We set up a situation and let you interact with it and see the consequences of your choice. That's what gaming does. Warren Spector More Quotes by Warren Spector More Quotes From Warren Spector Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games are dialogues - and dialogue requires both parties to take the floor once in a while Warren Spector party writing book Ultimately, all I wanted was for players to feel like they were in the real world. I wanted them to be able to apply real world common sense to the problems confronting them, and I thought recreating real world locations would encourage that kind of thinking. There's also just a real power, a real thrill, when you fire up a game and see a place you've been or want to go, and then get to do all the stuff you WANT to do there but know you'll get arrested if you try! If that isn't the stuff of fantasy - far more than exploring some goofy dwarven mine or alien spaceship - I don't know what is! Warren Spector real player thinking Good stories are constructed, not found. Warren Spector good-story found stories Half-Life is the finest implementation of a game on rails anybody has ever done Warren Spector done half games 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. Warren Spector teenage girl thinking I'm sad but excited for the future. Warren Spector im-sad excited As the story unfolded, the cast of characters changed to match it. Warren Spector changed stories character I'm sure a lot of the hardcore folks are going to be up in arms and I'm really looking forward to getting into that discussion with them. I don't believe I'm compromising on my gameplay ideals at all. [But] any artist who doesn't want his or her work in front of the largest audience possible is nuts. Warren Spector artist nuts believe I remember having some problems with [the Deus Ex theme] when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out how to tell [Alex Brandon] I wanted changes. But then I noticed that I couldn't get it out of my mind. I was whistling or humming it to myself all the time. So I just kept my mouth shut and let it be. I think it's a highly addictive tune Warren Spector mind trying thinking Creating a really believable world is just insanely hard Warren Spector believable creating world For me, the cool thing is doing things that could only be done in gaming. Warren Spector doing cool me gaming In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards. Warren Spector cartoons movies time-passes time Gamers are everywhere, coming in all ages and genders, and developers have grown up, too. Warren Spector gamers everywhere coming up Kids, adults, men, women, everybody has a relationship with Mickey Mouse. Warren Spector mickey-mouse women relationship men 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. Warren Spector grow try understand rock-and-roll 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. Warren Spector feel never history way 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. Warren Spector iphone alone friends success The reality, for me at least, is that the finest recreation of a paper game, played on computer, pales in comparison with the actual, face-to-face experience. Warren Spector game me experience reality I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do! Warren Spector yourself you win-or-lose world 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. Warren Spector video-games restaurant parents long
