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The Swindle gives you 100 in-game days to grab as much loot as you can

by rawmeatcowboy
28 July 2015
GN Version 5.0

The Swindle limits you to 100 lives before it's game over. Those lives tie to in-game days, so you have 100 days to pull off heists and grab as much loot as possible. After those 100 days, the government installs security measures that make your heists impossible. Below you can learn why this idea was used and where it came from.

“The idea was always that you leave the level whenever you like. It’s a burglary job, right? There’s no running from right to left and then you’re done.” What this means is that you decide when you’ve amassed enough of a take to make this a good use of one of those hundred days. But if there was no limit, you could just grab the easiest cash over the course of thousands of plays, slowly working your way up in a low-risk manner.

The 100 days limit came in as another resource, separate from money, and as soon as it went in it made the game so much more exciting because it made the money mechanic much more interesting to play with.” Marshall continues. “You know that you need £30,000 to get this upgrade you need, but you’re not sure you can get it, you’ve only got a few days left. Once it was brought in, it focused the design a lot, and made the game feel a lot more pressurized, which I think it needed, as it’s about burglary.” - Dan Marshall, dev

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