Shigeru Miyamoto Quotes

I would love to make video games.

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

This is a whole new world to explore as a developer to go in and learn these new gameplay mechanics, to learn what it's like to actually control a character from a top-down, 'God's eye' view, and to figure out how the game camera can be controlled by the player's head.

We have spent quite a bit of time considering a good space game, and I can't really say anything at this point, but we are definitely still interested in that area.

A game's concept is one of its most important assets. I feel that we must aim to satisfy both beginners and experts, and that hasn't changed since I was making 'Kirby' games.

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

I had a friend who had done the cinematics for 'Splinter Cell: Conviction,' so he kind of indoctrinated me into the series. I did a bunch of temp stuff for him - I roughed stuff in the game for him, playing about nine characters - just so he had some character templates to work from.

I think you have to serve a lot of masters when you're doing a video game: you're not just telling a linear story or doing something that's all action.

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