Game Designer Quotes & Sayings

I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game. — Roberta Williams

Rushdie is a hostage. — Don DeLillo

I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga. The profession of game designer was created really recently. If it didn't exist, I'd probably be making anime. — Satoshi Tajiri

I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in the coffin. — Chris Avellone

If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it. — Max Levchin

The moderns, then, after they have abolished slavery, have three prejudices to contend against, which are less easy to attack and far less easy to conquer than the mere fact of servitude: the prejudice of the master, the prejudice of the race, and the prejudice of color. — Alexis De Tocqueville

I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is. Someone who designs projects to make people happy. That's a game designer's purpose. — Toru Iwatani

My own gut feeling is that everyone's psychic ... and it's so ingrained a part of us that we very rarely notice it. The talent may be largely preventative, and that keeps it from being noticed, too. — Stephen King

I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect. — Brenda Brathwaite

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.' — Dave Morris

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

I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will. — Shigeru Miyamoto

Were men and women ever really just friends? — Jaycee Ford

Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it. — James Paul Gee

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry. — Margaret Stohl

Design isn't about getting your way, it's not about being a great genius or auteur who is followed by everyone else on the team, and it's not even about doing a great job of communicating your vision to the rest of the team. Design isn't about you; it is about the project. Working as a game designer is about collaborating with the rest of the team, compromising, and above all listening. — Jeremy Gibson

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer. — Jane Jensen

I'd advise all aspiring game designers not to aim for money when developing a game, because unfortunately it is very rare for game designers to be able to earn a living by developing analog games. — Klaus Teuber

A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background. — Sid Meier

I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player, — David Cage

No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players, — Will Wright

I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. — Charles Stross

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids. — Steve Jobs

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! — Karl Lagerfeld

We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all. — John Lennon

A method of schooling founded by the Italian educator Maria Montessori that emphasizes collaborative, explorative learning, and whose alumni include Google's founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page; Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales; video-game designer Will Wright; Amazon's founder, Jeff Bezos; chef Julia Child; and rap impresario Sean Combs. — Daniel Coyle

I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I'm always game for that. — Brad Goreski

I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize. — Jane McGonigal

We don't have a clear path forward, and that's been the case for feminism since the 18th century, when the idea of the rights of women actually began. — Erica Jong

I look placid, you see, that's why people think I'm fine. Inside I worry a lot. — Maeve Binchy

As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not only for enjoying narratives and learning from them but also for creating them. In the same way that your mind sees an abstract pattern and resolves it into a face, your imagination sees a pattern of events and resolves it into a story. — Jonathan Gottschall

I give the world thoughtful observations and considered theses, and it gives me back a dozen Kardashians. You know what's going to happen to my library when I sell it? Nothing. Flat nothing. It will probably go to some interior designer who will tell her client how authentic it is. But I'll be damned if a single one of the books are cracked open by their video-game-playing fucktard children! — Jade Chang

Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we? — Jane McGonigal

Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion. — David Crane

We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed. — David Crane