Plus there’s a certain kind of power that a stealth game evokes better than other games. Like that feeling you get as you peer down at a guard below you who’s oblivious to your presence. You hold his life in your hands, and he doesn’t even know you’re there.

I think you should submit your game to Steam Greenlight ( http://steamcommunity.com/greenlight ), they take WiP and even concept games, it’s all about community support, and I think your game has a ton of support. Check it out :P

I wonder if Blacklist will manage to recapture the magic formula although it does not look promising when the route advertised at E3 involves lots of attention and optimal shootings-to-the-face mechanics.

I think one of the things that makes stealth games more interesting is actually kind of the opposite of what you described in the video though – they’re very high danger situations, but a lot of them allow you to fuck up and LIVE, if you’re clever enough. In action games if you fuck up, you just die and quickload. In stealth games you get seen, but instead of just having to reload your game you run off and hide and hope they don’t find you. It gives a much better sense of continuity to the gameplay because you never get pulled out of the game by a magic time warp back to your last checkpoint (unless you REALLY screw up). In games like Hitman, while perfect Silent Assassin clears are nice, it’s a lot more fun to me to aim for perfect, but roll with the punches and keep going if I mess up, instead of just automatically quickloading to get that “perfect” score.