Back in 2013, months after the PS3 release of Deadly Premonition The Director’s Cut, Rising Star Games released a nifty 352-page tie-in visual guide chock-full of cool media that included a neat peak at Swery’s notes, storyboards, and concept art during the game’s development.

I was so excited to get my hands on this ibook which had made use of this site’s character bios, sound recordings, and zoomable Greenvale map!

Even though it was fun and beautiful to look at I couldn’t be helped but be super disappointed that most of the behind the scenes items in the guide were left untranslated. Sure, seeing Swery’s notes and the concept pictures was nice but leaving all the notations in Japanese felt like such a big tease…until now!

I took it upon myself to hired someone to translate Swery’s notes within the Official Visual Guide and I hope to get the storyboards and concept art translated as well in the next few weeks! ?

Check out the NEVER BEFORE SEEN English translation of Swery’s game dev notes here!