TOM FRANCIS
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Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a game designer, writer, and programmer on Gunpoint, Heat Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here are the videos I make on YouTube, and here are two short stories I wrote for the Machine of Death collections.
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The Middleman
A few good ways to win me over, if you’re thinking of making a TV show with just me in mind:
– Female protagonist I don’t hate. Wendy Watson hereby joins the other… three.
– A character who doesn’t take half a fucking hour to get over every surprising turn of events. Writers! The stuff you’re writing didn’t really happen, so watching your characters refuse to believe it happened is not actually terribly entertaining for us!
– Conversely, disbelief at just how idiotic your plot is makes them highly entertaining.
– Max Payne references.
– Scenes where a character starts to say something about what we’re seeing, then thinks better of it.
– Ultra-mild curse words, ideally accompanied by a character who actually does swear her face off at the appropriate times. Somehow that makes the gosh-darnits seem extra mild.
– Ending an episode with a Russian Futurists song. This one was laser targeted at me.