103 Quotes by Warren Spector

I have no interest in guys who wear armor and swing big swords.

I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.

I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.

In the electronic game world, I know I have a reputation for doing the cyberpunk thing, and for doing the serious epic fantasy thing, but if you go back to when I was a kid, I've been a Disney fan all my life.

In papergaming, players can look at a character sheet of their own creation and see all of their skills, right there, in black and white.

I remember on Deus Ex there was one programmer - Alex Durand, a guy who still works for us - he decided he was going to get through the game without ever using a weapon. I would never think to do that. And that's fine.

I often get painted as the guy who's trying to tell other people what to make and what to like, and that's really not my goal, but I believe so passionately that games can be more than a lot of people think they can.

Gamers both demand and deserve novelty. They need something new. As a game developer, one of my rules is there will be at least one thing in every game that I worked on that no one on the planet has seen before.

The Junction Point journey is over. To all those who've asked, or want to ask, I'm sad but excited for the future.