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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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" 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

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" 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. "

" I've done a pretty good job of hitting 18-34-year-old males, and not such a good job of reaching kids. Disney has done a great job of reaching kids, but maybe not the 18-34-year-olds. I figure I can learn a lot from Disney, and maybe, I don't know, they can learn a lot from me. "

Warren Spector

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" 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?' "

" The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future. "

" 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. "

Warren Spector

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

" We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do? "

" 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! "

" 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 will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile. "

" The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics. "

" I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons! "

" Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point. "

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

" My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it. "

" 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. "

" In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. "

" If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane. "

" Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use. "

" I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun. "

" Here's the thing: I left Ion Storm and Eidos in the spring of 2004 frankly because I felt out of place at that company. "

" 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. "

" $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. "

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

" 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. "

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