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" I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005. "
Warren Spector
Started
Point
January
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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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" Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games. "
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" Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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" 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. "
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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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Up
You
" 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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Credit
Development
Effort
" 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
" 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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Time
Think
" In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. "
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Time
Differently
" I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons! "
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Master
Thesis
Wrote
" The 'DuckTales' ensemble is clearly critical. There's the core set of characters - Scrooge, Webby, Launchpad, Huey, Dewey and Louie... Plus there's Gyro and Duckworth and Mrs. Beakley and so on. The cast is huge. "
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Core
Cast
Plus
" I think there's always room for more innovation and new things. "
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Think
New Things
Innovation
" 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. "
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Want
Been
Games
" 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 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! "
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Stand
School
Lucky
" My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it. "
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Wife
Comic
Some
" I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics. "
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Graphics
Would
Update
" The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally. "
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Original
Business
Team
" I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back. "
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Big
You
Back
" 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. "
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World
Best
Care
" 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. "
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Rights
Lost
" 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. "
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Deserve
Will
Need
" 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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Through
You
Game
" 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
" 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! "
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Think
Time
Size
" Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse. "
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Men
Mickey Mouse
Relationship
" 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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Away
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Me