Eugene Jarvis Quotes

I would love to make video games.

I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.

I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.

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.

My earliest interest in game design came when I was in primary school, and my parents bought a Commodore 128 computer. I taught myself to write programs in BASIC, and then I made my own games.

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

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

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.

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

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.

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

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.

It is true that the gameplay for 'Orcs&Elves' was designed around the limitations of mobile phones, and that if we were starting completely from scratch for the DS, we would probably do things a bit differently, but the bottom line is that when we sit a random DS player down with the game, they have a lot of fun.

The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.

Our developers are helping and participating in the virtual economy by making games that aren't just fun, but which monetize as well.

I'm exploring this world of game development and GPU and getting involved in any capacity that I can to meet talented artists and programmers and developers. That's what you're gonna need to get a high-end experience done.

Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have.

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

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've been playing video games since I was 10 years old, and I think it's important to play games if you want to design them yourself.

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

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

Our job as the game creators or developers - the programmers, artists, and whatnot - is that we have to kind of put ourselves in the user's shoes. We try to see what they're seeing, and then make it, and support what we think they might think.