Quotes from Warren Spector

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!

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

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.'

I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'

In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.

On the small scale, 'Ico,' I think, actually delivered a small new thing: holding a character's hand and really feeling like your job is to rescue this person, and establishing a personal connection.

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.

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

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

In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.

I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.

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

When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

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

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.

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

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

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!

My greatest joy is seeing parents and kids playing Disney 'Epic Mickey' together, handing the controllers back and forth, helping each other out.

I said to myself as Junction Point embarked on the Epic Mickey journey that, worst case, we'd be 'a footnote in Disney history.' Looking back on it, I think we did far better than that.

I've always said - I've been making games for twenty years, and from the first day I got in this business, I've been saying, 'All I have to do is sell one more copy than I have to, to get somebody to fund my next one.'

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.

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!

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.