Chris Crawford Quotes

I would love to make video games.

It was very easy to convince me to take on the job of character designer for 'Dragon Quest.'

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.

I'm a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

In any case, 'Nier: Automata' is not a perfect game. But I am proud of everything in it.

Designing characters for 'Dragon Quest' is fun but difficult work.

Nowadays, kids know how a programme like Merlin is made and how it works. But the show just seems to grow in popularity the more it goes on.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

Ninety percent of video game AI really is pretty damn bad. I think that's actually why it's so much fun to shoot things. Because the AI is so bad and the characters are so annoying.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.

The first game I actually bought myself with my own money was 'The Bard's Tale.'

Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

And because performing for a game involves real acting. The way they create a game is very similar now to how they create a film. I've always wanted to stretch my acting skills, and the timing being what it is, I couldn't say no.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

If there's a role for me in something in the future to do with 'The Last of Us,' absolutely I would do it, twice on Sunday.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

I remember when we were doing the first Dragon's Lair, I got really involved with coming up with all the little rooms and what was the danger in the room and going into it with bats and spiders and snakes.

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 basic idea for what became 'Epic Mickey' began at the Disney Think Tank.

My experience with video games is a far cry from 'WWE 2K17.' Did I ever aspire to be that character? Man, I just wanted to be a hero to kids. Whether it's a character in a video game, a movie or a TV series, it's an accolade that I'm greatly appreciative of.

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