MTV Interview for BLACKSITE

Our game is coming together here in Austin. It’s hard work, but I love it. This MTV interview is based on a recent conversation.

Work was canceled today as a result of the vast glacier that has crushed the city of Austin. So I just spent the day in front of the fire, working on loose ends and playing with creativity tools. This is a small study from a comic strip I did after my g/f and I both woke up at the same time in the grip of different dreams.

My friend Warren Spector found this. Haunting, since I had a pug for a while. (Yes, this is only a Boston Terrier, not a pug, but still…) And when I worked with Warren, I had my hair colored and cut like this.

I should get my hair done like this again, buy a Boston Terrier, hang this painting in my office, and sit stroking the little dog when people come into the office for meetings.

If someone asked, “Weird…isn’t it strange to hang a picture of you on the wall behind you like that?”

I would respond, deadpan, “That’s not me. It’s my mother.”

“Would you like some wine?”

Recently, MTV visited Austin and our studio (Midway) specifically.

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?name=games&id=1545687

Today I got to hang out with Cliff Martinez for a while, who scored the films Solaris, Narc, Traffic, the Underneath, etc. Great guy, but I babbled like an excited school girl.

Note the dark circles under my eyes from getting very poor sleep lately.