DICE 2010: Darksiders’ creators find success in chaos

"I almost wouldn’t recommend doing the things we do," Joe Madureira, creative director at Darksiders developer Vigil Games told a group of games industry colleagues at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas last week. "We’re reactive and off-the-cuff."

But sometimes "reactive and off-the-cuff" game development works out in the end, even if it may cause some headaches along the way. Austin, TX-based Vigil Games, founded in 2005 by David Adams and renowned comic artist Joe Madureira, released its first game in January this year with Darksiders, an action-adventure game based on one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.