Randy Pitchford Quotes

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

When I am starting a new game, I have to program it for the Apple, because I want to get all of the markets.

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

I can move my characters through it easily, because I understand the background; I've really studied it.

I have been wildly enthused about gaming since I was younger, and a career path I chose not to go down but did really consider was getting into programming and game design.

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.

As a game creator, I'm not 100% satisfied when looking back at the previous game that I released.

Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.

It was, like, two mobile games I released. They did pretty well, and after I made those two games, I was like, 'Man, I want to make another game, but I want to make this game for PlayStation and Xbox and PC.' I was like, 'You know what? Forget making the video game for Xbox, PlayStation and PC. How about I make my own console?'

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

I will keep working on different aspects of my games. It's not so easy, and I need to work on every stroke.

People sometimes ask me what I did when I was hired at HAL. The answer is that I was a programmer. And an engineer. And a designer. And I marketed our games. I also ordered food. And I helped clean up. And, it was all great fun.

I don't think I've ever worked on anything that wasn't way bigger than we expected. That's all the way back to working on fighting games at Paradox. Everything seems to balloon when more and more people get involved.

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.

While most game developers are focused entirely on what they're shipping in a year or two, a technology developer like Epic has to look much further out and plan many years ahead.

Great games are played, not made.

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

I've gone on record to say that I'm proud of the PC version of Daikatana and I stand behind that.

Game design isn’t just a technological craft. It’s a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading.

It's important to have a plan, a big picture. You can deviate from it or change it completely, but it gives you something to work for.

Work backward from your goal.

Consider the bigger picture.....think things through and fully commit!

Not that I'd really been planning on keeping the attack secret; it had just been an option I'd wanted to keep open if I could.

The biggest weakness with my game is that I have fun with the galleries. I just love a gallery.

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things.