Comments on: The Suspicious Developments manifesto https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/ We're back on a default theme because comments broke on my custom one and I don't have the energy to figure out why Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:03:14 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 By: Cake & Iron » Blog Archive » Level One: The Indie Developer Start Up Kit https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-611750 Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:03:14 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-611750 […] The Suspicious Development Manifesto […]

]]> By: Nazário https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-609577 Sun, 01 Nov 2015 21:13:07 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-609577 Inspiring.
Gonna wait for your next games, Tom.

]]> By: GAME: Manifestos | benedict ng https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-594771 Sun, 12 Apr 2015 16:11:46 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-594771 […] The Suspicious Developments Manifesto by Tom Francis (Image: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Arcane Kids Manife$to (Image: 1) A 2014 Manifesto: Does The Stealth Genre Even Exists? (Image: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) Less Talk More Rock (Image: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) […]

]]> By: Emotion Theory Indie Game Dev Advice and Inspiration » Emotion Theory https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-553447 Tue, 19 Aug 2014 02:09:26 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-553447 […] notable posts he’s made are: What makes Games Good, and his company manifesto, the latter of which is something similar to what I tried to establish in the My Vision post […]

]]> By: Sweb https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-541348 Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:01:41 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-541348 Yup, best human.

]]> By: Lepper https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-538091 Sat, 28 Jun 2014 06:22:02 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-538091 Hello, just visited and thought to say hi, came through a game review, and thought since I am dev a interactive visual novel, I should see what the others are creating for their own games. So yeah, hoping to learn lots from your dev logs. :) All these pointers are helpful.

]]> By: Travis Falco https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-516920 Thu, 15 May 2014 05:23:55 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-516920 Enjoyed your game thoroughly. Really inspired by your take on a noir atmosphere. Keep up the good work.

]]> By: Bee Kay https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-516744 Wed, 14 May 2014 20:40:22 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-516744 Hey I just found this post (quite late as it turns out!) I played Gunpoint earlier this year and it was amazing! Very funny and a lot of fun cross-linking things, congratulations on an amazing project :)

]]> By: KAMAZ iz GLINI (indie developer) https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-509344 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 07:44:10 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-509344 I’m an indie developer myself, but, blya, takoi huini tut nagaradil, PIZ-DETS.

]]> By: Chepchin https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-509343 Sat, 08 Feb 2014 07:42:05 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-509343 Oi, da idi hahui so svoim manifestom, yobana.

]]> By: Violet https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-508484 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 07:36:07 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-508484 This is my first time visiting your web site. Also, you are now my hero.

]]> By: Matt https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-505964 Mon, 16 Dec 2013 13:30:11 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-505964 Excellent! I love the end of the Gunpoint demo. Its a long time since a game has made me laugh out loud several time in a row (in a good way…)

]]> By: Gunpoint | Game Gander https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-438450 Sun, 28 Jul 2013 02:15:34 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-438450 […] for those interested, the creator Tom Francis wrote a manifesto he wants to adhere to. Gunpoint comes pretty close, and it contains an excellent set of rules and […]

]]> By: KevD https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-437658 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 18:49:15 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-437658 Finally bought the game today. Love it. No, actually love it. No, don’t look at me with that half-smile, cynical look, I GENUINELY LOVE IT. You can completely see that it’s a game for gamers by a gamer. Best £7 I spent in a long time – and that includes that horrendous cut-price strip-joint in Dundee me and my mates went to.

]]> By: Vlado https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-437279 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:55:06 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-437279 This is a great exercise in getting to know yourself as a designer. I wish you success going forward and I hope Gunpoint makes a big splash.

