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" I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that. "

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" I've always said - I've been making games for twenty years, and from the first day I got in this business, I've been saying, 'All I have to do is sell one more copy than I have to, to get somebody to fund my next one.' "

Warren Spector

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Games

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 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 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?' "

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

" Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.' "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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! "

" I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords. "

" 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've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking. "

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

Warren Spector

Air

System

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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