Dan Houser

I love that persona, but he's kind of, it's hard.

If you make him American, it's hard for it not just to be Hunter S. Thompson.

No, it's in this animated show we're developing in this sort of comedy world we're working on called Absurdiverse, and it's in one of the stories in that.

Absurdiverse is a comedy universe we're developing that will be an open world video game and then some loosely adjacent stories that we're going to make as animated TV shows or possibly animated movies.

We're still thinking that all through.

And we're building the game up in San Rafael at the moment.

And it's early days, but it's looking very exciting.

And it's trying to make a game that feels a little bit like a living sitcom.

I hope it's got comedy, cynicism, heart.

Drama and some amusing life lessons.

Otherwise, you can't just have jokes for 40 hours.

It won't work.

Well, I think it needs story.

One of my favorite comedies of this century is The Office because it was incredibly funny, but also because it had narrative and heart underneath the cynicism.

I think with narrative, you get a drive alongside jokes.

Yes.

In that world.

Yes.

Two, three, four years, still thinking that through.

That's an interesting question.