]]> By: On Gunpoint https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436949 Fri, 14 Jun 2013 07:14:02 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436949 […] Tom Francis is what happens when the government creates a cyborg who’s express purpose is to make all regular humans come off as lazy, untalented assholes. He worked on Gunpoint for three years while maintaining a full time job as a staff writer for PC Gamer . He did all the writing, coding, gameplay conceptualization, and press related stuff himself. He’s ridiculously dedicated to making games that will form communities, and that people will support not because of trickery or fine print, but because they’re awesome. Here, see for yourself. […]

]]> By: Oh No! Video Games! - Nontent https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436554 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:23:34 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436554 […] Arcade Trans Ignorance (and acceptance) Double Fine Activates Gay Marriage Tom Francis’ Manifesto The titular Martin’s Castle Ham […]

]]> By: Weekend Confirmed 168 - The Last of Us, Shadow of the Eternals - BuzzGamers https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436540 Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:29:26 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436540 […] addresses your listener feedback before speculating on the future of consoles and discussing the manifesto from Gunpoint’s Tom Francis. Finally, the team sends you into your pre-E3 weekend with a new […]

]]> By: Indie Rock: Gunpoint and The Swapper - The Average Gamer https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436468 Thu, 06 Jun 2013 01:15:52 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436468 […] started thinking about this a lot after I read Tom Francis’ manifesto for the kind of games he’d make if Gunpoint was enough of a success to sustain him (in retrospect […]

]]> By: ExtraHype | Get Hyped: Movies, TV, Gaming, Internet and more! https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436461 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:34:14 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436461 […] As it stands, Gunpoint is a speedrunner’s delight that falls just short of perfection in its aim to stay out of the way of the player, among other things. Oh, and I highly suggest picking up the Special Edition at the very least, the […]

]]> By: Gunpoint: The Kotaku Review | Kotaku Australia https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436419 Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:00:20 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436419 […] of development diaries, and his process has welcomely transparent. He’s even posted a manifesto regarding the kinds of games he wants to make. Reading over it, it’s clear that he designed Gunpoint with each of those goals in […]

]]> By: Gustavo Chavarria https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436381 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 01:29:35 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436381 Best of luck to you! I love your manifesto, hopefully it’ll be shared by more and more developers as time moves forward.

By the way, any chance you could put gunpoint in the Vita? I don’t know how truly friendly to indies Sony is, but some indie devs have good things to say about them. Would really like to play your games on the machine.

]]> By: John Smith https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436378 Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:43:29 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436378 Great game, I love gatecrashers.

]]> By: NoteBlock https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436294 Sat, 01 Jun 2013 21:45:43 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436294 Excellent set of values. Bookmarked!

]]> By: Brendan West https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436292 Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:00:34 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436292 Thank you for this wonderful game. I still jump every time I get shot.

]]> By: Cyberis https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-436277 Sat, 01 Jun 2013 01:34:58 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-436277 I played the Gunpoint demo and I liked it. I guess I liked it enough to spend way to much to get the Exclusive edition. Why? The developer commentary and the 40 minute video on how you developed the game. I’m thinking of developing games myself and I want to know how other independent developers did it so I can too.

]]> By: kpsfoo https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-429611 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 22:22:17 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-429611 To sum it up, you want to be the next Mojang :D All the Best!

]]> By: ????????????10????? | GamerBoom.com ??? https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-289466 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:54:49 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-289466 […] one, something surprising, challenging and creative. In other words, all of the above.?Source?pentadact? ???? QQ?? ???? ??? […]

]]> By: Roy https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-283042 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:18:31 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-283042 Are you behind the Optimistic Indie twitter account? ;)

]]> By: Dan https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-281873 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 12:00:17 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-281873 Get this game into the next humble bundle!

]]> By: cookieheadjenkins https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-281220 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:04:44 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-281220 Can we put you in charge of ALL the games? Please?

]]> By: Visiting the Village: The Mode 7 Games Blog and Podcast » Blog Archive » How to Be an Indie Game Developer https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-280789 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 13:35:08 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-280789 […] My final thought on design is that you need to find your own way and express your own personality. Clarify your goals and maybe even write them down, just like Gunpoint creator Tom Francis did recently. […]

]]> By: KrimzinZV https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-280620 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 03:01:07 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-280620 Number8, bethesda have missed with oblivion and skyrim, I don’t want to power level and be forced down 1 path each lvl up, although making the game playable on normal, or in skyrim where I’m level 55+ and a dragon kills me at half health on normal, but I slaughter everything else. You need to just make ai smarter on harder difficulties, maybe hearing/seeing slightly better or just looking around more thoroughly.

