Dan Houser

I feel like I'm in an action movie.

And the guy's chasing after the machete.

And the taxi driver looks back, sees the dude with the machete and goes...

si con amigos they're not my friends get me out of here and then I um he drove me up the street into a bit where the town was um it's kind of between the old town and the new town in Cartagena and um I got out of the car and then cut my foot on a rock that was the sum total of my injuries and um

then went to an internet cafe because this was probably late 98 and got the chance to come and work on a game for six weeks in New York.

And I was like, well, if I stay in South America much longer, I'm going to get myself killed because this was, I was getting into silly stuff.

Um,

And so I went to New York and they're just starting Rockstar.

And so I got to sort of write the mission statements and whatnot there and help set the tone for that and just ended up staying.

You know, I had to come and go a bit while all visas got sorted out and then just ended up staying for a year because New York's pretty fun.

It actually was not that.

This was the height of...

Before he was a maniac.

So when you went to bars, you were told you couldn't dance because they were trying to clamp down on New York being fun.

So it was actually less fun than London, but there's still a great energy in New York and got exposed to the kind of madness of New York capitalism.

Steam coming out the floor, people screaming at you.

I mean, you get people screaming at you in LA at least.

You get a bit more quiet here.

Yeah.

And I love the energy.