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How to steal from a giant spaceship

Heat Signature is fantastic at telling unauthored, emergent stories. Here’s a cool video all about its procedural generation of characters:

And here’s a personal anecdote, generated entirely by a combination of the game, my actions and circumstance: (more…)

By Simon Jones, 8 yearsOctober 19, 2017 ago
Games

First 5 Minutes: Heat Signature

It’s video time! Actually, it was video time back in September, but I’m useless at remembering to post on this blog. So much for working in marketing.

By Simon Jones, 8 yearsOctober 16, 2017 ago
Games

Thoughts on the Heat Signature alpha

On Sunday I discovered that I had access to the Heat Signature alpha, due to owning a particular version of Gunpoint, Tom Francis’ previous game. I’d seen him talk about the alpha but hadn’t realised I qualified. Typically, it was the last day of the 2-week access. The above video is Read more…

By Simon Jones, 10 years ago
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