The Good Life is a debt repayment daily life RPG co-developed by SWERY's (Deadly Premonition) White Owls Inc. and a development team led by Yukio Futatsugi, the creator of Panzer Dragoon and Phantom Dust.
The Good Life is a Daily Life Simulator x SWERISM
You like bizarre and mysterious things?
You like unique and memorable characters?
You want to enjoy a game that offers a lot of freedom, but you also want to enjoy a good story?
Think that's too much to ask for? Not in The Good Life! This game is made for you!
Link to Kickstarter Campaign
Video Comparison from the previous campaign to now
Play as Naomi, a journalist from New York who moves to a backwoods British town called Rainy Woods in order to pay off her massive debt.
The only way for her to escape from debt hell is to take pictures of happenings in the town and report on them. Of course, 'the happiest town in the world' is not your average town...
The inhabitants of the happiest town in the world are some of the most bizarre people you'll ever come across. You'll live alongside them as you solve mysteries and experience a hearty helping of craziness. We're sure that you'll eventually come to love all the mystery, horror, and good old charm that this town has to offer.
Update #30- Last 48h of the campaign - Stretch Goals and Backerkit announced
Update #24 - Playable Prototype Demo
The Good Life Prototype Demo, Available Now! - The Good Life プロトタイプ体験版配信決定！
Because it was highly requested in the Twitter poll...
We've decided to release a public demo for The Good Life!
And guess what? You can download it now!!
Download from the link below
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wkbB1bNsht-EVkiyvfxdYumbZGIwmuTW/view?usp=sharing
In order to start the game, double click "The Good Life Prototype Demo 2018 April.exe".
We did our best to prepare this ASAP in order to grant everyone's wishes.
There are a bunch of bugs present in the build, but we hope you'll enjoy this chance to visit the world of The Good Life much earlier than scheduled!!
There are only 8 days left until the campaign ends!
You're free to use the demo as you please, so go ahead and share it with all your friends and all over the internet!
Please help us find more supporters. We're counting on you!
I Love You All!!
SWERY
Update #29 - The Good Life Dog Gameplay!
Update #16 - [Let's Play by SWERY] The Good Life Pre-Production Build Body
[The Good Life]TECH "CAT" transformation demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY17m1CbtHc
Update #5 - Tech Demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ecohAoxbZY
The main character of this game is a female New Yorker named Naomi. In order to pay off her debt, she took a job from a newspaper company in NY and moved to the 'happiest town in the world.' This game chronicles all the bizarre things she experiences during her time in the town.
A completely new 'daily life action-adventure game' with a slow life that isn't actually slow!
In this game, the player has two main goals:
1. Pay off your debt with money you earn from doing photography jobs in the town.
2. Solve the mystery of the murder that took place in the 'happiest town in the world.'
The townspeople are also hiding a big secret...
In the moonlight, all the townspeople suddenly transform... And suddenly, the town is filled with cats and dogs!
Once a month, everyone who lives there transforms into either a cat or a dog.
Naturally, Naomi and the player will also turn into a cat or a dog.
You'll be able to select whether you want to transform into a cat or a dog at the very beginning. But if you get far enough in the story, you may reach a point where you can freely switch between them...?
What happens in the town depends entirely on you!
How the townspeople behave, how their lives play out, and how the story ends... It'll all change based on your decisions.
(How you interact with the townspeople and make friends with them will change how they think and behave.)
The townspeople's relationships will change based on how you play. In one town, you may see a surprising couple start dating... Or a normal character in your town may become the mayor of your friend's town...
You may even be able to influence how the story in your town plays out!
The story will eventually lead its main character (you) to a shocking truth...
As a journalist, your job is to take photographs as you live out your life in the town.
You can take photos of anyone, anywhere, then later post those photos on a photo app or sell them to a newspaper company for money.
All you need to do is frame your subjects! The abilities of your equipment will determine the overall quality.
This means that in order to take good pictures, you'll need to acquire a lot of different tools!
But first, you'll need to make a lot of money...
In order to pay off your debt, in order to buy good equipment, in order to enjoy yourself, in order to quench your thirst for fashion...
In order to enjoy your life in Rainy Woods to the fullest, you'll need to take every chance you can to earn some extra cash!
Make money with your photos!
There are two ways for you to turn your photographs into money.
The first is to use the in-game SNS photo app "Flamingo."
Unlike Instagram, you can earn advertising profits for each "Like" your photos get.
All you need to do is upload them!
Choose photos that best capture the seasons, add fun filters to your animal shots, or create a charming portrait.
Choose photos that you think will get the most buzz on Flamingo and rack up the Likes!
The other way is to sell your photos to Morningvale, a newspaper company.
Photographs connected to the town's secrets will yield great rewards. What are the townspeople hiding...?
Since Naomi's debt is connected to Morningvale, all the money you earn through them will only be used to pay it off.
Make even more money with various part-time jobs!
What do you think of when you hear the word 'countryside?' Gathering bugs and fruit? No, we're tired of all that! Shear sheep, deliver milk, make jam and hay, do some gardening, or work as a bartender, a casino dealer, a miner, or even mine for cryptocurrency if you want to! Enjoy some part-time jobs that are really 'out there' and give your country life a little mature flavor!
Blow all the money you've earned on whatever you want!
You can use the money you earn to pay off your debt and buy new camera equipment, but sometimes, it's good just to blow it on something fun!
