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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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" 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 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! "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who says they want to make a game that becomes a cult classic is kinda screwy, right? I mean, you want to reach the largest audience you can. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 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! "

" 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. "

" 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 was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "