When I came by your desk the other day, you were looking at some old resource management prototypes that Calix had made back in the LA studio years ago. Why were you looking at old stuff from the past?

It's cool. I feel like there are possibilities for the resource network and incorporating different types of interaction. We're also talking with Guillermo about that. There's a lot of gameplay opportunities. And I feel like that's also to add to what a programmer does: we also come up with ideas and then go to Torsten and say, oh, maybe we should try something new.

It was to repair a vending machine? Is that what it was?

Yeah, it was a whole vending machine simulator, basically, with lots of parts you could pick apart and some fuses, whatever. But then you need to translate it into the game with networking and all that, and that's obviously way more work.