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" I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons! "
Warren Spector
Master
Thesis
Wrote
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" The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future. "
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" 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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" Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse. "
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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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Me
" 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. "
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Experience
" 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. "
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Problem
You
" I do not believe in the concept of good and evil in my personal life, in the real world. I just don't believe it. I never try to judge. "
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Good And Evil
Evil
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. "
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Adventure
Teacher
" 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
" I'm a big believer in pushing things too far and forcing people to pull you back. "
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You
Back
" 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. "
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Game
" Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air. "
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System
Up
" 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. "
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Place
Here
Company
" The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s. "
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Doing
Been
Choice
" The Wii U is pretty cool, and the thing that I'm most intrigued about it is it's the first gaming platform that actually is exploiting the second screen. "
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First
Most
Pretty
" I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan. "
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Fan
Nintendo
Geek
" Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too. "
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Developers
Coming
Gamers
" 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.' "
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Said
Copy
Games
" 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. "
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Me
Good
Done
" 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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iPhone
Alone
Friends
" Finney is about the best writer of time travel stories ever, and I adore time travel stories - have to make a time travel game someday! "
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Time
Best
Travel
" $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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Courage
Scared
Much
" 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. "
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Want
Right
Reach
" Used games allow more people, specifically younger people, to become game fans because of the lower price point. "
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Game
People
Price
" Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right? "
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Earth
Pressure
Amazing
" 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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Choices
Me
Story
" 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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History
Myself
Looking Back
" 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?' "
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Why
Audience
Toy
" 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! "
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Me
Adventure
Days
" I would love to take 'Ultimata Underworld' and literally update the graphics. "
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Graphics
Would
Update