Press kit
- Game
- Fine Tuning: A Radio Repair Shop
- Made by
- Static Signal
- Platform
- Windows, on Steam
- Release
- Early Access, date to come
- Website
- finetuninggame.com
- Contact
- press@staticsignal.dev
What it is
Fine Tuning is a radio repair shop in a small English town in 1952. Wirelesses come in over the counter with their owners' tickets, one with a hum and another that's gone quiet, and it's your job to take each one apart at the bench, find out what's wrong and put it right before its owner comes back for it.
Every set is a working valve superhet, and the game solves its circuit as you work on it, so the meter reads what the circuit really does and what you hear comes from the same sums. There are no buttons for the work: the knobs, the probes, the soldering iron and the chassis sliding out of its cabinet are all done by hand.
Around the bench is the whole shop: the morning paper's small ads, the counter, the shelf of waiting sets, spares ordered by post, proper shop hours, a bed in the loft, and a spoilt set of your own to restore and listen to at home.
Features
- 1950s valve wirelesses whose circuits are really worked out, so the meter and the sound both tell the truth
- Faults from real parts going wrong, from dead valves and drying capacitors to dry joints and fuses blown by a short
- Everything done by hand, from the knobs and the meter's probes to the soldering iron
- A service sheet for each set, its circuit diagram linked to the chassis
- Customers booked from the morning paper's small ads, and money in pounds and pence
- Spares from the wholesaler's trade list, delivered by post and unpacked at the counter
- Proper shop hours, half-day Wednesdays and a bed in the loft
- A spoilt set of your own to restore, take home or sell from the bay window
Logo and art
- The logo, a shop's signboard1600 by 583
- The logo, see-through1280 by 720
- Header capsule920 by 430
- Main capsule1232 by 706
- Library capsule, tall600 by 900
