The Official TVGS Guide
Please take the time to read the helpful guides to help you be more familiar with the site. We try our best to provide detailed information to avoid confusion, but always ask for assistance from community members for extra help! This guide is subject to change without notice and could be outdated due to site updates.
Welcome to TV Game Studio! Please make sure to reading the Getting Started section of the guide FIRST. Make sure your account is activated by email verification. Make sure to check your email and the spam/junk folder. You will not be about to play the blog game without confirming your email. If the email did not work at all and need assistance, please contact an admin as soon as possible. We ask to give us at least 24 – 48 hours to respond. The following steps are recommended to get you started on the essentials before exploring the community.
- Upload your avatar.
- We offer an avatar maker here. Alternatively, you can upload any mage as an avatar (no sexual content!)
- Introduce yourself in our blog game here.
What is TV Game Studio?
TV Game Studio is a reality game and social network for all the Big Brother, Survivor, and Reality Game fans to connect and role play as a host or player. We offer a diverse experience of user blogging, group pages with forums and comment ratings. We are a proud sister site to Tengaged and Zwooper
What is the Age Requirement to Play?
All users with an account must be at least 13 years or older. Users between the age of 13 and 17 should have a parent/guardian consent before playing. TVGS is a fun social interactive community to role play with many different people around the role. We are strict community guidelines for users over the age of 18 years old to protect our minors in our community. This community is committed to safety and fun entertainment.
How Much Does It Cost to Play?
It cost nothing to create an account or play on the site. Everything from virtual points (Karma, Blog Points, and XP) are earned from social activity, hosting successful games, and being finalists in games. You cannot purchase any points even if you wanted to.
What Are The Prizes?
| POS | Group Games | Official TVGS Games |
| HOST | 200 Karma + 500 XP | 400 Karma + 1000 XP* |
 | 150 Karma + 200 XP | 350 Karma + 1000 XP |
 | 100 Karma + 150 XP | 250 Karma + 750 XP |
 | 80 Karma + 100 XP | 150 Karma + 500 XP |
| 4 | 60 Karma + 75 XP | 100 Karma + 250 XP |
| 5 | 50 Karma + 50 XP | 80 Karma + 150 XP |
| 6 | 40 Karma + 25 XP | 60 Karma + 100 XP |
| 7 | 30 Karma | 50 Karma + 75 XP |
| 8 | 20 Karma | 40 Karma + 50 XP |
| 9 | 10 Karma | 30 Karma + 25 XP |
Notes:
Group Games: These games are hosted by community users hosted on TVGS. Hosts will earn the full prize for a successful group game. Any co-hosts will earn half of the prize (100 Karma + 250 XP). Users can host and play as many group games if desired. Users earn XP by being active in the forum chats!
Official TVGS Games: These games are hosted by the admins or game coordinators occasionally throughout the year. All hosts will earn the Karma prize from group games. The listed amount (400 Karma + 1000XP) is the budget for community games to reward users not in the official game to earn special prizes!
How Can I support the Project?
You can support us in many ways (which are FREE) or any contribution.
- You can disable adblocking on our site. We get most of our funding to keep the site alive through ad revenue. We put ads at the bottom of most pages so they will be less annoying. When you are using the site as normal, you are helping us so much!
- Invite your friends and spread the word!
- Every time you prove you are human, it supports our site. Fighting bots and supporting human creators!
- Make a small contribution by clicking the button.
Introduction
This guide serves the purpose to make blogging on TV Game Studio easier. If you have your own WordPress site you are already at an advantage. If it is your first time, we encourage you to keep reading. If you have any further questions or suggestions to make this guide better, create a forum topic here.
Getting Started
(WIP)
Step 1: Understand the Blog Editor
The WordPress Blog editor is highly advanced, but easy to use once you get familiar with the features. Make sure to access the Blogs Page and click “Add Blog”. You will be directed to the Blog Editor that should look like this:
You will notice on the left side you have the option to add your own title to make your blog post unique. A section below it to add different blocks to add images or begin writing your blog post. On the right side, you will see the blog settings. If you do not see the blog settings, click on the setting icon which should look like this:
You can click on the blog setting icon to close the settings at any time if it distracts you from writing your blog. The following is the full options of the Blog Settings so you can understand the purpose of each based on the number assigned which should look like this:
(1) Status & Visibility: This section is the most important with publishing your blog. You have the option to set your blog to be public (highly recommended), private (no point using this), password protected (if you only want certain users to have access to this). You are given the option to schedule when you want your blog live! You may publish immediately (default) or you can decide which date and exact time! Always keep your post set to standard and never check “pending review”.
(2) Categories: This section you must decide which your blog relates to. Never check ADM announcements (admin use only). You may lose Blog Points or get blocked from the site.
(3) Tags: This section you can treat this like hashtags whenever users want to search the site for blogs.
(4) Featured Image: This option allows you to add an image to be displayed on the blog page and on top of your actual blog post.
(5) Excerpt: This section is basically the option to write a short summary for users to understand what your blog is about.
(6) Discussion: This provides the option to close comments on your blog. We highly recommend you keep this open.
(7) Post Attributes: Please do not change this setting.
Use Ctrl + f to search for the Mini game name for the help information. Due to the nature of being a community of Group Games, you must screenshot your score to your game host directly. There is no save option. Make sure to select YES on “Group Challenge?”. This will allow the option to input your username, the date (TVGS time), and time to prevent cheating and reusing scores.
Math Survival Help
The Game has 4 basic elements
- Health
- Food
- Crates
- Time
- Screenshot (for group games)
Health
Your health is the most crucial element of the mini-game. Once your health reaches 0. You will faint and the challenge is over. You can screenshot your score to your host if you are happy, but you can retry if you faint too early. You must search for food when your health gets too low.
Food
The production team provided apple crates in the grassy fields for you to consume. Each crate increases your health by +25. Too not overeat at once because you can waste food if you are below 75 health. A general rule is to eat a couple crates when your health is below 40.
Crates
Crates contain math problems for you to answer. There are over 80 crates! You will not answer them all! Just a general rule, each digit rewards 1 point. You may want to answer bigger numbers which you can double or triple your score! However, every time you answer a crate wrong you will lose 1 point. Constant guessing may hurt your score. Once you answer correctly, you will hear the audience clapping from their TV and the crates will disappear. Some crates are used to block an essential path!
Time
You are given only 5 minutes (300 seconds). Every 1.5 seconds you are rewarded 1 points for survival effort. If you manage to survive the entire time. You will get up to +200 bonus to your score!
