Todd Howard Quotes

There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.

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.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That's what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games - nothing like saving the world.

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

The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.

'Syndicate' is technically the first game I worked on.

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

Sometimes it's not always about what you can see or hear but what's under the hood of a game that's most impressive. Between those thousands and thousands of lines of code, magic happens. Sometimes the most amazing feats of gaming wizardry happen without you even noticing.

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

Our developers will make great games for whatever high-end platforms exist.

It was, like, two mobile games I released. They did pretty well, and after I made those two games, I was like, 'Man, I want to make another game, but I want to make this game for PlayStation and Xbox and PC.' I was like, 'You know what? Forget making the video game for Xbox, PlayStation and PC. How about I make my own console?'

We were doing mobile games before the iPhone. We were doing free-to-play with 'Quake Live.' We wanted to do massively multiplayer stuff in the early days but didn't have the resources to do it.

I am now very interested in computer technology as it is used currently to make games. I think this technology is very powerful and could be used in new ways.

God of War' was a 40-60 person team. It was a lot of very different, very passionate, very crazy people.

Being a director, I've had the privilege of heading a PS3 launch title. Looking back, I think the PS4 has made the development cycle much easier.

Game creation keeps on expanding, just like the Universe. That is why I keep making games

My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games.

There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

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

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

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.

With ZeniMax, they have a lot to be proud of. 'Fallout 3' is one of the favorite games of so many of our people. But they had zero overlap with the things we do. We do the best shooters in the world. It's a perfect hand and glove fit. We started talking about this before they rolled out 'Fallout 3'. We watch them roll it out worldwide.

To this day, I run into people all the time that say, whether it was 'Doom', or maybe even more so 'Quake' later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology.