You direct a local TV newsroom, choosing which stories to pursue and air each night.
BREAKING NEWS — the local TV news game.
You're the news director at a local TV station. Every morning, the same five stories land on every rival's desk. You can't finish them all. What you lead with, what you kill, and what you actually get on the air decides who wins the night, and who this town trusts.
TEACH IT IN FIVE MINUTES. PLAY IT FOR YEARS.
Breaking News plays like a classic family board game, with real strategy underneath for players who go looking for it. A full game is ten days of newscasts and takes 45–60 minutes.
HOW A DAY WORKS
• Five stories hit the board, and every station sees the same ones.
• Send your crews to get both sides, or run a story one-sided and hope nobody else does it right.
• Build tonight's show: your top story counts triple, and your closer never costs trust.
• Take it to air. Then watch the reveal as every station's choices land at once.
EVERY BAD BREAK HAS A NAME
There are no dice. If a story falls apart, it's because a rival got both sides while you ran it thin, and you got scooped. Every number is labelled, and "Show the math" explains exactly why you scored what you scored.
RATINGS VS. TRUST
Big flashy stories pull ratings. Cutting corners costs trust. Your final score is your ratings times your trust, so the loudest station doesn't always win.
MORE TO WORK WITH
• Exclusives: private leads only you hold.
• Freelancers: hire extra help when one crew isn't enough.
• Ratings Windows: days that count double, so plan ahead.
• Technical Difficulties: the newsroom chaos every station knows, from broken live trucks to backed-up plumbing.
PLAY SOLO OR WITH FRIENDS
• Solo: take on rival stations run by the computer. Works offline.
• Multiplayer: 2–6 players, each on their own phone. Host a room, share a six-digit code, and go. No accounts, no sign-up.
• Big-screen scoreboard: put the live scores and the nightly reveal on a TV or laptop for the whole room. It's optional; every game plays on phones alone. Dedicated Roku and Fire TV apps coming soon.
A training day walks new players through their first show, step by step.
No ads. No tracking. No accounts.
All stations, stories and scores in the game are fictional.
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