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You moved out — chasing your long-standing childhood dream of becoming a screenwriter.  Believing this little city is the perfect start for your fresh new career, you try your luck in the local movie studio where none other than the city's bombshell, Mr. Puzzles, seems rather impressed by your work. 

... Who? 

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Behind the Broadcast: The Director's Cut is a romance driven visual novel and a prequel to the Behind the Broadcast SMG4 AU. You do not need any knowledge of the SMG4 universe or my AU to play this! 

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THE GAME INCLUDES:

  • Gender neutral player (The game lets you pick your own name, but be aware that the text does include Elis' character features, such as jokes about her fur + her appearance in cutscenes)
  • 100+ Unique character sprites 
  • 6 Endings (3 major endings)
  • Around 35k words 
  • 11  fully animated cutscenes
  • Around 10 CGs
  • Pathetic TV man

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Available only for Windows, Mac and Linux  for now

Mobile support coming soon !

WARNING: some bad words, glitchy and shaky effects on text and cutscenes, unsettling ambience  (heartbeat, static) can trigger anxiety/discomfort 

CREDITS: 

Mr. Puzzles belongs to SMG4

Music/Sound Effects from: DOVA-SYNDROME, Freesound, MusMus, Pixabay


Updated 5 days ago
Published 16 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Release date 13 days ago
Rating
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(55 total ratings)
AuthorElisCZ
GenreVisual Novel
Tags2D, Cute, Dating Sim, Hand-drawn, Indie, relationship, Ren'Py, Romance, Slice Of Life
Average sessionA few hours
LanguagesEnglish
ContentNo generative AI was used

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BehindTheBroadcast-1.0-pc.zip 457 MB
BehindTheBroadcast-1.0-mac.zip 452 MB

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some VN makes me staying away, especially tavern talk; it's so hard to understand at who's talking and had to constantly checking history. surprisingly this one doesn't, even more surprise was i'm not even into romance VN and i like it, thumb up!

PRO TIPS AT BOTTOM VV

i love this game...don't forget it.

overall i played this freaking game over and over and over and OVER! just so i COULD GET THE GOOD ENDING!! AFTER MY 5th TIME PLAYING THROUGH!!!

(and that's not something i say often, i usually just play through once and then i'm done) 

  but i swear THE AMOUNT OF TIMES I got "FRIEND ZONED"  omg 5 freaking TIMES!! then FINALLY I GET THEN GOOD ENDING and i swear i started crying IT WAS AMAZING !! 

and  OVERALL i thought that this game was AMAZING out of all the times i played and multiple endings i got

 (i think im fav ending is if you say no at the GOOD ending (which i saved just in case and thank god i did) it will close the game)

PRO TIPS!!

if you keep getting "friend zoned"  and want the GOOD ENDING 

1. just let linda(or whatever her name is) ramble and don't say no to helping her or keeping the conversation going

2. at the party aka your movie premiere IF YOU ASK LINDA were mr.puzzles is THEN YOU GET THE GOOD ENDING but IF MR.PUZZLES COMES UP TO YOU you will get the "FRIEND ZONED" ENDING 

3. keep this mind set of "helping everyone" or saying YES to everyone "just trust me bro" this HELPS

4. getting the good ending is hard (it took me 5 times and the better half of 2 days) so don't get depressed if you got a bad one (like me when i  First 'ed played though :/ )

5. once you get the job SAVE!!! if you want the GOOD ENDING  because you'll be saying "thank you past me" BECAUSE YOU WILL GET FRIEND ZONED ALMOST HALF THE TIME IF NOT MORE!!

k that about it i HOPE you find this helps 

THXS 4 READING :p

I love this game and have never been so excited tovfind different endings, 5 stars

nooo youre gonna give mr puzzles his epik powers


didnt you watch

smg4 arc nooo

This is a wonderfully written Visual novel and I enjoyed it! I love the story and the artwork in the game, I had tons of fun with it!

me encanta este juego!! :D

chat, I don't have a PC! :(  I can't play- NNNNNOOOOOOO- l hope y'all had fun playing it tho-  TvT

Romance novels aren't really my thing, so I was convinced this wouldn't grab me. Instead, I found myself following the live stream with curiosity right to the end. I think that’s the best compliment I can give: you managed to engage even those who, on paper, weren't your target audience.
Kudos to the team! 

Dude genuinely got a standing ovation from me the moment i finished the game (True ending), it was absolutely amazinf SO wholesome and cute, it's just so peak. Continue doing this, your art and writing are amazing, gained a new fan seriously

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this is a amazing game!the art style of the sprits are very lovely its so amazing to see this au turned into a game

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I've never written a comment on itch.io in my years of downloading and playing VN's  And I've only gotten two endings so far, one being a main one I'm pretty sure where MC and puzzles just stay as collogues. Its almost 1 in the morning so I'm quitting for the night. BUT OH MY GOD. some of the things I've heard and read in the writing of this VN genuinely make me feel like I want to sob my eyes out because its so relatable, and i both hate and love that fact. This is one of the best VN's I've seen out there.. I saw it and instantly knew who made it, since id followed the creator on youtube. I'm not even close to being finished since i NEED to get the 4 other endings. But i predict it will 100% make me cry at some point. i cant say enough how good this has been so far and how much i love it.... AUGH ITS JS SO GOOD <3.

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let it be known that I, a grown woman, cried at this game. Multiple times. In fact, I'm still in tears as I'm writing this. I got all the endings and this is by far the best VN I've ever played, even when I don't take my undying love for Mr. Puzzles into consideration! 

I couldn't help but leave you a tip, It may not be much but I hope you can get yourself a well deserved nice coffee and a pat on your own shoulder <3

Thank you for making this game Elis! You and this story further inspired me to keep chasing my dreams and keep working on my projects and practice art :) I'm surely gonna make some fanart of this very game later this week when I've got some time. 

Kudos!

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I dont usually write comments, but oh my goodness, you can legit FEEL the quality in this and just the amount of passion put into this, I can also feel how bad the devs of this needed this guy carnally, 10/10 highkey I felt like the peter griffin crying and clapping gif at the true end

Not even an SMG4 fan, hell, I might even get into it now...great game.

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i love your style!

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YOO, Great Game! Malaysian Youtuber Here! I Manage to get 2 out of 3 Major Ending on my playthrough. And you must say, what an elegant Suprise ~~. Great Visual Novel!

Feels free to watch as sometimes I do speak English too! Hehe
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This is one of the best visual novels I played, thank you so much

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tengo realice la fans traduccion para español y android  dejo el link, en mi discord hay mas! (mi perfil)
https://github.com/PRISIONER0?tab=repositories

MUCHAS GRAX!!! Me encantó tu traducción y gracias por ponerlo para android, y todos los demás juegos que ya han traducido/adaptado para android :D 

El único problema es que hay un error en el que no se muestra signos como por ejemplo: ¡ no sé si hay otros que no se muestran 

Igualmente no es nada que arruine la traducción ni moleste, aprecio mucho su trabajo y de nuevo gracias <333

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I never watched SMG4, but I've known Elis as an artist for almost a decade (it's crazy). Knowing her, yumeship game was just a matter of time haha.

Jokes aside, this game might have made me enjoy Visual Novels again. A DATING SIM VISUAL NOVEL AS WELL... That was almost impossible for me unless it had a silly twist or I watched somebody who cannot take it seriously. But... I was indeed seriously invested. Your art does bring such life to the characters and the expressions are top notch, which makes the game feel quite refreshing to me.

While there are some things worth fixing (like stream flickering when on fullscreen, voices setting being pointless - tho I bet it's just something from original software not turned off, I think I saw somebody mention some writting issues like - not being consistent with "you" and "I" usage.), I would highly recommend to people who enjoy VN or even SMG4 (tho I probably don't know anybody outside of your server haha).

