News Tycoon Game
Play at being Ed: build your newspaper with articles, weather, recipes, gossip, travel news, and more. Sell ads - or not. Obtain readers - or not. Compete with other paper editors for look, feel, awards, etc. Try to stop your journalists from getting drunk/ banged up. Send out your paparazzi and manage their horrific expense accounts and scoops. Build up your front page and watch it come alive with REAL news, articles and travel information! Do lunch with other players in the news canteen online, poach each others' star talent, beccome the greatest - or worst - Ed of all time.
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Might be a fun way to:
- Play at being a News Editor
- Learn basic economics of running a zine
- Learn basic economics of running accounts and managing talent
- Learn basics of 'self publishing'
- Add in user-generated content and the ability to publish your paper: you build your own (live!) personal zine site (public)
- Break potential feeling of wasting time while playing games (for those puritans out there)
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