Hidetaka Miyazaki Quotes

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

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

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 always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

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.

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

I just wanted to make video games.

'Dark Souls' is my life's work; everything I came up with for 'Dark Souls III' is based on my personal preferences.

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.

If I had done a sequel to 'Day of the Tentacle,' there probably wouldn't have been a 'Full Throttle.' If I did a 'Full Throttle' sequel, there wouldn't have been a 'Grim Fandango.' It's important to make new stuff up.

I would love to make video games.

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

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

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.

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

Who I love reading is Jordan Mechner, who wrote 'Prince of Persia.' He put all his journals while he was writing 'Prince of Persia' online.

As to the differences between game work and novel writing, well, obviously the former is a lot less lonely - you're in and out of meetings all the time, bouncing stuff back and forth with the level designers, the art department, the animation team, so forth.

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

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.

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.'

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.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

I'm always game for creating a new character, and I liked the idea of putting something new into the 'Halo' universe.

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 don't know how video game narrative works.