News Tower News

News Tower HQ wishes all of you a happy new year!

2022 will be an exciting year for us. Since the October Edition of Next Fest 2021, we have been working hard on new features, bug fixes and AI improvement to deliver the Early Access version of ‘News Tower’ to Steam this year. (New) features which we have been working on include:

- Totally revamped the way you report on news offering more depth and gameplay.
- You can now choose a direction of your newspaper and work your way towards targets which apply to this direction to satisfy and reach your readers.
- No more hard requirements on news. You can only do better.
- News items now have categories and a quality mark which play an important role in reaching your audience targets.
- A different and more simple mechanic for ads.
- News can now have ‘risks’ attached to it like lawsuits or injury points for your employees which adds more depth to the choices you make.
- Added an overview screen of all your employees
- Employees now have traits giving them unique characteristics which can be useful in many aspects of the game.
- Added category bonuses: you earn more points by placing similar categories on the same page of your newspaper.
- Enhanced hints for placing buff objects. Preview areas where placing accessories makes sense.
- Skill/Leveling system for employees actually works now.
- Search the globe more efficiently using filters for category or news quality.
- A working kitchen with a cook.
- Shared waiting lines for toilets and coffee machines.
- Employees take elevators based on congestion, not randomly.

Also improved the general AI, have been working on further game performance optimizations and (obviously) lots of little bug fixes.

We’re very excited for what’s to come this year and about all improvements and features. We hope you are as well and are looking forward to sharing the EA release of News Tower with all of you.

Stay tuned.

News Tower HQ

Streaming News Tower

Join us on the 6th of October 2021 for a live Q&A with our development team!

During our second Next Fest livestream, our development team will host a live Q&A giving you the opportunity to ask all you questions about the Demo but also about the upcoming game, further game development and much more!

Join us on the 1st of October for the News Tower Demo Tutorial!

During our first Steam Next Fest Livestream, we will walk you through the demo of News Tower. During this tutorial, you will learn how to create your newspaper, earn reputation points, close advertisement deals, how to facilitate Editors, Typesetters, Compositors, Illustrators and Cartographers within your tower.
and how to manage your team and account for a clear and efficient infrastructure.

News Tower Demo Released During Steam Next Fest – October Edition 2021
We have some exciting news! During the October Edition of Steam Next Fest 2021, we will be releasing the first playable demo of News Tower. The demo will be available within the Steam Store on the 1st of October 2021. This also means that we will participate in the October Edition of Steam Next Fest 2021.

The News Tower Demo will include the following features:
- A full reporting to print chain.
- 6 news categories with different angle options which earns you reputation points.
- Use your reputation points to score advertisement deals for your newspaper.
- Facilitate Editors, Typesetters, Compositors, Illustrators and Cartographers within your tower.
- Manage your team and account for a clear and efficient infrastructure.

We’re really excited for you to try our demo! Also, we are looking forward to hearing all your feedback on our very first demo. All feedback is much appreciated and will help us to improve and deliver the best possible full edition of News Tower. So please do post your feedback on our Steam Community page or connect with us on our Discord server.

News Tower EA Release Delayed
Following the news of the release of our first demo, we sadly had to postpone our Early Access release. Our first deadline turned out to be too ambitious. For the past few weeks, we’ve worked hard to be able to deliver a playable demo of the game. We’re looking forward to seeing all your first published newspapers.

Next Fest Livestreams (1st & 6th Of October)
We have also scheduled 2 livestreams during Steam Next Fest. Our first livestream will take place on the 1st of October at 6PM (CEST) and will encompass a full tutorial of the demo. Our second Next Fest livestream will be on Wednesday the 6th of October and will also take place at 6PM (CEST); this will be a live Q&A session with the development team! We look forward to seeing you during one of these livestreams and hope you enjoy our demo.

Stay tuned!

Best,
The News Tower team