Margaret Stohl Quotes

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.

I just wanted to make video games.

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

When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

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

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

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.

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.

Games are another place to find work, not only the voice stuff but in the motion capture stuff. It's exciting work.

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 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.

What comes next? Super Mario 128? Actually, that's what I want to do.

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

What I really want to do is be in the forefront of game development once again myself.

I'm in the business to make games - I love entertaining people.

I've never made a game for a high-definition platform. That's definitely something I'm interested in.

I'm a gamer at heart and always have been. I'm also a filmmaker.

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

Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that's when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don't know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.

Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art.