Heat Signature is next game from Gunpoint creator

Gunpoint creator Tom Francis has released a prototype video for his next project, Heat Signature, a stealth game set in space.

Ozzie Mejia

February 3, 2014 3:30 PM

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Gunpoint creator Tom Francis is currently working on his next project, a 2D stealth adventure set in space called Heat Signature. Francis posted a 14-minute video demonstrating the current prototype, showing the game's flight mechanics and top-down stealth action.

The premise of Heat Signature is to fly a ship (currently the size of a few pixels) and sneak up on other randomly generated ships of varying sizes before safely boarding them. Enemy ships all come with heat sensors, requiring players to cool down their engine and alter their trajectory, in order to avoid detection and invade a ship via its airlock. Upon landing, the game shifts to a top-down view, where players must take out the crew before disembarking and repeating the process with the next ship.

Let Tom Francis walk you through the early version of his upcoming new game by watching the video below. For more about Heat Signature, check out Francis's website.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?