While not an entirely action-packed game, M.U.D. TV has a lot of character, starting with the tutorial which points out an NPC named Nuck Chorris - an obvious reference to the name Chuck Norris, a pop culture icon (and for those of you who don't know Chuck Norris: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris). Chuck Norris is sometimes a metaphor for this game because you need to know your audience (the proverbial pop culture) to succeed and have high viewer ratings.

I used to play Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 when I was a kid and this game plays somewhat like it, but with more loans and less action. It's definitely a managerial simulator for the most part, but also a comedic RPG.

With tons of money at your disposal, will you trash your company image and place workers in positions that don't fit their personality and experience? Or will you devoutly check their resumes and expand your domain without irresponsible spending?

The choice is yours in this adorable little game!

Interesting attempt at a Hospital Tycoon genre game. MUD TV gives the player an avatar, and makes them run around between rooms if they want to do things. In the real world, it means your attention isn't focused where you wish it was, and having a good strategy can lose to poor base-building organization. All in all this is what hurts the game most of all to me: In other games I can dwell on one window as much as I want while I'm doing other tasks. Here, if one thing needs my constant attention, it stops me from doing anything else until I'm done.

Actor-wrangling has a pretty fun stat system, absolutely every person is interchangable in every role from acting to directing to postproduction, but stats that improve performance in some roles are actually a downside in others. There is no meaningful one-player mode: Your station is always competing with other (usually CPU-controlled) stations for viewers. Program production isn't *deep*, but it's better designed than a lot of stand-alone "make a movie" games that I've seen.

Unless you are playing as a public-supported station, the funding model is /weird/ to play. You gain no money directly from airing programs--instead, you buy contracts with advertisers for things like "within 48 hours, run this ad in 8 slots that have at least 2 million geek viewers". It's a cool idea, but the avatar control means you need to leave your station and run down to the ad station, and then you have to scramble to get the good ads before the other players do. It also means that making money is very boolean; you either hit your contracts and do well, or you whiff them and get screwed hard.

MUD TV innovates a lot and breaks a lot of genre conventions. If its changes worked, the execution is good enough that it would be genre-defining like Hospital Tycoon. However its experiments just don't seem to work for me. If you want a jump-in-and-enjoy genre game, maybe look elsewhere. If you're willing to experiment a lot, and explore the edges of the genre, give it a shot.

M.U.D TV is a game about creating your own TV channel.This is a good game without good graphics without good sounds and camera is so annoying...BUT the gameplay.I love genre named tycoon.I started up with Game dev tycoon and ended with piece of ♥♥♥♥ named Airline Tycoon 2.Gameplay tightens you very much and you play and play and play.Technology is simple-you buy shows and making your own program of TV shows.You look in what time hipsters are watching your channel and picking up shows for them there also goths,bodybuilders etc.You can create your own show write down scenario and shoot it.You can employ workers.And how are you making money on it???It's advertising.OMG how it's hard to make money on advertisement bc the guys who give you it lay down conditions like we will give u money only if 400 000 goths will see our advertisement.And it's so hard to pick time where goths watching your channel.Unough talking i can talk forever.7/10

Incredibly basic, with little to no actual control over content of the show itself. You pander to some very strangely defined audiences with shows you buy. The tutorial itself was confusing. I suggest trying to find M.A.D TV instead - the game this is essentially based off.

Horrible, Horrible, horrible, My game will not start up, plays the first scene(Before main menu)Then when it's done, BANG it closes and i am e=left where i started, on windows homescreen. FIX OR I WILL KILL MYSELF

One of the best simulation games I've played... until it crashes every time. Incredibly hard to get it running, it will only run on one of my 4 'modern' machines... and when it does run, it always crashes after a week or two in-game play... all indications are that there is a severe memory leak. Among other technical issues related to starting it up...

Which is a shame because when I finally got it running, until the inevitable crash, each game was outstanding.