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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. "

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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. "

Warren Spector

World

Best

Care

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

" 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. "

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

" 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

Good

Done

" 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. "

" The more people who game, the better for everyone. "

Warren Spector

Better

Everyone

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

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

" We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming. "

" 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! "

" My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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

Situation

You

" Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.' "

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

" 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. "