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" I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords. "
Warren Spector
Armor
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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. "
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Texas
" 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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Done
Month
" 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?' "
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" 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
" 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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Game
Think
People
" 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. "
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Rock
Television
Grow
" 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? "
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Earth
Pressure
Amazing
" I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun. "
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Shown
Think
Thief
" 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. "
Warren Spector
Want
Been
Games
" 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. "
Warren Spector
Interesting
Rights
Lost
" I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge. "
Warren Spector
Good And Evil
Evil
World
" When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running. "
Warren Spector
Just
Game
You
" 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. "
Warren Spector
Experience
You
Creative
" Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point. "
Warren Spector
Game
People
Price
" I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes. "
Warren Spector
Business
Machine
See
" 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
Me
" 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. "
Warren Spector
First
Most
Pretty
" I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics. "
Warren Spector
Graphics
Would
Update
" 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! "
Warren Spector
Yourself
World
Win Or Lose
" 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. "
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My Life
Game
World
" 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! "
Warren Spector
Time
Best
Travel
" The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy. "
Warren Spector
End
Worth
Experience
" 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. "
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Reality
Experience
Game
" I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons! "
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Master
Thesis
Wrote
" 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
Me
Story
" 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. "
Warren Spector
Choices
Said
You
" In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white. "
Warren Spector
Character
Black And White
Black
" 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. "
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Never
Why
People
" In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. "
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Time Passes
Time
Differently
" 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! "
Warren Spector
My Life
Life
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