Warren Spector

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

“Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have 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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“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 want content that is relevant to my life, that is relevant to me, that is set in the real world.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I've got a PowerPoint deck that I use for internal presentations, and there's a slide on it that asks, 'What percentage of your game is combat versus exploration versus puzzle solving versus platforming,' and I refuse to answer that question.”

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

“I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!”

“Once we can do Pixar-quality graphics rendered in real time with interactivity, I could see games costing $200 million to make, and all of a sudden you have to sell a lot of games just to break even, so I'm a little worried someone's going to do that.”

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