You’re empathising in a lot of games with a character who’s dying over and over again. I dunno, I find that enjoyable. It's a stimulant.

There’s no trick to writing a male or female character, it’s just humans. You have vast knowledge of what that means, and to solidify a character you just bring it out.

Riddick needs stuff in his world that can stand up to him. You really need to get these shrimp-like giant spaceships to try and eat him just to level things out.

Bullets? Sure. Rotating fans? Of course. Highways? Airliners landing? Everything that moves and looks awesome when stopped mid-move is welcome here.

I’m hoping to craft this game as if it’s sort of a prog rock concept album. Not in an explicit way, but in the way any classic rock album delivers, abstract and more poetic.

Lens flare has such a subconscious, visceral effect that it’s like when people see a rainbow, or they look at stained glass in churches. It speaks about exploration, mystery, divinity...

So, you want me to make seven time trial maps on a similar scale to some of the other levels which took one artist two years to make, and you want me to do it in three months?

‘We can make something amazing. This studio can be put on the map and you guys can be part of that. You can do something no one else in your country is doing.’

People were so enamoured that we could have just kept going and gotten any amount of money. Time was our enemy.