Stay Tuned

Running the station

Stay Tuned is a PC game about running the vision desk at the last local TV station in a small country. Over seven days, you direct the live broadcast: cut between cameras, bleep banned words, tune out interference, roll ads and keep something on screen. Your producer shouts instructions while a government censor watches from the booth.

The work starts gently and gets harder as the country falls apart. When feeds fail and sirens start, you have seconds to choose what goes out. You might air the official line, a frightened man telling the truth, or a canned-food jingle. Leaving the screen empty means dead air.