Markus Persson Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

I would love to make video games.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

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 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.

Game design has always been a secondary passion. I don't know how to program, though, so I'm at this strange crossroads where I'm like, 'I wonder if I can convince people who know what they're doing to hear me out on one of my ideas.'

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

I just wanted to make video games.

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

I enjoy the process of adding elaboration into games and like to communicate with users through the details I create.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

When we considered what to do with the graphics capability of the Wii, we put more attention and focus on the ability to create new experiences rather than the quality of the graphics.

I think the journey of making a game... we want to enjoy that process.

It's true that I'm sad about not being involved in the development of 'Dark Souls II,' because I've worked on 'Demon's Souls' and 'Dark Souls'' development for the past five years.