Game Programming Quotes

I'd been playing everything and decided that this was something I maybe wanted to make a career out of. I knew where some companies were, but I saw the name 'Bethesda, Maryland' on 'Wayne Gretzky Hockey 3.'

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.

Game creation keeps on expanding, just like the Universe. That is why I keep making games

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

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

Game Boy is something that I would like to make something for.

In 1978, I entered the Tokyo Institute of Technology. I would have loved to study videogame programming, but nobody was teaching it then. So I went to classes on engineering and early computer science.

The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

When you're dealing with a new platform, the real trick is just getting the game running.

We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.

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.

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.

The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.

There's a building kit for simple games. But more advanced users can program complex things with our script capabilities, which is built on Lua - the same language used in World of Warcraft.

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.

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?'

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

Don't just buy a new video game. Make one.

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

You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

We were doing mobile games before the iPhone. We were doing free-to-play with 'Quake Live.' We wanted to do massively multiplayer stuff in the early days but didn't have the resources to do it.

My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games.

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

I respect Shigeru Miyamoto, so there will be a lot of mushrooms in 'Metal Gear Solid 3.' But you cannot eat turtles.

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