Warren Spector Quotes

American - Designer October 2, 1955

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.

Storm Spring Place Here Frankly Because Company Felt Left Out Thing

I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.

Point Independent Started January Developer Junction

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

Making Got Before Games Electronic

I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

Cartoons Thesis Master Wrote

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

Entertainment Everyone Creative Make Animation Disney Feature Folks Junction Pixar Been Has-Been Inspired Point

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

Gamers Up Coming Developers Ages Grown Everywhere Grown-Up Too

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!

Best Time Game Travel Adore Someday Time Travel About Ever Make Stories Writer

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

Heart Doing Choice About Consequence Been Since Still Which

I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.

You Night Sunglasses Know Coats Trench Adult Games Guys Make Wearing

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

You People Back Things Believer Big Believer Forcing Pull Pushing Big Far Too

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.

Character Who Lost Cartoons Disney Handed Interesting Character Oswald Universal Basically Him Interesting Over Rights

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

Game Support Think Will Worthwhile Any Express I Think

We're not going to do a Facebook game aimed at 35-year old women about farming.

Women Game Old Farming Facebook Old Women About Going

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.

People Think Winner Enough Bookstore Enough People Gotta I Think Like Open Right

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

Good Great Think Pretty Great One Marvel Pretty Good Been Ever Games Honestly Some

My first encounter with video games was pretty conventional. I was travelling with my parents - we used to take long cross country trips in the United States every summer - and we went into a restaurant where there happened to be a Pong machine, and I was... a lot of quarters went into that Pong machine, let's just say.

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.

People Never Loved Cartoons Outgrow Along Did Guess Hit Most Sure Why

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.

Video Games My Own Writing Own Adventures Discovered Dragons Dungeons Worlds Creating Games Playing Started Video

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

Cool Me Gaming Doing Cool Thing Could Done Only Thing Things

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.

Long Time Long Time Want No Interest Been Games Interest Make

We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does.

You Gaming Situation Your Consequences Interact Choice Does See Set Up

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

People Product Our Buy Hey Games Guess Used

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

Problem Got Games Used Bought No Problem Plenty

I conceived the original 'Deus Ex' and was the project director on the game.

Game Director Project Original Conceived

I think there's always room for more innovation and new things.

Think New Innovation New Things Always I Think More Room Things

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.

Best World Care More Hardware Nintendo Standpoint About don't Care Games Much Some

$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.

Courage About Scared Little Resources Companies Games Lot Million Much Spend

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.

Money Game Never Done Assigned Anything Been Just Made Make Some Somebody Want

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

Game Never Own Tell Empowering Explicitly About Made Players Story

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

Time Movies Cartoons Time Passes Differently Passes

Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.

You Walk Game Talk Every How Run Teach Use

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.

Me Situation Something Most Bug Celebration Designer Developers Figuring Intend How Kind Out Player

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