Rare Q&A with Rockstar Games head Sam Houser->
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Paul Williams writes "Develop has posted up a fascinating mutlti-part interview with Sam Houser, president and founder of Rockstar Games.
Houser is rarely quoted outside of press releases, and almost never does interviews. So reading his frank views on things like Rockstar's critics, the creative secrets that make games liks GTAIV a success, and how the developer rejects things like focus testing — a common practice at the likes of EA but an 'anathema to creativity' according to Houser — is very interesting.
(Houser has even written a mini biography of his career, with some fun references to the Hot Coffee scandal: "July 2005: Residue code found in San Andreas. Hackers modify it and it turns into scandal known as 'Hot Coffee'. Get dragged into legal nightmare, ending in trip to Washington in February 2006 to sit in front of federal trade commission staff — for nine hours.")
The piece is in multiple parts, though, didn't know which ones to submit:
http://www.developmag.com/interviews/247/Grand-Theft-Auteur-Part-1
http://www.developmag.com/interviews/248/Grand-Theft-Auteur-Part-2
http://www.developmag.com/interviews/249/Sam-Houser-His-Story"
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Houser is rarely quoted outside of press releases, and almost never does interviews. So reading his frank views on things like Rockstar's critics, the creative secrets that make games liks GTAIV a success, and how the developer rejects things like focus testing — a common practice at the likes of EA but an 'anathema to creativity' according to Houser — is very interesting.
(Houser has even written a mini biography of his career, with some fun references to the Hot Coffee scandal: "July 2005: Residue code found in San Andreas. Hackers modify it and it turns into scandal known as 'Hot Coffee'. Get dragged into legal nightmare, ending in trip to Washington in February 2006 to sit in front of federal trade commission staff — for nine hours.")
The piece is in multiple parts, though, didn't know which ones to submit:
http://www.developmag.com/interviews/247/Grand-Theft-Auteur-Part-1
http://www.developmag.com/interviews/248/Grand-Theft-Auteur-Part-2
http://www.developmag.com/interviews/249/Sam-Houser-His-Story"
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Rare Q&A with Rockstar Games head Sam Houser