To Tom and Barbara, the nice life means escaping the rat race to farm of their suburban backyard and pash. To Kanye West, the nice life appears like Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, or summertime Chicago. To Deadly Premonition director Hidetaka “Swery” Suehiro, The Good Life is his subsequent recreation about rural homicide and thriller. Swery and his White Owls studio are presently attempting to crowdfund the sport, which sends an American photojournalist into an English village the place individuals can flip into animals by evening and homicide is afoot, however it’s nonetheless wanting its purpose. So final evening they launched a prototype demo so everybody can poke round.
The demo is a small one and solely a prototype, to be clear – not consultant of the sport they hope to complete. It lets us potter across the village and tackle three quests to snap images: of a drunken vicar, two individuals assembly in secret, and a truck roving across the village. That’s the complete gamut of village life proper there.
If you’re , download it here and verify this document for assist. Or simply watch Swery himself play:
The Good Life is presently searching for funding on Kickstarter. With eight days nonetheless to go, solely round £241,000 of the £446ok purpose has been pledged – and it must get all of it, or it’ll get nothing. The first Kickstarter, final 12 months, fell by means of so I do hope it makes it this time. As janky as Deadly Premonition is, it’s one in every of my very favorite video games, with a lot extra heat and playfulness than I’d anticipate in survival horror.
White Owls have vowed to seek out funding for The Good Life a method or one other if this does fall by means of.
Our boy Brendy just lately talked to Swery, asking the massive questions:
RPS: I’ve a cat, and she or he bites my girlfriend on a regular basis, which makes my girlfriend shout. As an authorized Buddhist priest, are you able to give me some religious recommendation to cope with this conflict of personalities in my family?
Swery: If you begin excited about the best way to management and manipulate issues apart from your self (your girlfriend, your folks, your loved ones, your co-workers, your boss, your subordinates, your pets, vermin, and many others.) I’m optimistic that your life will worsen. How about attempting to simply settle for them as they’re? In the top, you may solely management your self.
How about that, Brendan?
