Jane Jensen Quotes

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

I'm kind of a retired software engineer. I don't write code anymore.

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.

I'm thinking of going to programming school. Learn how to sit down at any computer and learn to do anything on it. That's all I have left and have interest in.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art.

Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.

I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days.

The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent.

I would love to make video games.

I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

I would be better at my job if I were technical.

I have a couple of games I've wanted to make in the 'Tobuscus Adventures' universe.

I don't program or code or anything like that.

I kind of 'code-sketch,' where I get started with a project by actually writing the code for it and getting something up on the screen. Then I play around with it and see if it's any fun and change the parts that aren't.

I'm in the business to make games - I love entertaining people.

Every time I can find another engineer to add to the Chrome OS platform, I'm going to hire him.