{"id":623,"date":"2013-09-07T15:24:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T15:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/?p=623"},"modified":"2013-09-07T15:36:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T15:36:31","slug":"rockstars-dan-houser-interview-reveals-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/rockstars-dan-houser-interview-reveals-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar&#8217;s Dan Houser interview reveals GTA 5 secrets and challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a very impressive and in-depth interview on TheGuardian.com with Rockstar&#8217;s co-founder and vice president Dan Houser. There are some secrets and challenges that they encountered during the development process. Here is a quick rundown on some key information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto is the fifth biggest-selling videogame franchise of all time<\/li>\n<li>four years of development on GTA V<\/li>\n<li>1,000-page script, months of motion and voice capture<\/li>\n<li>eight international studios involved in creating GTA 5<\/li>\n<li>Los Santos map is bigger than those of GTA IV, GTA: San Andreas and Red Dead Redemption combined<\/li>\n<li>spent a minimum of 100 days in Los Angeles on research trips<\/li>\n<li>spoke to FBI agents that have been undercover, experts in the Mafia, street gangsters who know the slang<\/li>\n<li>transcript runs to more than 10,000 words<\/li>\n<li>Rockstar has been approached many times by film studios about a film licence but Rockstar says &#8220;it&#8217;s never appealed&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto IV alone made $310m on release day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2013\/sep\/07\/grand-theft-auto-dan-houser\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a very impressive and in-depth interview on TheGuardian.com with Rockstar&#8217;s co-founder and vice president Dan Houser. There are some secrets and challenges that they encountered during the development process. Here is a quick rundown on some key information: Grand Theft Auto is the fifth biggest-selling videogame franchise of all time four years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":626,"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions\/626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.grandtheftautoforever.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}