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Swery Would Really Love It if Someone Would Help Fund His New Game

Deadly Premonition director in search of a publisher for his next project.

Awesome Japanese game designing insane person Swery65 is obviously a favorite industry personality among the Giant Bomb staff. Between the magical experience the dual Endurance Run teams each had playing through his decidedly wonky survival horror game, Deadly Premonition, and the euphorically loopy interview we conducted with the man during this past GDC, it's safe to say that we're pretty smitten with the guy and his lovably bonkers antics.

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To be perfectly honest, Deadly Premonition was only accidentally amazing. As much as I would love to see what SWERY could come up with next, I'm afraid that lighting won't strike twice and anything else for the man would just be all the way bad.

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I would pay an advance 60 dollars right now for a Swery game, even though it doesn't exist yet.

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with the man this during this past GDC


nice typo
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God dammit, Swery is the most adorable fucking game developer. Is this what those weird guys at the comic shop mean by "moe?"

Come on, some one give him some money!

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@Max_Hydrogen said:

I would pay him NOT to make another game like Deadly Premonitions.

But is it OK if he makes another game like Deadly Premonition?
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Cyber-hug to Swery. Hopefully the search goes well for him.

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We've not had an Endurance Run for ages, so i'll sub SWERY a few quid for Deadly Premonition 2!

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@Daftasabat said:

We've not had an Endurance Run for ages, so i'll sub SWERY a few quid for Deadly Premonition 2!

that's not really how it works...

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Kickstarter! I got five on it.

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How about Double Fine makes Deadly Premonition 2?

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okay, that was a pretty fast correction

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@Arrested_Developer said:

How about Double Fine makes Deadly Premonition 2?

DUDE YES!

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Deadly Premonition may have been a weirdly compelling, abstract piece of art, but it sure as hell was not a good (or even decent) game and the wrong turns the design team took certainly had nothing to do with its budget. Therefore I'm not convinced he could make a game I'd actually want to play regardless of funding and I definitely don't want my money to play a part in his doing.

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@Arrested_Developer: That won't do. Double Fine will be busy on Night Trap 2, remember?
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I wish Swery and co. would develop a PSN/XBLA title. Digital distribution seems to be more suitable for games with that team's brand of... weirdness.

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@DonutFever said:

@Max_Hydrogen said:

I would pay him NOT to make another game like Deadly Premonitions.

But is it OK if he makes another game like Deadly Premonition?

Nope.

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@BenderUnit22 said:
Deadly Premonition may have been a weirdly compelling, abstract piece of art, but it sure as hell was not a good (or even decent) game and the wrong turns the design team took certainly had nothing to do with its budget. Therefore I'm not convinced he could make a game I'd actually want to play regardless of funding and I definitely don't want my money to play a part in his doing.
if Hideo Kojima can keep fooling people into letting him develop games, surely Swery can, too
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The time will come when Alex Navarro eventually finds everything adora-cuddly, cutesy-wutesy, and fuzzy-cozy.
 
I predict sometime next decade he will re-review The Human Centipede, and do so only using Care Bears imagery.
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@Lifestrike said:

The time will come when Alex Navarro eventually finds everything adora-cuddly, cutesy-wutesy, and fuzzy-cozy.

I predict sometime next decade he will re-review The Human Centipede, and do so only using Care Bears imagery.

except dogs

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I think this guy could be a financially successful every time if he was pitching like $15 PSN/XBLA titles rather than something that needed to be pressed to a disc and had a budget that reflected it..

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Kickstarter

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What I want to know is, what happened to all the weird guys before Suda51 and between him and Swery65?

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This was a fun read. I hope Swery and Access Games find a publisher soon, hopefully one that can give them a respectable budget, then again, the distinctly low-budget feel of Deadly Premonition is part of its charm.

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He should make a paypal donation page, i'll send him 5$

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MUST... HELP...SWERY..!!!!

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@BenderUnit22 said:

Deadly Premonition may have been a weirdly compelling, abstract piece of art, but it sure as hell was not a good (or even decent) game and the wrong turns the design team took certainly had nothing to do with its budget. Therefore I'm not convinced he could make a game I'd actually want to play regardless of funding and I definitely don't want my money to play a part in his doing.

In a perfect world, he would be a high concept / story guy, and someone else would design gameplay.

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I was under the impression Deadly Premonition actually sold quite well, considering it was a budget game with no marketing whatsoever that no one heard of until it arrived on store shelves (well, except those handful of people who remembered that TGS trailer). I remember it being in the top 10 on Amazon for a bit there. Remarkable feat for such a small game.

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Sorry, Swery. Apparently you have to promise to spend 14 years developing your next game or have a gun in it named after your genitals that talks about dicks all the time, in order to get funding in this industry, now.

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Dear SWERY, enclosed within is all of my money. Please make another game.

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jeff, ryan, vinny and brad should have another marathon endurance run to raise funds ala Super Mario Marathon

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if he takes public funding we could all get credit and then have our own giant bomb wiki page

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@Kraznor: Judging on the quality of the game I'm surprised it sold any.I thought it was very broken and needed ALOT of work.But I felt that the guy who had the idea to do this crazy game had alot of potentional to make something great if he learned from his mistakes.I thought the concept and mechanic ideas were great they were just implemented in the game rather...........yeah.But if he says he will work hard I am all for this.I hope it is greenlit.
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if he gets this made, at least i'll have another endurance run to watch.

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Kickstarter was made for shit like this.
 
Get Swery on that shit, he'll have a few hundred thousand bucks in no time at all!

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How about if I agree to go ahead and pre-order now.  Yes Deadly Premonition had a few problems but I swear I loved playing that game.  

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Someone really needs to setup a Kickstarter for Swery. mc chris has raised $59,000 to make a cartoon. I'm sure Swery could raise some start up money for his new project.

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lets all pitch in guys!

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Everyone send him five bucks.

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First I've heard of this Kickstarter stuff, but I'd donate to Swery's next project. 
It's disappointing to hear they haven't even started on a new game. I was under the impression it was underway.

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@Kraznor said:

I was under the impression Deadly Premonition actually sold quite well, considering it was a budget game with no marketing whatsoever that no one heard of until it arrived on store shelves (well, except those handful of people who remembered that TGS trailer). I remember it being in the top 10 on Amazon for a bit there. Remarkable feat for such a small game.

This.

From the interviews I've read, Swery wasn't actually given a huge budget to work with on DP, and yet somehow did quite a lot with very little. Maybe a game within the downloadable space could be an avenue he might take?

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I can only hope that his next project comes out on PS3!  Although if it's anything like DP, I'd much rather watch it in some sort of extended playthrough on a videogame site :P

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English PS3 release, for all that is holy!

I had to borrow a 360 and I bought the game brand new (you're welcome, Swery!) and played it for a week straight. It. Was. Amazing.... Great... Amazing... Yes...

I would gladly eat a sinner's sandwich to account for any wrongs PS3 folk gave Mr. Swery!

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Where can I donate?

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So Shane doesn't have his back anyway or what? He sounded so enthusiastic about the guy's next project...

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give me a paypal account swery, i'll sort you out.

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I believe in you Swery65!

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Pre-order New Untitled Swery Project!

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Only if it releases on PS3 in the US also not just japan.