Joystiq:

Lutz returned to the table and Bear proceeded to pitch her on the painting hanging directly behind her head.

“Yeah, Cherie, so, we’ve had this idea for a long time, umm, a marionette, and you use your hands like this, and you’re a skeleton cowboy,” Bear said. “I was lying my ass off, and Mike was just sitting there backing me up.”

Microsoft loved it, and work on what would come to be known as The Gunstringer began almost immediately.

An awesome story about how perhaps one of the best Kinect games yet came to be. Twisted Pixel is one of the most creative dev shops out there right now. If you haven’t bought some of their work, you really should.