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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Risk Of Rain: The Huntress Dies A Subtle Death
Made another video with the Huntress in Risk of Rain, this time with audible audio. She’s awesome.
Playing Risk Of Rain: The Engineer And The Shitty Lantern
Here’s what Risk of Rain is like. It’s a randomised shooter thingy, and here I’m playing as one of the classes you unlock later on, the Engineer. More thoughts on why it’s good.
Risk Of Rain
Risk of Rain is kind of an action Roguelike: no saving, death means starting from scratch, and it’s all about combat. You’ve got four skills in an RPG-like hotbar, with RPG-like cooldowns, but it feels more like a shooter. You pump out damage rapidly and accurately, and you’re physically dodging enemy attacks to survive.
I really didn’t like it, and almost entirely because of a weird little message on the New Game screen. Continued