{"id":1382088,"date":"2025-11-05T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/MiziQXVZAwyUHJNNgjMR2i"},"modified":"2025-11-05T16:36:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T16:36:24","slug":"rockstar-co-founder-moved-to-new-york-to-help-create-gta-in-part-because-he-got-chased-by-a-guy-with-a-machete-i-thought-this-is-not-good-and-i-ran-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/rockstar-co-founder-moved-to-new-york-to-help-create-gta-in-part-because-he-got-chased-by-a-guy-with-a-machete-i-thought-this-is-not-good-and-i-ran-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockstar co-founder moved to New York to help create GTA, in part, because he got chased by a guy with a machete: &#8216;I thought\u2014this is not good\u2014and I ran off&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Rockstar&#8217;s co-founder and writer, Dan Houser, has led a\u2026 uh, colourful life\u2014moving to New York in 1998, he&#8217;d go on to help create what is now one of the biggest game development studios and companies in the entire industry. But it turns out that the impetus for Houser to get his butt to the big apple was, pretty fittingly, something out of a Grand Theft Auto sequence.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s per an interview Houser had with <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/o3gbXDjNWyI\" target=\"_blank\">Lex Fridman<\/a>, which you can also find below. Houser says that, circa &#8217;98, &#8220;my life was a mess. I was in South America, in Colombia, when there was a war waging there. I was making a series of very poor life choices, and the lack of life skills aged 25\u2014my latest poor choice was to get up too early.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\" data-nosnippet >\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><iframe data-lazy-priority=\"low\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o3gbXDjNWyI?start=9342\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Colombia during the &#8217;90s was, to risk an understatement, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nrc.no\/perspectives\/2015\/nr-4\/colombias-bloody-history\" target=\"_blank\">not exactly the best place to be<\/a>, which is something Houser discovered first-hand: &#8220;The police didn&#8217;t start work &#8217;till nine but the muggers started at eight. I was out walking along the beach at eight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He recalls speaking with someone on the beach before &#8220;two guys came to talk to him, and I couldn&#8217;t tell if they were trying to mug him, if he owed the money, or if he&#8217;d bought me to them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One of them had a machete and one of them had a broken gun. I thought &#8216;this is not good&#8217; and I ran off, sprinting down the beach in my silly shoes. I got the chance for once in my life to run over a road, jump into a taxi, and scream: &#8216;Take me anywhere!&#8217; Like I&#8217;m in an action movie.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Houser made it through the altercation unscathed. Well, mostly: &#8220;I got out of the car and cut my foot on a rock, that was the sum total of my injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That incident, as Houser describes it, was one of the galvanising moments that saw him travelling to New York: &#8220;I went to an internet cafe, because this was probably late &#8217;98, and got the chance to come and work on a game for six weeks in New York \u2026 I was like, well, if I stayed in South America much longer, I was gonna get myself killed because I was getting into silly stuff.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rest, as we know, is history\u2014as Houser puts it: &#8220;I got to write the mission statements and help set the tone for that\u2014and just ended up staying \u2026 thought &#8216;ah, I&#8217;ll stay for a year.'&#8221; It wound up being quite a few years, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/rockstar-co-founder-dan-houser-is-leaving-the-company\/\">as he wouldn&#8217;t leave Rockstar until 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"product\"><a data-dimension112=\"104c7036-0961-4283-bb8c-f5f30b29324e\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><\/p>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:400px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:100.00%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"Vji3V6i3HDWUHeQ22PrjFL\" name=\"New Project (8).jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/rockstar-co-founder-moved-to-new-york-to-help-create-gta-in-part-because-he-got-chased-by-a-guy-with-a-machete-i-thought-this-is-not-good-and-i-ran-off.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" credit=\"\" class=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/new-games-2025-upcoming-pc-release-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dimension112=\"104c7036-0961-4283-bb8c-f5f30b29324e\" data-action=\"Deal Block\" data-label=\"2025 games\" data-dimension48=\"2025 games\" data-dimension25=\"\"><strong>2025 games<\/strong><\/a>: This year&#8217;s upcoming releases<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Our all-time favorites<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-50-best-free-pc-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Free PC games<\/strong><\/a>: Freebie fest<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-fps-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best FPS games<\/strong><\/a>: Finest gunplay<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-rpgs-of-all-time\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best RPGs<\/strong><\/a>: Grand adventures<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/the-best-co-op-games\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Best co-op games<\/strong><\/a>: Better together<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/games\/third-person-shooter\/rockstar-co-founder-moved-to-new-york-to-help-create-gta-in-part-because-he-got-chased-by-a-guy-with-a-machete-i-thought-this-is-not-good-and-i-ran-off\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rockstar&#8217;s co-founder and writer, Dan Houser, has led a\u2026 uh, colourful life\u2014moving to New York in 1998, he&#8217;d go on to help create what is now one of the biggest game development studios and companies in the entire industry. 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