when colin became ceo. >> he basically gave everybody their autonomy, let them design and build. >> his platform was like listen to people here and like take feedback and work together to make something happen. >> colin had put so much time and effort into creating hq words. >> it's time for hq words. >> the next game that was going to be launched soon. >> we had balloons in the office, hq words ready to go with our new show. >> you could tell that colin was under a lot of stress. he felt the responsibility of keeping everyone employed and making the investors happy at the same time. >> we sort of set ourselves up now to launch show after show, and that's -- that's really my whole strategy. >> he was working day and night, really grueling hours, partly driven by the creative desire to accomplish something. but, you know, it was all weighing on him.