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" From a gameplay standpoint, I've said for years that hero, fiction, and tone have nothing to do with the idea that choices have consequences. And that's really what I'm interested in. I care about you showing how clever and creative you are. "

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" I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math! "

Warren Spector

Think

Time

Size

" Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too. "

" The basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience. "

" I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story. "

" I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005. "

" We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does. "

Warren Spector

Situation

You

" Honestly, there have been some pretty good Marvel games, but I don't think there's ever been a great one. "

" For most developers, that kind of situation - a player figuring out how to do something that the designer didn't intend - to most developers, that's a bug. For me, that's a celebration. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me. "

Warren Spector

Away

Fan

" In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running. "

" I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore. "

Warren Spector

Alien

Earth

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games. "

" Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

Warren Spector

Done

Month

" The Disney archives, it's 84 years of history. The one way in which I feel I'm a kindred spirit with Walt Disney is that neither one of us ever throws anything away. He never threw anything away. "

" I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games. "

" I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?' "

" 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. "