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  • Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets. -- Jimmy Breslin
  • It is very important to lead the field and innovate in game design. -- John Romero
  • 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. -- Trent Reznor
  • 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. -- Tim Schafer
  • Keep it simple, stupid. Good game design shouldn't keep you looking at the manual but should have enough depth where you feel like you bring something new to the game every time you play. -- Rob Manuel
  • 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. -- Brendan Myers
  • I am tremendously excited to introduce a unique 'Metal Gear Solid' experience to a new audience of gamers as well as collaborate with my mentor in game design, Mr. Miyamoto, on 'Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes' for Nintendo GameCube. -- Hideo Kojima
  • 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. -- Jane Jensen
  • There's established gaming IP that's coming from console to mobile, which is interesting. Everything is converging a little bit toward mobile devices in the living room. On the casual side, the graphics and animation and game design and all of those variables are improving. -- Chris DeWolfe
  • Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets -- Jimmy Breslin
  • I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer. -- Charles Stross
  • Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we? -- Jane McGonigal
  • I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
  • At Sir-Tech I went through the ranks, almost like an apprenticeship. I was very fortunate. The industry was smaller then, and I was able to work alongside some amazing game designers. -- Brenda Brathwaite
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The hardware manufacturers, game designers, cable companies and computer companies and, in fact, film studios are going to ensure that this thing marches on. They know that they are going to make an enormous amount of money from it. -- Thomas Dolby
  • 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
  • Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair. -- David Crane
  • This is the entertainment industry, so game designers have to have a creative mind and also have to be able to stand up against the marketing people at their company - otherwise they cannot be creative. There are not that many people who fit that description. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
  • The last 10% of game design is really what separates the good games from the great games. It's what I call the clean-up phase of game design. Here's where you make sure all the elements look great. The game should look good, feel good, sound good, play good. -- Garry Kitchen
  • 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
  • Rules of Play is an exhaustive, clear, cogent, and complete resource for understanding games and game design. Salen and Zimmerman describe an encyclopedia of game design issues, techniques, and attributes. In particular, they analyze the elements that can make a game experience richer, more interesting, more emotional, more meaningful, and, ultimately, more successful. It should be the first stop you make when learning about game design. -- Nathan Shedroff
  • Now with the Internet, a celebrity is fair game, and it's all designed to sell advertising space. -- Randy Quaid
  • I'm always thinking about whatever game I'm working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I'm awake. -- Jane McGonigal
  • Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education. -- Chuck Palahniuk
  • Whenever I design any variant, or when anybody sends me one, I always say if at all possible within the context of the game don't have two home supply centers touching each other. -- Fred Davis
  • 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. -- Luis von Ahn
  • You all know that each title in the Chronicles has a chess theme; that's partly because of the overall design of the Chronicles themselves - the game of chess as an analogue of the game of life. -- Dorothy Dunnett
  • Like Christians, Soccerians argue that you should not judge the essence of their faith by the loopy activities of its followers. But the Beautiful Game is in fact quite the opposite. It is badly designed and riddled with flaws. -- Craig Brown
  • The Australian Government's decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game; eliminate waste; and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future. -- Kevin Rudd
  • I have never seen a game's graphics look so sharp and clean. The sound design for the game is also unique on the Xbox. The memory on this system allowed us to provide the user with 5.1 Dolby surround sound for home theatre owners. -- Don Bluth
  • Gaming in general is a male thing. It isn't that gaming is designed to exclude women. Everybody who's tried to design a game to interest a large female audience has failed. And I think that has to do with the different thinking processes of men and women. -- Gary Gygax
  • Survivor' is a game that's designed to be played with strangers, people with varied backgrounds from all parts of the country. The greatest part is that you can go into the game as anyone you want, hold any job you desire, and portray any personality you can think of. -- Jenna Morasca
  • Game design isn't just a technological craft. It's a twenty-first-century way of thinking and leading. -- Jane McGonigal
  • I wanna design a video game where you'd have to take care of all the people shot in all the other video games. -- Demetri Martin
  • I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes. -- Ani DiFranco
  • Don't just buy a new video game, make one. Don't just download the latest app, help design it. Don't just play on your phone, program it. -- Barack Obama
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