Hidetaka Suehiro
Hidetaka Suehiro | |
|---|---|
| Born | April 14, 1973 |
| Nationality | Japanese |
| Other names | SWERY, Swery65 |
| Occupation(s) | Video game producer, scenario writer, game designer |
| Known for | Deadly Premonition |
Hidetaka Suehiro (末弘 秀孝, Suehiro Hidetaka), known as SWERY or Swery65, is one of the founding members of the Osaka-based game developer Access Games and works at the company as a game director, game designer and scenario writer.
After completing his degree in film and video advertising at Osaka University of Arts, he joined the game industry. Swery worked at various game companies until when he founded Access Games in January 2002. His directorial debut Spy Fiction focused on, rather than aiming the Japanese audience as the primary target, the western audience, and eventually led him to complete Deadly Premonition in 2010. The game made its way to the Guinness World Record as “the most controversial survival horror game”, and in 2011 Swery was listed as one of the fifty most influential game creators in the Western industry[by whom?].
In 2014 he has partnered with Microsoft and developed a brand new Xbox One game title called D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die, which utilizes Kinect motion sensing device. The game was selected as Next 10 games at Game Developers Conference 2013.
In 2015, he gave a lecture in Osaka and at GDC 2015 regarding physical input in video games and the Kinect device. He also opened a booth along with Access Games at Penny Arcade Expo East 2015.
In November 2015 he announced that he would be taking a health-related break from game development in order to focus on recovering from reactive hypoglycemia.[1]
Works
| Title | Platform | Release status | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Last Blade | Neo Geo MVS | Released in Japan (1997) | Scenario |
| The Last Blade 2 | Neo Geo MVS | Released in Japan (1998) | Scenario |
| Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return | PlayStation | Released in Japan and North America (1999), Europe (2000) | Designer |
| Extermination | PlayStation 2 | Released in Japan, North America and Europe (2001) | Writer/Planner |
| Spy Fiction | PlayStation 2 | Released in Japan (2003), North America and Europe (2004) | Writer/Director |
| Kidō Senshi Gundam: Senjō no Kizuna Portable | PSP | Released in Japan (2009) | Director |
| Deadly Premonition | Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows | Released in Japan, North America and Europe (2010) | Writer/Director |
| Lord of Arcana | PSP | Released in Japan (2010), North America and Europe (2011) | Designer/Co-writer |
| Lord of Apocalypse | PSP, PS Vita | Released in Japan (2012) | Designer/Co-writer |
| D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die | Xbox One, Microsoft Windows | Released in Japan, North America and Europe (2014 for Xbox One, 2015 for Microsoft Windows) | Writer/Director |