Rockstar executives explain how GTA 6 is actually made

Rockstar North head of development and co-studio head Rob Nelson told Love magazine that the team builds the game through a series of eight-week milestones, pulling agreed-upon sections together, evaluating them, and using notes to set the next milestone's focus year after year. Open-world writing director James Horton said Rockstar set up a Los Angeles team solely to write pedestrian dialogue, working with a local production team on the game's thousands of unique NPCs. Grand Theft Auto 6 has been in development in some form since 2014, and players will get to try it next month.