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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 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! "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Hey, if we didn't overcharge for our product - guess what - people wouldn't have to buy used games. "

" We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do? "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" If we're going to reach a broader audience, we have to stop thinking about that audience strictly in terms of teenage boys or even teenage girls. We need to think about things that are relevant to normal humans and not just the geeks we used to be. "

" 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.' "

" My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it. "

" 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'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. "

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

" I have never been assigned a game, I have never made a game I didn't want to make. I've never done anything just to make somebody some money. "

" I will not support any game that doesn't express what I think is worthwhile. "

" 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. "

" I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. "

" 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. "

" 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. "