Community requests, a new roadmap and a big thank you

Hi there! We wanted to take this opportunity to say our thanks and let you in on a few plans for Not For Broadcast’s future.

Here's a quick video from us to you, and below it is a more detailed breakdown of our upcoming plans:

Thank you!

Thanks for checking out Not For Broadcast - whether you’ve bought, streamed, tweeted about, reviewed, chatted or rang up your mum about our game then thank you, it all means the world.

There’s no way we could have expected that with over 1000 reviews we’d be at 97% positive, or that we’d make the front page of Steam for so long.

We decided to stream upon launch for what we’d thought might be 4-5 hours, to say hi to you all and celebrate what we’d achieved together. That stream turned out to be 12 hours, and we ended up doing it again and again until we ended up at around 26 hours worth of streaming in the first 55 hours after launch.

Above all, the most amazing thing that happened was when people on our streams bought copies for other viewers, complete strangers they never spoke to before - we can’t accurately express how incredible it is to see that kind of generosity, let alone to see it involving our game.

Community Requests

We’ve been paying attention to the feedback and requests you’ve given us through launch, and we’ve begun planning a few new tweaks and additions to the game we think you might like. (Some of these have been implemented in the first month of patches (things like adding in a Level Select and being able to Hang Up the Tutorial).)

Requests already added

• Level Select

• Hanging up the tutorial

Other Requests

• Scoring system rework: audience reaction should be positive to viewing certain backstage footage (the moment where Blunderclatch blows up after his interview comes to mind - currently the audience switches off if you show this, but a large section of our players have pointed out, and rightly so, it would make more sense for audience to go up at this point, but for your boss to be unhappy with you instead)

• A “challenge mode”: to really test your skills when editing Broadcasts. We’re hoping the addition of Free Play in the Gameplay Update will cater to this as well as providing a fun new way to play the game and earn specific rewards.

• Backstage/Behind the Scenes content: Things like blooper reels, videos showing the process of actually making the game, that sort of thing. We’ve actually taken on board a videographer to help out with the backstage stuff now we know you guys want to see it!

• Not For Broadcast OST: Almost all the music in Not For Broadcast is written/composed/performed in-house by Jason Orbaum, with some help from some other rather talented individuals (full details can be found in the game’s credits!). Having long ago done a comedy album for one of our previous much smaller and less substantial titles, we’re quite keen to release an OST for this one as well!

• ** Revamp the Archive**: The most frequent request that we have plans to implement in our first big Gameplay Update is to revamp the Archive/Rushes room. In addition to doing some general tidying up of these areas, we’ll be adding a Fast Forward/Rewind function to the tapes, to give much more flexibility for players wanting to watch back previous Broadcasts or see the bits they weren’t supposed to show live on air.

Roadmap

So you can all have a good nosy at what we’re up to, here’s our current roadmap: All of the below are priority targets, and do not form an exhaustive list of content to be added/updated.

Upcoming Secret Opportunity (shh..)

To round out this update, you may have heard rumours that we’re currently casting for new episodes of Not For Broadcast. Well, we’d really like to involve you guys by opening up that process to you.

That’s right - you might be in with a chance to be an extra in a scene featured on the National Nightly News.

We’re still figuring out the logistics, but rest assured we’ll be back in touch as and when we have them. We want to really give back and thank you guys for all your support, and this opportunity will only be the start.

We’ve also set up a brand new Not For Broadcast newsletter which will let you in on a few behind the scenes secrets and updates - you may already be signed up if you’ve entered your email on the tinyBuild or NotGames website - but the link to join is here.

Thanks again, you absolute beauties - The NotGames team.

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