Occupation: Video Game Designer Birth: January 20, 1960
Computer and video games represent one of the most important new media developments of this generation. Unlike many other forms of entertainment they….
The big thing is that we have five percent or less of the hardcore players actively entertaining the other ninety-five percent..
The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does..
Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare..
A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much ….
I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully….
And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity..
I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it..
No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players..
Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!.
I typically go overboard when I research new projects..
I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game..
Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a s….
It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity..
Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game..
It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of diff….
Everybody has a different definition of the good side..
The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things y….
Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is th….
Well, I think the camera freedom is something that we've resisted for a long time and feels like probably the biggest stretch. But it has some huge b….
We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still intereste….