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Rockstar VP Houser says Bully struggled until late 2006.
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Dan Houser, the former Rockstar VP who wrote Bully, told IGN the game struggled until very late in development. Protests and fears about a school setting ate up most of 2006, so Rockstar couldn't promote it normally. Things only clicked when a designer added a "Kick me" Post-it note gag, which showed the school setting could work without cars or guns.
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