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Video Game Developer Inspirational Quotes (182)

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The moment you start dictating content/themes/story vs. allowing the player to be a participant in the story and carve their own path, you're doing the player a disservice.
Chris Avellone
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In other words, I'm not intending to start from things that require a five-year development time.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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The secret to building great products is not creating awesome features, it's to make your users awesome.
Kathy Sierra
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Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.
John Carmack
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I don't like all the attention. I think it's better to let my work do the talking.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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I don't let Mario appear in just any kind of game. Mario could not appear in Zelda games. They are two distinct game worlds.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Originally, I wanted a machine that would cost $100. My idea was to spend nothing on the console technology so all the money could be spent on improving the interface and software. If we hadn't used NAND flash memory and other pricey parts, we might have succeeded.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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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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Necessity is the mother of invention. I love solving things like that. Because there wasn't enough memory, thinking of an economical way to make the movements look right was like solving a puzzle, and I had a lot of fun.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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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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I have an interest in making first-person games.
Fumito Ueda
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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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I think every company is set by who founded it and who's in charge.
Tim Schafer
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I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.
John Carmack
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What I'm really excited about is that continued challenge to create things that gamers of all experiences can play.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Be quick to make decisions, but slow to give up.
Tomonobu Itagaki
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The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.
John Carmack
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The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family.
Ian Bogost
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If you don't know how compilers work, then you don't know how computers work.
Steve Yegge
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It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.
John Carmack
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Fortunately, because of the spread of smart devices, people take games for granted now. It's a good thing for us, because we do not have to worry about making games something that are relevant to general people's daily lives.
Shigeru Miyamoto
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Privilege is when you think that something's not a problem because it's not a problem for you personally.
David Gaider
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