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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible. "

" I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s. "

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

" I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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