Gun Monkeys dev revives The Swindle as "Spelunky crossed with Deus Ex"

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Dan Marshal, developer of Gun Monkeys and Time Gentlemen, Please, has revived his once-cancelled steampunk cybercrime caper The Swindle.
In The Swindle you break into buildings, hack systems, steal cash and escape. Marshall announced the game in 2011 but cancelled it last year because, as he put it, it just wasn't working.
But in early 2014 he went back to the project, creating a procedurally-generated prototype reboot. "Even in those very early stages with just a rectangle sliding around clobbering other rectangles on the back of their little rectangular heads, it was*insanely*fun to play," he said, "which is why I brought the whole project back from the dead."
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