Tom Bissell Quotes

Games are getting more interesting. I mean, when we talk about books, they can be anything from a summer blockbuster to 'War and Peace' - well, games are the same. I think the creative side is catching up with the technology.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

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

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

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.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

I'm fascinated with video games, though I can't really play them. It's definitely an art form that intrigues me to no end, though.

Where the gaming world is going - and certainly Activision proved it by hiring me - is being willing to push and bend and move in a new direction of actually capturing the character and storytelling.

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.

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

I would say I'm a storyteller first, but game making is very wrapped up in how I think of story. If I were to have a story idea, and I decided to write a novel with it instead, I'd have to very consciously de-couple it from gamedom - for example, deliberately add in things that could not be represented in a game scene.

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.

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

I would love to make video games.

I don't know how video game narrative works.

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.

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

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

I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.

I'm a huge gamer.

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

Games aren't going to go away. BAFTA's got a category for games as an art form. The Academy should think about that, too.

I really just wanted to work on adventure games, so Pinkerton Road is our own little indie studio that's focused on that.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.