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" Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'm now officially in awe of guys who can crank out multiple books a month and maintain a high level of quality. Comics are completely different than any other medium I've dabbled in. "

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

" The concept of emergent gameplay is really exciting. That's when players are really crafting their own experience. So if you're clever and creative, you can do things that even developers of the game didn't know were possible. "

" 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. "

" I have got no problem with used games. I've bought plenty of used games. "

" 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. "

" Seriously, I don't know if people would really tell you this. But in my dream world, the people who work for you would say, 'Wow, I didn't know I could do that until I started working with that guy.' "

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

" 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. "

" Everyone at Junction Point has been inspired by the creative folks at Pixar and Disney Feature Animation to make 'entertainment for everyone.' "

" The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally. "

" Unfortunately, the rights to 'System Shock' trademark and copyright are both up in the air. "

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

" 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. "

" 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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" Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games. "

" 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. "

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

" The heart of the gameplay is still about choice and consequence, which is what I've been doing since the '80s. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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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" Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse. "