” Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can’t we? “
” When we’re in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves: the most likely to help at a moment’s notice. The most likely to stick with a problem as long as it takes. To get up after failure and try again. “
” Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it’s always worth trying, and trying now. Gamers don’t sit around. “
” I’m always thinking about whatever game I’m working on. My brain works subconsciously on design pretty much every hour I’m awake. “
” I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize. “
” We’ve been playing games since humanity had civilization – there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It’s so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases. “
” If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it. “
” When parents or gamers ask me, ‘What’s the best game to play?’ I say that playing face-to-face is more beneficial than playing online. “
” The idea of the ‘lone gamer’ is really not true anymore. Up to 65 percent of gaming now is social, played either online or in the same room with people we know in real life. “
” I don’t want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world. “
” Game developers know that people have more fun when they’re in large groups. They feel more fired up when the challenges are more epic. “
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