Comments on: Seven Examples of Gunpoint’s Great Design Choices (That Have Nothing to do With Gameplay)

By: Mastermind

Mastermind — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 12:15:43 +0000

Awesome game. Its just wayy too short. Should be like 300 levels with 5 bosses.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:25:57 +0000

Another thing I noticed as I went to play through it again on my Steam copy: once you’ve completed the game, you can replay earlier missions with all the gadgets you’ve bought. Playing the early missions as essentially a superhero, you can really blast through them. Not exactly fair to the guards, but kicking all the doors down as a shortcut through the levels is fun!

By: phuzz

phuzz — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 14:18:00 +0000

The part I’ve really liked (and I was up until midnight playing last night, cheers Tom), is that while a lot of games let you play in a style you like, eg stealth, killy etc. (such as in Deus Ex or Dishonoured), there’s generally only an incentive to play in one particular way. In Gunpoint, different mission givers want different things, one wants no living witnesses, so you have to work out how to kill every guard. another wants no violence, so you have to work out how to get round ever guard without punching them.
It’s a neat solution to the player just finding one style they like and sticking to it (although you tottaly can, you just won’t get max cash).

By: H

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 11:45:57 +0000

Just bought it. Cheers to you both.

By: Tom Francis

Tom Francis — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 07:26:37 +0000

Wow, thanks man! Yep, all of these were intentional, I’m glad they went down well!

I did originally let you pounce us in the dev commentary, but it got annoying really fast: the commentary generally lasts longer than the level, so I find myself absent-mindedly jumping around, and if the commentary stops every time I accidentally jump into a developer I have to just sort of stop and twiddle my thumbs.

You can still shoot us with guns though.