REPORTING THE NEWS - DEVBLOG 1
Greetings, aspiring journalists and media moguls,
As we’re approaching our Closed Beta, we’d like to share more info about one of the key game mechanics.
As an influential publisher in 1930s NYC, you’ll need to send your reporters to find the hottest news.
That’s why we wanted to tell you about our design decisions regarding News Reporting.
REPORTING MENU
To give you the best experience of being a publisher we wanted to focus on:
[h2]Managing the size of the news: [/h2]
Some news will contain multiple stories to cover. Every additional story you decide to cover will change how big the news will be, but it will also take longer to get.
For example this news have 2 stories to cover, so you can send two reporters at the same time !
As time is your primary resource in News Tower you might rush the news despite missing key elements, and sales, to get it ready for the Sunday press.
[h2]
Managing which type of news, you want to cover: [/h2]
Every week you can challenge yourself to get specific types of news, should it be to unlock new areas of New York city depending on reader interests or fulfill a quest for one of the influential characters you will meet.
Every news article contains at least one Story Tag. Some are basic, others will need extra work from your reporters, which means a longer time where your reporter is away.
Story tags can be the following:
To do so we implemented, not so long ago, the “News researcher” which allows you to select which types of news you want to focus on.
We believe this lets you be in charge of what you want to print and which type of newspaper you want to run, instead of leaving you in the hands of fate.
Your reporters will come with 3 topics they can cover out of the 6 we have in the game.
You’ll need to choose wisely which reporter you will send as they won’t be available for some time.
Don’t run out of reporters if you don’t want to miss out on key stories.
For example below :
Earl Brown can cover crime, sports and society while Peter Grey can cover economics, entertainement and politics.
[h2]Upgrading the speed of news reporting: [/h2]
There are various elements that can affect your news reporting:
Travel options
Improved reporter skill levels
Buff their working place
Unexpected events
Using those will either take time for your reporter to get experienced or cost you hard earned money, and honestly who really needs to travel by train, when a bus for 12h is comfortable enough.
As we’re approaching our Closed Beta, we’d like to share more info about one of the key game mechanics.
As an influential publisher in 1930s NYC, you’ll need to send your reporters to find the hottest news.
That’s why we wanted to tell you about our design decisions regarding News Reporting.
REPORTING MENU
To give you the best experience of being a publisher we wanted to focus on:
- Simple storytelling
- Enough choices in how and what news you want to cover
- Understandable in a glimpse as it’s a core gameplay element
- A system that can easily be expanded upon for a richer experience later on.
[h2]Managing the size of the news: [/h2]
Some news will contain multiple stories to cover. Every additional story you decide to cover will change how big the news will be, but it will also take longer to get.
For example this news have 2 stories to cover, so you can send two reporters at the same time !
As time is your primary resource in News Tower you might rush the news despite missing key elements, and sales, to get it ready for the Sunday press.
[h2]
Managing which type of news, you want to cover: [/h2]
Every week you can challenge yourself to get specific types of news, should it be to unlock new areas of New York city depending on reader interests or fulfill a quest for one of the influential characters you will meet.
Every news article contains at least one Story Tag. Some are basic, others will need extra work from your reporters, which means a longer time where your reporter is away.
Story tags can be the following:
- Politics
- Tragic
- Educational
- Lies
- Exclusive
- Scandal
To do so we implemented, not so long ago, the “News researcher” which allows you to select which types of news you want to focus on.
We believe this lets you be in charge of what you want to print and which type of newspaper you want to run, instead of leaving you in the hands of fate.
Your reporters will come with 3 topics they can cover out of the 6 we have in the game.
You’ll need to choose wisely which reporter you will send as they won’t be available for some time.
Don’t run out of reporters if you don’t want to miss out on key stories.
For example below :
Earl Brown can cover crime, sports and society while Peter Grey can cover economics, entertainement and politics.
[h2]Upgrading the speed of news reporting: [/h2]
There are various elements that can affect your news reporting:
Travel options
Improved reporter skill levels
Buff their working place
Unexpected events
Using those will either take time for your reporter to get experienced or cost you hard earned money, and honestly who really needs to travel by train, when a bus for 12h is comfortable enough.