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" 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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" 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

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You

" My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out. "

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

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

" The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally. "

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

" 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. "

" $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 kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes. "

" I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question. "

" 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've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games. "

" 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

Choices

Story

" I don't even make multiplayer games much, so dealing with multiple characters is something new for me - or, rather, something I've had to recall from my days as a roleplaying adventure designer where the party was everything! "

Warren Spector

Adventure

Days

" Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games. "

" I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back. "

" Third-person camera is way harder than I even imagined it could be. It is the hardest problem in video game development. Everybody gets it wrong. It's just a question of how close to right do you get it. "

" Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air. "

Warren Spector

Air

System

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

" I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats. "

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

" 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. "

" I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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