Marc Laidlaw Quotes

I would love to make video games.

We didn't do a square ball in 'Pong' because we thought it was cool. We did it because that was all we could do.

Our core market has been historically gamers and digital content creators such as car designers and movie makers.

Even though Raster Blaster was only a video game, I was learning about designing stuff. I got good at drawing.

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There's a misunderstanding that I've always tried to address straight on when this question comes up, which is that a 'Half-Life' story can somehow exist outside of a game. It can't. The story is created through the process of trying to figure out how to best use the features of the engine within the interesting set of constraints it poses.

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

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

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.

When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

It turns out that a lot of gamers love design, love to create in digital.

We are a game developer ourselves, and we built everything we need for our games. We share everything we built, including our game engine.

I'm a film maker who started on the Atari and then went onto the Commodore 64 and the Amiga. So I possibly have a different sensibility to people who didn't play games growing up.

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.

You can't build an engine that's just good for one type of game anymore. The economics don't work.

I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time.

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

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

We're growing into an entertainment medium as opposed to 'We make games. We make Mario jump.' We no longer have to focus so hard on the technical hurdles and can ask, as a player, why am I doing this? Why am I making these choices? Games that don't have that strong foundation stumble.