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Swery’s bloody gambling in Death Game Hotel won’t be his only multiplayer game, he saysAll my games are ‘eternally unfinished’
All my games are ‘eternally unfinished’
Image credit:White Owls
Image credit:White Owls
“In the future,” said Swery, “I would like to leverage this experience to challenge myself with something new in the online multiplayer realm (something you probably haven’t even imagined yet).”
It’s just a tease. He didn’t say much more about future plans in our chat. We do know Swery is already working with Goichi Suda (aka Suda51) on a totally different deadly guesthouse -Hotel Barcelona. But whatever multiplayer mayhem is marinating in Swery’s head, it isn’t related to that.
Death Game Hotel l Official Trailer l Meta QuestWatch on YouTube
Death Game Hotel l Official Trailer l Meta Quest
For now, Swery is mostly keen to get players into the lobbies of the studio’s VR gambling den, where each player has a goblet full of blood in front of them, into which they must drop their increasingly unhinged bets. He said the idea for a mortal multiplayer table game came during the Covid-19 pandemic, when workers at the studio started hanging out in VR to discuss work.
“During the ‘Stay Home’ phase, when we couldn’t leave our homes or meet friends and colleagues, we at White Owls distributed VR headsets to all employees and held game meetings in VR,” he said. “This experience led to the idea of creating a place where people could gather and connect, which heavily inspired this project.”
This’ll be Swery’s 17th published game (at least according tohis wiki), not surprising for someone who’s been making video games since the 1990s, sometimes to a mixed reception. The lead developer of cult favouriteDeadly Premonitionand cosy village cat-person simulatorThe Good Life, communicated that he was satisfied with his studio’s previous works. Even if the nature of making art means there’s always something left undone.
“As a game creator, I believe all the works I’ve created are ‘eternally unfinished’ yet considered ‘as complete as they’ll ever be.'”
Image credit:White Owls
When I asked if he had any advice to give to younger developers, he dispensed with any flowery talk and put it to me straight: know what you’re making.
Swery is alsoa fully certified Buddhist monk who gives excellent appraisal of felines, having previously given me some good advice on my cat’s behaviour. When I told the studio head and fellow cat enjoyer I no longer lived with my precious moggy due to a breakup (sniff), he knew which tone to adopt.
“Everyone has different approaches to healing from the loss of a relationship with a beloved cat,” he said. “Getting another cat (preferably a newborn kitten), reading cat blogs daily, finding another girlfriend who has a cat, or chatting with an AI pretending to be a cat – all could be some good options.
Death Game Hotel is for saleon the Meta storeif you’re Oculus’d up. The developer also points out there’sa Discord serverwhere staff at the studio arrange to play games, sometimes involving Swery too.
