David Baszucki Quotes

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.

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.

Coming from a programming background, I have a good sense of what's feasible and what's not feasible in a game.

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.

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.

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

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.

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.

When I'm making video games today, I want people to be entertained. I am always thinking, How are people going to enjoy playing the games we are making today? And as long as I can enjoy something other people can enjoy it, too.

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.

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

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

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

I would love to make video games.

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.

In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

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

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.

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.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

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.

In this beginner-friendly book, called 'Learn to Program with Minecraft,' you will learn how to do cool things in Minecraft using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is needed.

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

Unreal has to be an engine for everyone who wants to build a major game.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.