Warren Spector

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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I wrote my master's thesis on cartoons!

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

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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!

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

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

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

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I was lucky enough to go to an all-boys prep school in upstate New York that had a film program, so we had access to 16mm Bolex cameras, Nagra sound recorders, Arriflex cameras. We even had an Oxberry animation stand!

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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.

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

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Quotes by Warren Spector