Dev of one of our favorite strategy games of the year says he's unbelievably lucky to be in his position

Tactical Breach Wizards screenshot showing a woman with tied-back white hair shooting down a man in a camo-style robe, causing him to fall backward and drop his rifle
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It's a tough time for pretty much everyo🦄ne in the games industry right now, and for the developer of one of 2024's best indie titles, he's grateful for the position he's in despite some of the hardships he's faced surroundiꦡng its release.

If you haven't checked it out, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Tactical Breach Wizards is one of this year's best indie gems; a turn-based strategy puzzler where you clear various levels with what is essentially a wizard SWAT team. For developer Tom Francis, the game's success this year has put him in a position that many other dev🍒elopers haven't been so lucky to find, and he hasn't shied away from acknowledging it. 

uploaded to his YouTube channel. "I see all the job losses and the failures and the hardships around me, and you just feel ridiculous for having any k🦂ind of issues going on."

Despite𓃲 the success of Tactical Breach Wizards, Francis is open about some of the struggles he's faced in the time since the game's launch. "There's always a lot of mental distortion around launch," he explains. "a lot of extra stress and tension leading up to it. Things get distorted and seem bigger than they are, and then afterwards sometimes a numbness."

The stress surrounding Tactical Breach Wizards' launch 🌼is something that Francis has struggled to get over, stating that in comparison to other game launches, he's "never had to take this ๊long to recover from anything."

Francis remains jovial, however, and is keen to make it clear that he's "not in a bad place", joking that part of his stress comes from the fact that he's well aware of how lucky he is❀ to be in his position and career, but is unable to enjoy it fully, "Feeling like I'm not enjoying it enough is stressful in itself and I'm trying to snap out of that", he chuckles. 

Not content to rest on his laurels, Franci𝕴s also discusses his potential ideas for his next game, with one potential idea being an information-driven Outer Wilds-like game, something that we're already very excited about, just as long as he gets some well-deserved R&R before he gets started on it.

You'll find Tactical Breach Wizards alongside some other gems in our 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best strategy games list. 

Alex Raisbeck
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Alex has written all sorts of thꦡings for websites including VideoGamer, PCGamer, PCGamesN and more. He'll play anything from Tekken to Team Fortress 2, but you'll typically find him failing to churn through his backlog because he🍷's too busy playing whatever weird and wonderful indie games have just come out.