Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

I think it would be a great challenge to work on a military game which featured a female lead character. Since female soldiers are now being allowed on the frontlines, we're actually in danger of reality overtaking games!

I like to make all my characters interesting. Be they male, female or creatures unknown.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together.

Generally I wouldn't accept work on projects where I didn't agree with the sensibilities behind the main character.

I am terribly British. Especially in the eyes of Americans. I drink several gallons of tea a day, I'm often excessively polite and it's only through many years of expensive and painful dental work that I don't have bad teeth.