Sometimes an in-joke is simply too good to not share. Tom Francis (of Gunpoint and Heat Signature fame) is taking part in round with some new ideas for his subsequent sport. One of them, Tactical Breach Wizards, is a operating joke from his days as PC Gamer turned actual.
Four modern-day mages with kevlar-lined robes and scoped tactical wands, combating city crime one room at a time in XCOM impressed turn-based fight. What’s to not like?
Right now, only some items of idea artwork and tough gameplay outlines exist, all of which you can see on Tom’s blog here. You owe it to your self to no less than take a look at the proposed talents of the 4 character lessons. If you don’t no less than get a smirk out of the Tier One Pyromancer’s spell checklist, I don’t need to know you.
The fight as described within the pitch is already fairly distinct from XCOM, with a concentrate on deliberate and triggered breach-and-clear ways not solely not like Frozen Synapse, minus the guesswork due to alternating (reasonably than simultaneous) turns. Also curiously, you’d be working via a constructing one room at a time, reasonably than splitting your group and exploring a large complicated the place enemies might be hiding round each nook.
As together with his earlier two video games, there’s additionally a minor preoccupation with defenestration, with each the Elemental Sharpshooter and Close Quarters Battlewitch seeming designed particularly to knock individuals out home windows in spectacular style. I’m wondering if that’ll turn into a operating theme in all of his video games?
I can see this working fairly nicely, particularly if the skills you get to play with are simply esoteric sufficient to really feel correctly magical, regardless of the militarized police aesthetic. There’s no promise that Tactical Breach Wizards will ever be a completed sport, however the idea and artwork was too good to not share, and Tom is letting individuals signal as much as his mailing checklist to get entry to early prototype builds as they roll out.
Disclosure: Tom Francis has simply began writing a column for us.