Go out for a drink, buy an expensive brand item, enjoy some afternoon tea, start an antique furniture collection...
Don't forget to reward yourself for working hard!
Enjoy the changes in time and season!
This is an open-world game centered around a rural English town. Naturally, the time and seasons will run on their own in-game clock. There will be special photos that you can only take in certain seasons which can be sold for lots of money, and we want traditional English events to appear in their proper seasons. Of course, classic events such as Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, and Easter are also being considered! Aside from events, you can test your luck in other ways such as journeying into mines to discover valuable ore veins, fishing your heart out, or harvesting a field of crops.
Enjoy fashion!
You can use money to give Naomi some style! Try on different outfits and pick the look you like best. Some clothes might even boost Naomi's parameters...
You need to take good care of yourself!
This game contains various parameters. For example, life, stamina, hunger, sleepiness, inebriation, beauty care... And for Naomi, a native to one of the world's most cutting edge cities, beauty care is super important!
Make sure you don't forget to give yourself some special care every morning and every evening. Otherwise, you'll lose your feminine charm and end up as a filthy flytrap!
Once per month, you can enjoy the limitless freedom that only cats and dogs get to experience.
Turn into a cat and climb up to high places, scratch walls, and steal fish and chips from kitchens... Or turn into a dog and dig holes, follow scents, and swim in rivers and lakes... It only happens once a month, so make sure you enjoy it to your heart's content!
Cat/dog mystery solving image
Use your telescope lens to snap shots of targets in areas you can reach as a cat, or get up close to them as a dog and try to acquire the perfect scoop for a scandal photograph. There are some mysteries that only animals can solve! When you turn into one, you'll be able to do new things and adventure into new places.
Shipping Information
In order to keep costs as fair as possible and to avoid those costs to count towards our goals, we are planning to use a pledge manager (like BackerKit) to handle the shipping costs. Shipping costs will reflect the actual cost to ship your pledge. They will be charged to you when the items are ready to be sent, after the game has launched.
The Good Life - Physical Collector's Edition
We are still working on the details of the collector's edition. We will have them here, before the campaign ends. Its design will be unique to Kickstarter backers.
Rewards description and USD prices
Below you can find a summary of all the rewards, along an estimate of their price in US Dollars. The campaign is in Japanese Yen, those prices below are purely a guideline for the price range. As currency exchange rates can vary, we recommend you check on a dedicated website to have an up-to-date price of the rewards.
I'm SWERY, the director of The Good Life.
The Good Life is my "dream game". I've been thinking about it for a very long time, and was finally blessed with a chance to develop it thanks to my powerful partners - and you, of course. Please join in on our project and help us make my dream game into EVERYONE'S dream game! I Love You All!
I'm Futatsugi, from G-rounding. A long time ago, I used to believe that games had magic in them. A new game always brought me a brand new experience, and excitement as to what would happen next. Crazy things would happen, and it felt really like I had fallen under some sort of spell. But lately, the risks involved in creating new games have gotten more and more extreme, and it's becoming harder and harder to make magic games. SWERY and I want to bring that magic back - but we need to borrow a little mana from you in order to summon it. We want to show the world a kind of magic it's never seen.
I'm Hotta, the art director. When I first heard about The Good Life, I was deeply drawn in by atmosphere (a personal favorite style of mine) and the direction its art style was heading in. I'm so excited to start working on it. After working hard on the art direction, we've finally arrived at the style that I always hoped we would eventually reach! I'm going to put 120% of all I've got into this, while enjoying the chemical reactions that ensue between the art style, the atmosphere, and SWERY!
Unity
White Owls has an idea for a fun game. G-rounding has the skill and the experience to create it. However, we don't possess the funds to push this project forward.
Since 2010, the methods by which games are created have been changing rapidly. Through the proliferation of various game engines, virtually anyone can make their own game now as long as they set up the proper environment for it. Indie games have risen, multiple digital distribution platforms have become well-established, and new platforms such as VR have entered the fray. Due to these reasons and more, we game creators must adapt to many changes in order to survive.
This is especially true when it comes to gathering funds. The method to gather funds known as crowdfunding is now available to us. We no longer have to narrow in on our target and pitch an idea to a single investor in the hopes of possibly receiving a large amount of funds. Instead, it's becoming more and more common for game creators to pitch their ideas directly to their audience and gather funds that way.
The truth is that even in this day and age, most Japanese game creators still gather funds using the traditional method. But this method will never allow a creator to truly own their work and let it be their identity while also knowing that it will be able to support them their future -- two things that Western creators adopting newer methods have managed to achieve. In Japan, copyrights always belong to the investors, which includes not only the profits from those rights, but also the rights to create continuations using the same IPs.
That's why we want to take the awesome concept behind The Good Life and use our skill to build it on equal footing with our investors. After thinking long and hard about what our best course of action would be, we decided to adopt a hybrid model that allows us to push forth the project with both funds from partners and crowdfunding together.
Videos showcasing the game from popular Youtubers:
supergreatfriend: Demo Friend - The Good Life (Prototype)
Mega64: MEGA64 x SWERY "THE GOOD LIFE" VISUAL 01
Jim Sterling:The Good Life [Demo] - SWERY's Latest Silliness (Jimpressions)
Super Best Friends:
Super Best Friends Play The Good Life Prototype (FINAL DAYS)
Dusk Golem: The Good Life (Kickstarter demo) by Swery65 (Deadly Premonition/D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die)
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