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" In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life. "

Warren Spector

My Life

Game

World

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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. "

" 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 have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore. "

Warren Spector

Alien

Earth

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

" I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords. "

" 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. "

" For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future. "

" 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

" 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. "

" The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices. "

" 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

" Honestly, there have been some pretty good Marvel games, but I don't think there's ever been a great one. "

" My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out. "

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

" I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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 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. "

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