Amongst prominent video game developers, Hidetaka "Swery" Suehiro stands out for the particular nature of his games, but also thanks to his affable personality. But his career started long before becoming famous for his crazy ideas and bringing his plush monkey with him around the world.
"When I was at SNK in the mid-Nineties", he tells us when we meet at Reboot Develop Blue in Dubrovnik. "I was just an employee. I could just try what I thought was a good idea without really much responsibility.
"Today, my ideas haven't particularly changed, but all the rest has. I have to commit to what I say from conception to actual implementation. And everything that comes after that requires much more responsibility. But that also means I now have the power to follow up with my ideas all the way."