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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2010: The Year In Forty Photos
You probably don’t want to hear about my year, particularly since it was good. So I’ll do what I did in 2009 and just pick some shots from it, and a track to listen to while you browse.
I invented a board game for my family to capture the basic mechanics of the amazing but single-player only Flash game Dice Wars. It had some kinks.
Rich’s housewarming. He has a trapdoor in his kitchen that leads to an underground well.
I made cookies for my family at easter, each customised to our esoteric tastes.
Ceramic.
My cheese and rosemary bread – best eaten while it’s still this hot.
Exhausted in an especially hectic New York City, I’m happy to find Max Brenner The Chocolate Man still exists, and is still an oasis of warmth and butterfat.
For our pseudo-anniversary, we fed Kim’s fixation with fish at the aquarium, and my fixation with steak at Hawksmoor.
Hawksmoor’s sticky toffee pudding.
I now own a barbecue, the final artefact I needed to complete my triforce of manhood.
Our old friend Al was back from New Zealand for a while, so Rich, he and I got together for a fajitas and margaritas night. We got through about a third of the Cuervo in margaritas before I passed out and Rich violated his vegetarianism. Welcome back Al!
It made us think.
30s party for my Gran’s birthday. Anna, me, and Kim.
Vancouver work trip.
Seafood with Relic. That’s Dan Kading, designer of Dawn of War 2: Retribution.
Halloween.
Christmas. Anna and I are transfixed by our dad connecting a battery and a magnetised screw so that it spins phenomenally fast.
These last few might look familiar.
