{"id":84422,"date":"2026-06-13T21:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84422"},"modified":"2026-06-13T22:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T02:36:39","slug":"rockstar-co-founder-dan-houser-says-theres-no-right-way-to-play-an-open-world-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=84422","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar Co-Founder Dan Houser Says There\u2019s No Right Way to Play an Open-World Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>Dan Houser doesn\u2019t care <em>that <\/em>much if you get all the way to the story credits on his games, as long as you\u2019re having fun in the worlds he\u2019s created. \u201cIf someone enjoyed a game, that&#8217;s great,\u201d the Rockstar co-founder and Grand Theft Auto\/Red Dead Redemption writer said at a panel at the Tribeca Festival in New York City on Saturday. \u201cIf you can\u2019t finish a story, but you loved it in other ways: Great, I don&#8217;t care. I mean, I would like it if you finish the story because I spent ages on it.\u2029If you enjoyed it, that&#8217;s enough for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Houser\u2019s longtime creative partner Lazlow \u2014 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/rockstar-games-co-founder-dan-houser-announces-new-studio-absurd-ventures\">founded the multimedia studio Absurd Ventures<\/a> with Houser after leaving Rockstar in 2020 \u2014 also sat on the panel, adding: \u201cWe also love burying very deep Easter eggs and games. Sometimes they take one or two years or longer for players to discover. I mean, we love burying stuff so deep that sometimes three or four years goes by, I&#8217;m like, \u2018Maybe this makes it too hard to find.\u2019 And somebody finds it and then it blows up on Reddit, and we&#8217;re like, \u2018Yay.\u2019\u201d Just earlier this year, Red Dead Redemption<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Houser doesn\u2019t care that much if you get all the way to the story credits on his games, as long as you\u2019re having fun in the worlds he\u2019s created. \u201cIf someone enjoyed a game, that&#8217;s great,\u201d the Rockstar co-founder and Grand Theft Auto\/Red Dead Redemption writer said at a panel at the Tribeca Festival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":84424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84426,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84422\/revisions\/84426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/84424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}