Elis, this is for you... Thank you for not giving this project up. I bet that with your school graduation, it must have been pretty tough to make it work, yet... Here we are. If I remember correct, this took you 10 months? Maybe even a year, but that is absolutely great accomplishment for your very first game which can actually get people to play it up to 5 hours. Be proud of what you did and maybe we might see you with another project of similar type soon. You know that your fans like your work and will support you when needed.

And also thank you... For probably bringing back a spark for my own projects. It has been ages since I felt like I should work on them more.

I wish I can play but I'm broke 😔😔😔💔💔💔

Also don't have a PC (I'm depressed now 😰😰😰😔😔😔💔💔💔😞😞😞😞😢😢😢😢🥑)

Nice game but how do i get to the voice acted scene?

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Played it today and got one of the major endings. The whole thing was amazing! I loved the animated parts, the characters, and the story! And it was absolutely adorable seeing Mr Puzzles try to get closer to us. I'm looking forward to getting all the other endings and see if we actually get to officially pair up with him! Congrats on making a successful game and keep up the great work! 🤩🤩🤩

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oh my god I can’t believe you stole from SMG4 OF ALL PEOPLE

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i fear its an au of smg4 chat

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Wher is the Broswer Version?My current Laptop can't run exe files.

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I haven't played this game, but I don't know if it's good or not.

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where is Android ?? 

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This game made me love Mr Puzzles even more

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Game so good it made me sob, along with the animations being so beautiful, 10/10

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I'm so proud of you Elis, we love this so much :)

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is this the tv guy from smg4

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ye

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Yup, his name is Mr.Puzzles :)

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¿Habrá o hay  traducción al español?

Hola! Lo puedo traducir, únete a mi discord en mi perfil 

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i played this for about two hours and got 2 endings. ONE OF THEM NOT EVEN BEING A REAL ENDING! i dont know if im just dumb or... dumb but i literally caan not find the other endings to this game. please someone just comment come hints 😭 im so lost

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Listen to Linda she got something special to say

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I NEED ANDROID VERSION 😭😭😭😭😭😭

QWOWOWOWOOWOWWO MY LUCK IS CRAAAZZZYYYY

(started obsessing over mr puzzles a week ago) 

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I cried a lot on the endings... this is peak

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I played this game at like 2 in the morning, honestly one of the best Visual novels I’ve ever played. Great art, amazing characters and a Fantastic story! 11/10 would erase my memory to play again.

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Looks like someone's looking for a five-star rating, right? XD

Greet twelve people with a smile and unique greeting. Do not greet the same person more than once.

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me gusta...

Lo traduje al español para pc y android, mira mi perfil

Gracias 

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i rather adventure 3d platformer

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me gusta!

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100%'d in one sitting, which took about three, maybe four hours. This is extremely well-made. The art perfectly matches the tone, and the writing (particularly the characterization; everyone seems very distinct) feels polished. The PoV character is adorable, Puzzles is cute, and the supporting cast is charming and utilized well. 

Honestly, there's a good chance I'd recommend this to romance enjoyers entirely unfamiliar with the source material. This is GOTY to me. I ship your yumeship now.

EDIT: Upon a second pass (reading aloud with friends), I do actually have a couple quibbles. While the internal narration is almost entirely in second person ("you"), there are a few moments where it's suddenly first person ("I") and it's quite jarring every time. Also, I believe the "voice volume" setting may be bugged? No matter where I set the slider to, there aren't any voicelines, with the sole exception of the bad ending's cutscene, which is fully voiced even with that slider set to mute. I'd say these are just small technical faults in an otherwise Very Good VN, though. It's nothing a patch can't fix.

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agreed

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As someone who has never watched smg4 I have now accepted that this ship will take over the rest of my life o7

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