Kim Swift Quotes

Videogames make you feel like you're actually doing something. Your brain processes the tiered game achievements as real-life achievements. Every time you get to the next level, hot jets of reward chemical coat your brain in a lathery foam, and it seems like you're actually accomplishing stuff.

Writing is mentally stimulating; it's like a puzzle that makes you think all the time.

What makes me happy is just keeping my brain challenged and stimulated and on its toes.

Before I got into electronic games, I was making table-top games.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

I think it's good to stimulate your mind.

If you have a therapist who agrees with your every word, then your brain isn't getting proper exercise.

People often say that videogames made by Western developers are somehow different in terms of taste for the players, in comparison with Japanese games. I think that means that the Western developers and Japanese developers, they are good at different fields.

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

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

I feel like I'd be good at 'Password.' Or 'Pyramid.'

I think, actually, any morality system that rewards only the extremes is a flawed system. Players don't approach life that way, they don't approach games that way, and they shouldn't be trained to approach games that way. They shouldn't be in the 'Star Wars' mode where, 'I've got to choose every good option.'

How we learn has nothing to do with how brilliant we are.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

If you're going to train your body, it would be a really good thing to also train your brain.

We all go to the gym, and we're thinking about how we look and what we're eating, but our brain is a muscle, and you have to train it!

When you engage your brain, it just keeps getting fatter and richer and wonderful.

I can do some of the number puzzles.

If it's a cliche to say that intellectual curiosity keeps your mind sharp, your senses alert, and your capabilities cutting-edge, that's because it's true.