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" Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use. "
Warren Spector
You
Run
Game
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" Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can. "
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" On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection. "
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" I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore. "
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" In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. "
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" 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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" I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun. "
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" Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in. "
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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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" Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before. "
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" The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen. "
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" I will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile. "
Warren Spector
Support
Any
Game
" I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money. "
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Anything
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" 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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Great
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" $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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Scared
Much
" I think there's always room for more innovation and new things. "
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Think
New Things
Innovation
" 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. "
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Teach
History
Texas
" I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy. "
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Business
Thought
Storm
" I don't care much about hardware. Nintendo games are some of the best games in the world, and from a more graphical standpoint, the Wii can't do what a PS3 or 360 can do. "
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World
Best
Care
" 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
" As far as the timing, well, I'd write that off to luck as much as anything - I happened to be out looking for a development deal, and Disney happened to think my team and I might be the right people to make a Mickey Mouse game. "
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Think
People
" Oswald is an interesting character. Disney lost the rights to him in 1928 to Universal, who was distributing the cartoons and basically handed him over to Walter Lantz. "
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Rights
Lost
" Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too. "
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Coming
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" Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games. "
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" I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do! "
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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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Plus
" I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes. "
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See
" Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it! "
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Life
Remember
" We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do? "
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You
World
" I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan. "
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Nintendo
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" For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming. "
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