Jenova Chen Quotes
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If we can make great games for PS3 players... how many PS3 players are out there? If we can make great games for everybody, that's a much bigger service. There's no reason I shouldn't do that.
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Designing a game can be like a Japanese garden. It's not what you put in but how much you take away.
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The struggle we went through in the last year of 'Journey' was pretty insane, and I think that is also why, when I was working on the struggle level, I was able to channel my own struggle into the game.
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'Flower' is about the sublime.
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I would say 'Flower' had a story. It is told through the environment.
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I like technology, but the blockbuster games use it for the same thing over and over again.
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We founded thatgamecompany to push the boundary of video games as an interactive medium.
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Our goal is always to make games that can move people, that are designed for everybody so the whole family should be able to play it together, and that bring people together and really move them in a way.
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When I read a good story, I often start thinking, 'Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?' It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.
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I really like 'ICO' and 'Shadow of the Colossus.'
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If you can imagine the delight of visiting a theme park where lasting memories are made, we envision 'Sky' will sometimes feel like that.
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'Journey' is a way for us to explore the crossing, the intersection of our lives between each other.
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I feel like that nature has this great power.
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It's stressful when you run a company.
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I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we're all the same.
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Our vision is for games to offer a wide variety of different experiences and attract all kinds of gamers and nongamers.
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Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.
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I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.
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Thatgamecompany was founded with the philosophy that games are a form of entertainment, and entertainment is the food for emotion.