Build the office
Draw rooms on the floor, place the furniture by hand and give people a desk of their own. The office is in 3D, with the town, the traffic and the railway around it, and everyone in it keeps office hours.
One radio station, 1970
For years your uncle, the newspaper publisher Tabby Loid, lobbied the government of Etheria to let companies make radio and television. On 1 January 1970 the law changes. He puts up the money and lends you his business consultant, Penny Cash. The company is yours.
Broadcast Empire is a tycoon game. You rent a floor, build a studio, hire hosts and put a first show on the air. From there you grow, year by year, into television and across the five regions of the country, against three commercial rivals and the public broadcaster.
The game is free, and it is an alpha: it changes with every version, and what players ask for decides what comes next.
What you do
Make the programs
Hire hosts and producers, make shows and fill the day from the morning to late at night. Radio comes first. Television follows: bought series at the start, then studios for news, talk shows, game shows and soaps.
Run the company
Win sponsors and keep them, run campaigns, bid for licenses in every region and research what comes next, from FM stereo to streaming. The monthly report says whether it pays.
In the game today
- A company from 1970 onward, in five regions with audiences of their own
- Rooms you draw, furniture and studio equipment you place, up to three floors
- Radio and television, live shows and bought content
- Sponsors you get to know, marketing campaigns, license auctions
- A research tree by decade
- Sports events, elections and recessions
- A living office: dirt, wear, morale, a canteen, support staff
- A tutorial with the voices of Uncle Tabby and Penny Cash
- Milestones that open the game step by step, and a wiki inside it
- Named saves, three difficulties, a light and a dark scheme