Education
Osaka University of Arts.
末弘 秀孝
Osaka University of Arts.
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.
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.
