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Luckily, that helps us sell games."
“We vibe really well together.
They know what sort of games that I want to make.
That’s why I work with them.
Because these are the people who know how to make a Grasshopper game.”
He’s grateful to not have “a bunch of yes men” but genuine collaborators.
Does this kind of suck?
Is this not good enough?'"
He thinks for just a moment.
“Mainly pro wrestling,” he laughs.
Rather than something definitive, it’s just something he’s come to intuit.
This is going to be a pro wrestling-free game'," Suda51 says.
It ended up having pro wrestling stuff in it!
It just kind of organically comes out, you know?"
But as a creative, Suda51 isn’t one to be pigeon-holed.
What’s he learned from bouncing around between very different scales of development and genres?
This happens all the time in this industry."
Super special team-up
This is a philosophy he brings to the table in collaborative projects.
Rather than thinking “how am I going to put, like, the Suda51-ness into this game?”
he simply thinks about whether he wants to work with them in the first place.
“For example, with Shinji Mikami [forShadows of the Damned].
We’ve got a really strong trusting relationship.
He’d helped me out a lot.
It’s the same for Hotel Barcelona, which is primarily being developed by Swery65’s studio White Owls.
“I’m really excited to see how that turns out.”
“Im really looking forward to seeing what [James Gunn] does with the DCU.”
The collaboration went well.
“He turned out to be a genuinely good dude,” says Suda51.
“[Gunn] doesn’t have that ‘Hollywood stank’ about him at all.
[…] Im really proud of what we were able to make together.
We still speak once in a while, and he always messages me back right away.
[…] Im really looking forward to seeing what he does with the DCU.”
The subject of what he’s been playing lately comes up.
“I doubt anyone needs me to recommend this title to them, but…
There might be rough edges.
It will probably be off-kilter, and a little bit punk.
But no matter what, it’s always worth hitting play.
How did Suda51 get his start?
