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Video Game Designer Inspirational Quotes (235)

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I don't think we should have sex in games. But I think we should have the right to have it. We should have the full range of human experience. It's an art form like any other art form. For me, that's the importance of preserving it.
Brenda Romero
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The universe is not particularly concerned with you.
Ian Bogost
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I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting into that discussion with them. I don't believe I'm compromising on my gameplay ideals at all. [But] any artist who doesn't want his or her work in front of the largest audience possible is nuts.
Warren Spector
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Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done
Warren Spector
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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.
Warren Spector
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Good stories are constructed, not found.
Warren Spector
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I remember having some problems with [the Deus Ex theme] when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out how to tell [Alex Brandon] I wanted changes. But then I noticed that I couldn't get it out of my mind. I was whistling or humming it to myself all the time. So I just kept my mouth shut and let it be. I think it's a highly addictive tune
Warren Spector
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LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.
Jesse Schell
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A great idea solves multiple problems at the same time.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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A delayed game is eventually good, but a rushed game is forever bad.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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I'm very careful about violence in games. I'm not interested in creating violent effects.
Satoshi Tajiri
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If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say Well what do you mean? it's almost impossible to answer.
Ian Bogost
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We're going to continue to see games turned into movies.
Cliff Bleszinski
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Controller is so intuitive, even your mum can play.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.
Sid Meier
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Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.
Jesse Schell
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Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Video games are like a religion you want to get people tattooing your little logo on their body so they’ll get somebody else interested in it too.
Cliff Bleszinski
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I'd bet Sony has some similar stuff up their sleeves they're just playing on the internet outrage for free PR. You're all being played!
Cliff Bleszinski
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Your children are your retirement plan. Because of that, all parents want their children, their only children, to do really well financially, so that they can essentially take care of their parents when they are older.
Jenova Chen
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When artists and philosophers talk only amongst themselves, they ignore the potential of popular culture to become a variety of dialogues with and between everyday people. Its discourse may be productive of desire and pleasure, but popular culture is also a language in which people discuss politics, religion, ethics, and action.
Brenda Laurel
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The human body is supposed to be 70 percent water. I consider myself 70 percent film
Hideo Kojima
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Play is this process of operating the world, of manipulating things. It's related to experimentation, and it's related to pleasure, but not defined by it.
Ian Bogost
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War buddies don't exist in the meeting room. It's a battle between a lot of different officers. Some continue fighting when they don't realize that they have been shot.
Hideo Kojima
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