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43: A Window Into Narrative Systems with Tom Francis

Apr 24, 2020

Tom Francis (Gunpoint, Heat Signature) crashes in to discuss his upcoming small-scale strategy game Tactical Breach Wizards, how he finds and focuses on the cores of his games, and the narrative systems that make them sing.

Some things we discussed:

Tom Francis

Gunpoint

Heat Sig

Tactical Breach Wizards (new walkthrough)

RPS: What Works And Why

Morphblade

Imbroglio

GameMaker

Into the Breach

The GIPF Project

Dawn of War: Dark Crusade

Dishonored

Brick

Design Talk: Difficulty is Random