a reporter.
- George Vere as Patrick Bannon, a reporter. Vere also plays Patrick’s father, television personality Graham Bannon, in the telethon episode.
- Emma Mulkern as Not Patrick/Francis, a reporter who substitutes for Patrick Bannon.
- Claire Racklyeft as Julia Salisbury, a lawyer turned Advance co-leader and Prime Minister.
- Roger Alborough as Peter Clement, a television personality turned Advance co-leader and Prime Minister.
- Jonathan Hawkins as Alan James, a conspiracy theorist turned Disrupt spokesman.
- Dan Ellis as Geoff Algebra
- Adam Willis as Tommy Harris
- Helen Potter as Phillipa Rayden
Not For Broadcast Development
The first episode of Not For Broadcast was released in early access on 30 January 2020, with the developers stating their intention to keep it in early access for approximately eighteen months while updating three free new episodes that caused the game’s price to increase. Days before filming began for a second episode, the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom led to lockdowns which ceased all production.
Instead of pausing production, the developers chose to create a bonus chapter titled Not For Broadcast: Lockdown, which contains a new storyline, with the cast being stuck at home “as they shelter from a rampaging horde of animatronic children’s toys.” The chapter was released alongside a new challenge mode, featuring 4 different challenge variations.
Due to the lockdown delaying production of the game, the original plan to have 4 episodes was revised, and the story was rewritten to be told in three episodes instead. Finally, a year after the original release, on 28 January 2021 a second episode was released, which showcased the impacts of certain decisions in previous chapters and was released together with an hour-long documentary titled
“Not for Broadcast: Lights, Camera, Lockdown,” about how the development team behind the game reveals how they managed to produce two video-filled updates of the game amidst a global pandemic. After releasing Episode 2, production was halted once again by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, which further delayed the release of Episode 3 until 25 January 2022.
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