]]> By: CdrJameson https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-280549 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 20:45:19 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-280549 I like the manifesto, but I think points 1,2,3,5 & 6 overlap to the point of redundancy (I want emergent gameplay!)

Thinking along those lines though I’d suggest ‘I want to complete levels by the skin of my teeth – or with style’.

]]> By: elmindreda https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-280177 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:36:05 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-280177 Very interesting post. By the third point, I was already trying to remember the name of the 2D game I’d seen that these points seemed to embody. At the end of the fourth point, I googled “Gunpoint” and discovered that it was the very same game. Now I’m looking forward to it even more.

]]> By: Christoph P. https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-280009 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:37:47 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-280009 I, as a gamer, am particularly excited that there seems to be some kind of paradigm shift in game development. So many great projects that embrace this generative quality of games are popping up lately. Interesting times ahead. Thank you!

]]> By: Jason L https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279986 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 06:31:30 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279986 Cry some more about every site on the internet. Whine, or be a grownup and use Stylish.

]]> By: Design Decisions https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279971 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:33:22 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279971 Just commenting to say thanks for searing my eyeballs. My monitor is not a piece of paper. Please use dark backgrounds and light text, not the other way around.

]]> By: startrekmike https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279872 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 22:41:09 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279872 I like where your mind is, we need more games that encourage common sense solutions to problems without stupid “gamey” elements.

One needs only look at hard-core simulations (Silent Hunter, Arma, DCS A-10C and many others) to see how applying real world logic to a game will increase it’s lifetime and playability.

]]> By: No https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279808 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 17:26:25 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279808 As a player, I disagree with 8. I hate how games are spending way too much of both their algorithmic coders making player judgements and the player’s time throwing them into some kind of mini-gauntlet to get a feel for them. Fuck all that. Let me choose ‘Expert’ mode or whatever from the start. I don’t even care for the settings that let you change it back on-the-fly. Says a lot about how much they fine-tuned the difficulties when you can just flip a switch and it auto-powers the enemies or allies up or down.

]]> By: David https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279716 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 12:33:48 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279716 This is brilliant. YOU ARE THE BEST HUMAN.

]]> By: Why Call of Duty cannot be discounted for a game despite its problems or I Love the Internet « The Big Gap https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279609 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 05:12:59 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279609 […] Read his manifesto here. […]

]]> By: Beararsed https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279539 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:59:36 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279539 Do you have some kind of demo ready?

]]> By: Paul https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279530 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:11:04 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279530 I know look up to you :)

]]> By: Groping The Elephant » The Big Tent. https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279523 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:37:03 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279523 […] and the game he’s making is rather good, so I expected to be impressed with his E3 inspired manifesto. For about ninety percent of it I was in complete agreement, however certain implied and in one […]

]]> By: Just some guy https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279513 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:45:24 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279513 Suitable for framing! The Francis Principles. Nail them on the doors of the establishment and let’s all raise our voices let them know we agree. This shit rocks.

]]> By: Dewi Morgan https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279465 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:30:29 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279465 Amen!

I am suddenly really looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

]]> By: Suspicious Developments Manifesto | Extra Future https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279461 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:26:20 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279461 […] Tom Francis: […]

]]> By: A Manifesto for Game Development « Gareth Fouche https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279449 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 19:03:43 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279449 […] The Suspicious Developments Manifesto […]

]]> By: Taylor https://www.pentadact.com/2012-06-08-suspicious-developments-manifesto/#comment-279440 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:45:50 +0000 http://www.pentadact.com/?p=4161#comment-279440 11. I want to (have) make (made) Minecraft.

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