Games journalist and professional Francois Truffaut imitator Tom Francis is making the bold leap from critic to creator with Gunpoint, a heist game without procedurally generated cities but with projectile trousers and rewired security systems that cause light switches to activate doors which then clobber people in the face. This new video is the first to show the new visuals in action and it’s also an in-depth guide to how the game will play. Tom’s hoping to release by Christmas and is considering attaching a price tag. In the video he asks whether people would consider parting with cash, to which I respond by drawing your attention to the existence of a mission called Defenestrator.

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