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Dan Houser predicts that Grand Theft Auto 6 will sell better at launch than Grand Theft Auto 5 due to high levels of anticipation.
Dan Houser founded a new company named Absurd Ventures, which is creating intellectual properties across books, comic books, audio series, and video games.
Absurd Ventures is developing three new intellectual properties: 'A Better Paradise', a dystopian world with a super-intelligent AI; 'American Caper', a satirical world; and 'Absurdiverse', a comedic action-adventure world.
The 'Absurdiverse' intellectual property from Absurd Ventures will include an open-world video game designed to feel like a 'living sitcom'.
The core appeal of Grand Theft Auto 3's open world was its use of a simple AI simulation that created emergent, unscripted behavior and the illusion that the world existed independently of the player.
Absurd Ventures is developing a video game based on its 'A Better Paradise' intellectual property, which is in early development in Santa Monica.
Dan Houser believes Large Language Models (LLMs) will not be effective at creating large-scale, novel ideas but will automate low-level creative work, making it harder for new talent to enter the industry.
Dan Houser predicts that achieving the final 5% of human-like quality in LLMs will require 95% of the total development effort, similar to the challenges in perfecting facial animation.
The development teams for Grand Theft Auto V and Red Dead Redemption 2 each consisted of over 1,000 people.
The development of Red Dead Redemption 2 went significantly over budget and behind schedule.
Dan Houser believes video games have already surpassed film as a business proposition.
Rockstar Games developed a single-player DLC for Grand Theft Auto V featuring the character Trevor as a secret agent, but it was abandoned when it was about half-finished.