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Game Designer Inspirational Quotes (268)

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Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.
Aaron Allston
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The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
Aaron Allston
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston
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Any time I consider a new project, I ask myself, is this pushing the state of gaming toward Nobel Prizes? If it's not, then it's not doing anything important enough to spend my time.
Jane McGonigal
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The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future.
Gabe Newell
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I developed my very first game after reading Riddle Master by Patricia McKillip.
Klaus Teuber
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There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you’re involved in, whether it’s a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agents or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.
Gary Gygax
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You need to develop mental habits that allow you to activate the same brain patterns we activate during gameplay.
Jane McGonigal
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I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?” “Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us.” Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. “When all else fails, just do that.
Aaron Allston
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Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?
Jane McGonigal
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If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You need people who are adaptable because the thing that makes you the best in the world in one generation of games is going to be totally useless in the next.
Gabe Newell
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Chaos and Order combined equal Balance.
Richard Garriott
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Only the insane equate pain with success.
American McGee
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At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface. Crash. Quite slowly. Face & Luke
Aaron Allston
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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Guy Debord
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Among the games I did not develop myself, my most frequently played game is definitely Doppelkopf, a traditional German card game for more than 40 years now, I play it regularly with old school friends.
Klaus Teuber
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The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.
Will Wright
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Plagiarism is necessary, progress implies it
Guy Debord
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Where the real world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings and effective motivations of hypnotic behavior.
Guy Debord
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Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.
Will Wright
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hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot
Jeff Kinney
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Our goal has been to stay true to what people most love about the original Pirates! while upgrading, enhancing, and in some cases, re-inventing the game to make it a great experience for todays gamers.
Sid Meier
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I will do this. Nothing in my life matters except this. No moment of my life exists except this moment. I am born in this moment, and if I fail, I will die in this moment.
Tracy Hickman
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I get inspired by the notion of transforming people into extraordinary versions of themselves.
Elan Lee
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