Luis von Ahn Quotes

Turns out, what I love doing is making games. Not hyping games or trying to sell a lot of copies. I just want to experiment and develop and think and tinker and tweak.

I'm a game designer, so I care about the whole experience.

I would love to make video games.

I've always wanted to get involved with designing a video game.

In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it.

I think you need to understand games to write them. There's a learning curve, just like there's a learning curve in anything. It's not precisely the same as film or television, but you're using the same muscles.

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

I have a couple of games I've wanted to make in the 'Tobuscus Adventures' universe.

I'm in the business to make games - I love entertaining people.

We believe that creating a 'