LIVE STUDIO AUDIENCE
My friends and I love TV shows. To the point where we could probably come up with better shows than the ones actually on TV. We can’t pitch to any studios, so we made this card game instead.
A GAME FOR TV LOVERS AND HATERS ALIKE
Live Studio Audience is a game in the league of SuperFight, Cards Against Humanity, and JackBox Games.
In Live Studio Audience, everyone comes up with their own TV show right on the spot. Make your friends laugh, cry, or gasp with completely original pitches. No two shows are ever the same.
Players will express their creativity by improvising wild storylines all while making each other laugh. The trope and plot points guarantee a strange show while the network notes add unpredictable twists.
Here’s how it goes:
Each round, all players will draw random cards from 3 decks: Troupes, Plot Points, and Network Notes. With these, they have to create a completely original show by incorporating the cards they have drawn. Each round, players vote for their favorite episode by awarding Emmys. At the end of the game, whoever has the most Emmys wins!
Just like how everyone likes a different kind of show, we made 3 different ways to play.
PITCH MEETING:
For Pitch Meeting, each round everyone pitches a new TV show. One player acts as the "Studio Executive" while the other players draw 2 plot points and 3 tropes. Players then discard their least favorite plot point and trope. Going around the table, each player must draw a Network Note and then use their cards to pitch a title, cast, and plot. The Executive awards the Emmy to their favorite show, the winner of the Emmy then becomes the Executive in next round.
The first person with 3 Emmys wins!
SHOWRUNNER:
In Showrunner play, everyone creates their own TV show based on what they draw from the Tropes and Plot Point deck. The first round involves everyone pitching a title, a main character, and their main plot. At the end of that round, everyone will give an Emmy to the show they found most entertaining.
In the following rounds, everyone continues the development of their individual shows, voting on their favorite episode of that round. Players will draw new tropes and plot points to incorporate into their show.
At the end of 5 rounds, whoever has the most Emmys wins!
WRITERS ROOM:
Writer’s Room play is similar to Showrunner play except once a favorite show pitch is chosen in the first round, everyone is playing off that same show the whole game.
Each round everyone will draw troupe and plot points cards and use them to pitch each new episode of the show. The favorite episode of the round becomes the next episode of the communal fake TV series.
At the end of 5 rounds, whoever has the most Emmys wins!