Don Bluth Quotes

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

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

We believe that creating a 'Mario' game is a special endeavor.

I had a friend who had done the cinematics for 'Splinter Cell: Conviction,' so he kind of indoctrinated me into the series. I did a bunch of temp stuff for him - I roughed stuff in the game for him, playing about nine characters - just so he had some character templates to work from.

Game development combines all this disparate art stuff I'd been doing into one single thing that I could use to say very specific stuff.

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

I really wanted to make a dungeon crawler, but this game came out, 'Legend of Grimrock 2,' which was, like, the perfect dungeon crawler. It basically destroyed the genre for me, and no way could I make a game that good in that genre.

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

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

I just wanted to make video games.

The very first game I worked on was for DreamWorks Interactive's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park.'

I studied video game design. The one thing I knew for sure about myself is I didn't want to study acting.

It turns out that a lot of gamers love design, love to create in digital.

It's true that I'm sad about not being involved in the development of 'Dark Souls II,' because I've worked on 'Demon's Souls' and 'Dark Souls'' development for the past five years.

I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.

I don't just write a script, and then someone takes it away and builds a game. I am continually getting input in order to create a big suspension field to hold the gameplay together so that the gamers aren't doing arbitrary tasks, so that they are doing things that seem meaningful.

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 think 'Overlord' has definitely benefited because I work with every single level designer, and working where we have space to tell the story. That's what it's all about - getting writers and storytellers involved in the team and being a back and forth process.

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.

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.

I definitely think my work comes from things that I liked as a kid, and things I still like now. Monsters and magic and museums and movies, a lot of things that start with 'M' for some reason.