Swindle dev Dan Marshall reveals new spacefaring game

Dan Marshall, developer of The Swindle and Lair of the Clockwork God, revealed the new spacefaring game he’s working on during the latest episode of The Eurogamer Podcast [since renamed One-to-one], which is now available to all either in this article or on all major podcasting platforms.

This new game is not The Swindle 2, though he did begin work on exactly that after Lair of the Clockwork God was released.

“In the dying days of [Lair of] The Clockwork God I was churning over in my head about a Swindle sequel, thinking, ‘This is going to be amazing – I’m really excited about making this,'” he told me during our long conversation, which included his best friend and writing partner Ben Ward (the ‘Ben’ in ‘Dan and Ben’). “But when I actually came to make it, I was thinking, ‘I don’t want to just spend the next three years of my life making the exact same thing again.

“I just felt like I needed to make something… I could see it was going to have the same problems and I was going to be facing the same bugs, and I was going to be doing the same things,” he said. “And my heart sank.”

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So he moved onto a new idea: a wacky idea in which you were to play as a dinosaur on a steampunk game show. Though again, it wouldn’t quite work out.

“I started making this game where you play as an adorable little T-rex. And I put some gifs up on Twitter and I was like, ‘Shall I make this?’ And it went m- like, 600 retweets or something like that. So at that point I was like, ‘I should probably make this,'” he said.