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Video Game Developer Inspirational Quotes (182)

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A good game has to have a fun core, which is a one-sentence description of why it's fun.
Paul Reiche III
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I think the most important way to understand play is that it's this property that's in things. Like there's play in a mechanism. For example, there's some play in the steering column before it engages as you're turning the wheel.
Ian Bogost
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The actual effort that you can exert upon the universe is fairly limited.
Ian Bogost
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I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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About half of all design patterns out there [...] appear to be ways take perfectly natural design ideas and twist them to fit into someones static type system: recipes for pounding square pegs into round holes
Steve Yegge
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Stuttering and trying to find your thoughts, the imperfections make the performances better.
Justin Roiland
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Women were the reason I became a monk - and, ah, the reason I switched back.
Chris Avellone
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It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.
Eiji Aonuma
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I think Chris Roberts is one of them, Will Wright's another, Peter Molyneux is another. They clearly exist, but on the whole, I think that the design talent in our industry is dramatically lower than we need, as an industry. It's a very hard skill to learn.
Richard Garriott
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In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.
Will Wright
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I don't really think of things in terms of legacy or where I stand in the history of Nintendo or anything like that.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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We don't pay a whole lot of attention to the Internet until people have played the game - then we pay a lot of attention to whether people liked it. We read through it and see it, but we don't take it into consideration. ... [The Internet] is not going to dictate the direction of where the game goes.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Play isn't you being clever, or finding a trick, or finding a way of covering over your own misery, or persuading someone to do what you want. It's the process of working with the materials that you find and discovering what's possible with them.
Ian Bogost
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I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.
Tim Schafer
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The problem with fun is we really don't know what fun means at all.
Ian Bogost
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I think Zelda 64 is utilizing about 90 percent of the N64 potential, ... When we made Mario 64 we were simply utilizing 60 to 70 percent. So we have come a long way I believe.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.
Ian Bogost
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As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Providing new means of entertainment is the important thing.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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And every now and then people find the bugs, and they interpret those as cool failures in the Sims terms. For them it's like a treasure hunt, you know.
Will Wright
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Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
Will Harvey
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Bezos is super smart don't get me wrong. He just makes ordinary control freaks look like stoned hippies.
Steve Yegge
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I think this dichotomy or opposition between work and play, between leisure and serious stuff, is definitely a bad way of thinking about the useful insights that play provides.
Ian Bogost
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When I look back I can tell that after I started having a family, I certainly wanted to make games that could be played with all the family members.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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