Kurt Warner Quotes

I use colors to bring fine points of story and character.

The letters were universally complimentary, and we designers loved hearing that our games were being enjoyed, but if they weren't sending us a picture of their screens most of those writers would have spent their time playing the game rather than writing letters.

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

I knew becoming an analyst would allow me to see the game from a new perspective.

I've always been a very visual creator. I make mood boards or sit with coloured pencils and scribble and try and figure out what I'm trying to work through musically.

As a player, you want to play a lot of games.

I don't differentiate game design and script; it is one and only document. I think that one of the biggest problem with storytelling in games is that people tend to separate story and interactivity. Both should be conceived as one entity, each using the other.

I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from a camera angle, or the booth.

Whenever I write the scenarios for my games, I don't necessarily envision them being liked or being wonderful for everyone.

What I would love is for people to see some of the stories I want to tell.

I did commentary with Excalibur. It is an extremely, extremely difficult job. It gave me a whole new appreciation to how on point you need to be and how careful you need to because I was a almost like a color aspect of it.

I also write stories and want to show these stories to the world; someday someone might want to direct them.

We believe that we can use interactivity to create meaningful games. Games with emotions and virtual actors telling you something. Resonating with you as a human being, giving you food for thought. We don't need to deliver messages or whatever, just need to create a moment in time that will leave an imprint in your mind.

One thing that probably is unique at Activision is that we really spend a lot of time up front with our audiences, and in big quantities and with a very thoughtful process, to really try and draw out from them what it is that they would like to play. So we have a pretty good sense going in what the expectation of the audience is.

A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.

What's the point of having weak enemies? They just waste your time.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

You turn the computer into the storyteller and the player into the audience, like in the old days when the storyteller would actually respond to the audience, rather than just having the audience respond to the storyteller. I had an enormous amount of fun, actually, working on that.

Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... or, um... blown... blowed out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had, uh... blown out.

You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees [a cutscene]. I felt if players saw the cutscenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I've decided against having them.

Reality is broken and we need to make it work more like a game.

Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. To such an extent indeed that one day, finding myself at the deathbed of a woman who had been and still was very dear to me, I caught myself in the act of focusing on her temples and automatically analyzing the succession of appropriately graded colors which death was imposing on her motionless face.

Gamification is as important as social and mobile.*

I still come closest to success with drawing. When I use color the results are dubious, for these painfully gained experiences bear less fruit.

Money doesn't motivate, but stats do.