Costume Quest

Yeah. But I don't know if there's anyone in particular...

The right-hand middleman quit smoking because Zak quit smoking. That's our business dev guy.

Really? I didn't even know that.

Yeah. He quit smoking. When I found out what was going on I was like, I'm going to make our guy quit smoking. He was really irritable one day because he quit smoking. And I was like, I want to use that.

He calls in his mandatory team-building exercises.

You're going to see both. It's just that there's a lot more opportunity and a lot more diversity. That's going to increase in games. Hopefully that'll bring in more people as players, and that'll perpetuate over time.

Maybe games like Costume Quest will appeal to people who don't consider themselves hardcore gamers. Maybe it'll bring in people's spouses and kids and people who hadn't played before. The more diverse the game industry gets the more people it speaks to and the healthier it is.

The risk just came from it being Halloween-themed. Publishers were like, I'm not sure about this because it's seasonal. Apart from Madden, there aren't any seasonal games.

About nine months. That's the same amount of time it took to make Monkey Island. But back then that seemed like a lifetime. Now it just seems like a holiday.

Because of Tasha and the producer. They're both much better organised than me.

It's got people exploding into candy. What are you talking about? It's super violent. But delicious.

I don't think we sit there and say, ah there's too much of this kind of game. It's mostly a more positive thing of what do we like? What do we want to make? Tasha's style is evident in the game. There's just stuff she's into herself.

It's a combination of all these different games I grew up liking and I like now. I like cuter stuff. I like Nintendo's games a lot. World of Warcraft I was really into for a while.

It's nothing against space marines. If Tasha was like, I love space marines, we probably would have made a space marine game. Probably not space marines. Maybe funny space marines. No one's really done funny space marines.

Yeah, let's do that. Funny space marines. That'll be the name of it. I'm feeling lazy. Let's just call it Funny Space Marines. But it's a really sad story, just to keep people on edge. 'It's called Funny Space Marines! Why is it so sad?' Ah, I gotcha.

Sad Funny Space Marines.

You had a go at the Statue of Liberty?

She's a cold lady.

There's a lovely unicorn based on Tasha's childhood unicorn costume.

Battlecorn! It sounds more like a piece of corn on the cob with lasers or something. Battlecorn!

We have a costume idea for DLC now.

Yeah. You can have corn on the cob. No one's had corn on the cob, right? There's a really evil, scary pumpkin head.

And a space warrior. We can't reveal all of them because we want to leave some as a surprise.