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Game Designer Inspirational Quotes (268)

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What is false creates taste, and reinforces itself by knowingly eliminating any possible reference to the authentic. And what is genuine is reconstructed as quickly as possible, to resemble the false.
Guy Debord
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Role-playing isn't storytelling. If the dungeon master is directing it, it's not a game.
Gary Gygax
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Only a few find the way, some don't recognize it when they do, somedon't ever want to.
American McGee
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When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.
American McGee
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Every adventure requires a first step. Trite but true, even here.
American McGee
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I typically go overboard when I research new projects.
Will Wright
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It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.
Will Wright
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Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!
Will Wright
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The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent.
Will Wright
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Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.
Will Wright
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We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.
Will Wright
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Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.
Will Wright
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The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.
Will Wright
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No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players.
Will Wright
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Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.
Will Wright
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It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.
Will Wright
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I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.
Will Wright
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I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it.
Will Wright
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Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.
Will Wright
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No longer is science asked to understand the world, or to improve any part of it. It is asked instead to immediately justify everything that happens... spectacular domination has cut down the vast tree of scientific knowledge in order to make itself a truncheon.
Guy Debord
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How much wrong have we done unintentionally, meaning the best
Tracy Hickman
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I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people.
Gabe Newell
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
Aaron Allston
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
Aaron Allston
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