Dan Houser

And I kept worrying about it.

And then my work was wrapped on GTA 4, but the game wasn't out yet.

And we've done a bunch of the marketing stuff and I had a little window where I wasn't doing much else.

And I took a week with my then girlfriend, now wife, who was heavily pregnant with our first child.

And we went up to a house upstate and sat there in the... Well, she sat there either cooking for me or watching TV or reading.

And I went and sat in the room all day, every day and just sat there and stared at the computer and tried to think about...

How can I do this that it doesn't sound ridiculous?

How can you write in a cowboy idiom that feels both slightly contemporary, but also gives the game this sort of life and this weight that I want it to have and think we can get away with?

And after about three days, it just started to come.

And then suddenly I wrote about it.

nine ten scenes in the next couple of days and after that knew i had it and it was a bit i don't know if it was that was why there was so much about a character caring about his family because i was just beginning the process of having a family oh i don't know to what extent that bled in there but i think it bled in there to some extent so that was part of the creating the 360 degree characters i think so here's this man

He's grown up and is trying to step away from that and be a man, be a grown-up.

And can he get away from it?

And then when he can't get away from it, what's he willing to do to save his family?

And that was, I felt, starting to get some idea, feeling just, I mean, she hadn't given birth yet, but I was beginning to grapple with the ideas of, I'm going to become a parent.

Yeah.

So I hope some of that, and obviously then I probably didn't write any more for six months later on.

I had a child, but certainly that first bit, I think some of that began to bleed in there.

Just wanted it to feel when they spoke.

I mean, I love dialogue.