hexfield

Our boss Mike Bilder is very serious about not encouraging crunch culture. There are definitely times where people stay late, usually to get a feature they're passionate about in the game, but for the most part we all work normal 8-ish hour day schedules.

We've had some close calls, but we've never missed a huge deadline. Mostly we end up having to cut things instead. As we get more and more ambitious in our designs, we may eventually need more than a year, but sleeping at the office is not the way to get there.

We don't collect individual user answers, but my favorite game of Quiplash was with a very serious group of marketing people who all just answered the prompts extremely honestly.

Worst thing to find in your food? a hair

Worst thing to lock in your car? my keys

I broke it!

Tom Gottlieb has been voicing Cookie for years and has it down to a science. He records remotely in New York and does a lot of his own light audio editing, saving us a ton of time. Still, it's many many months of work.

I'll take 3. Accept that you will not know the correct answer off the top of your head. Think of what the most plausible answer on the board could be. Then factor in that we wouldn't have written the question if the most plausible answer was the correct one. Then pick at random.