Warren Spector Quotes
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Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air.
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I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!
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The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.
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I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back.
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I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.
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I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.
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The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge.
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$200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much.
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Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.
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Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company.
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The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.
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We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.
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From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.
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Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
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Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.
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The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.
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I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds.
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My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.