Dan Houser

At times, very intense.

And at other times, magical experience.

But it was also just a huge chunk of my life.

And the middles.

It was just my life.

My life was that job and the people I knew in New York and my family.

And we were doing something that was...

intense and innovative and both loved and hated by wider society in different ways and at different times and in this weird company that was constantly in trouble.

It was really fun.

Well, I was a child.

I was a 25-year-old child who didn't know anything and I wanted to be a writer, but I still wasn't writing.

And I bought a notebook and I'd occasionally scribble in it.

And I still got those notebooks somewhere.

And I was working in video games, which were the least literary medium it's possible to imagine at the time.

There was no room for that on PS1 games, really.

Thinking I needed to...

stop and do something else, but not having the skills or the confidence to do it.

And I'd been doing that in London.

Then I came to New York and it was fun, really fun to be in New York and really fun to do a new company in New York.

And that was an amazing adventure, but I was still lost as a human being.