Watch it burn

Controlling your creations is currently a little too clumsy (something Schneider assures us he’s working on), but that frustration can also be a source of comedy. An early experiment with thrusters has us howling as our vehicle launches directly into the sea, while repeated attempts to cross a narrow destructible bridge are like one of those drawn-out jokes that starts funny, becomes tedious, and eventually pivots back to hilarious. Instruments Of Destruction is seemingly designed for playing to an audience, and Schneider is ready to take advantage of that. “I just need to get it into streamers’ hands,” he says. “If you watch someone play the game, you don’t necessarily think, ‘Oh, I’ve seen it all’ – you want to get in there and make your own thing with it.”