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" Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games. "
Warren Spector
Making
Before
Electronic
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" I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine. "
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" In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. "
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" The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy. "
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" The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge. "
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" I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats. "
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Sunglasses
Know
Night
" It's about players making choices as they play, and then dealing with the consequences of those choices. It's about you telling your story, not me telling mine. It's about you. "
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Me
Story
" Whatever adults don't understand, because they didn't grow up with it, is the thing they're going to be afraid of and try to legislate out of existence. It happened with videogames, it happened with television, it happened with pinball parlours and rock and roll. "
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Rock
Television
Grow
" Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right? "
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Earth
Pressure
Amazing
" Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.' "
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Work
You
People
" Honestly, there have been some pretty good Marvel games, but I don't think there's ever been a great one. "
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Good
Great
Pretty
" $200, 300 million games, I'm a little scared about that; there aren't a lot of companies that have the resources or the courage to spend that much. "
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Courage
Scared
Much
" I used to teach animation history classes at the University of Texas, and I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons. I just love cartoons. "
Warren Spector
Teach
History
Texas
" Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game. "
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You
Think
Reality
" The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future. "
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Over
Future
Sad
" I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story. "
Warren Spector
Game
Never
Own
" I started playing video games, and in 1978 I discovered Dungeons & Dragons and started game-mastering and writing my own adventures and creating my own worlds. "
Warren Spector
Creating
My Own
Video Games
" Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that. "
Warren Spector
Games
Someone
Time
" The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me. "
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Interesting
Only
Morality
" I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons! "
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Master
Thesis
Wrote
" 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. "
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Reach
Thinking
Used
" I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics. "
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Graphics
Would
Update
" I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking. "
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My Life
People
Think
" I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time. "
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Want
Been
Games
" I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand! "
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Stand
School
Lucky
" I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords. "
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Armor
Big
Interest
" Whether it's as the hero of an adventure story, as teacher and friend, as icon on watch, shirt or hat - everyone knows Mickey Mouse. "
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Story
Adventure
Teacher
" I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge. "
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Good And Evil
Evil
World
" I've loved cartoons all along. Most people outgrow that when they hit 10 or 12, I guess, but I never did. I'm not sure why. "
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Never
Why
People
" Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point. "
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Game
People
Price