John Mackey Quotes

Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play.

I find that each job that I do, the thing that gets me there is when I'm not smarter than it, when I don't know instantly how that thing is made. Because if I do, then it's boring. Or it would be simple.

Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned.

I want a painting to be difficult to do. The more obstacles, obstructions, problems - if they don't overwhelm - the better. I would like to feel that I am involved at any stage of the painting with all its moments, not just this 'now' moment where a superficial grace is so available.

I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions - for the fun of it - then one day you'll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

People are tired of simple things. They want to be challenged.

I'm attracted to playing things that I find difficult, just because it's a journey that is much more interesting.

I think I have a lot of learning to do, but that's what the game is for.

You never stop learning from this game. That's the crazy thing.

If you do anything well, it becomes enjoyable. To keep enjoying something, you need to increase its complexity.

How deep is your game?

That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It's why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a world.

The harder routes you climb, the more interesting the climbing gets and the more crazy moves you are forced to figure out.

Everyone who plays this game wants to continue to improve.

I love games, and I'll play any. Games are a way of training ourselves to be heavily involved without being serious.

Once you've made peace with the fact that you're hardly ever going to work on anything that you're actually good at, the only thing that you can do is get good very fast on everything you have to do.

In a game, I'm locked in. I maybe notice three rows in the stands the arena over, and that's it.

I love any project where I get to push myself and learn new things.

You only learn if you're given a crack at things.

There are a lot of games out there these days that you either know how to play it or don't, or if you spend enough time pounding away at it, you're going to beat it eventually.

I love to learn new things, even though I might not master it. That takes a lot of time.

What I find the most interesting about games is the feeling of accomplishment. I think this is an emotion that cinema can't do and books can't do. You feel like you've personally accomplished something. You feel you get better at something.

There are different games for different people and different expectations. Sometimes you want a great story, and sometimes you don't. I don't believe we should have stories in every single game. Sometimes it doesn't matter.

I think it's exciting to have a role with multiple layers.