Warren Spector Quotes
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I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.
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The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.
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The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience.
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I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.
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We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.
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On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.
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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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I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics.
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I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s.
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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 never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money.
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I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games.
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The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made.
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I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.
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Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday!
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For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming.
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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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For most developers, that kind of situation – a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend – to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration.
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I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.
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I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.
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If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be.