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" I want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world. "
Warren Spector
My Life
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" I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can. "
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" 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. "
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" The only thing I insist that everybody do is there has to be a basketball court in every game I do, and - with one exception, I let them get away with it once - you can actually shoot a ball through the basket in every game I've made. "
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" 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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" People perceive games as being for kids, and I think that perception is going to change. Time is going to take care of that. I mean, we've already won. Games have won; it's inevitable. "
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" $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. "
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" I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons! "
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" I will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" 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. "
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" Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point. "
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" 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. "
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" My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out. "
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Joy
Parents
Together
" Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.' "
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Entertainment
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" 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. "
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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 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. "
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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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Storm
" Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too. "
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Coming
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" 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. "
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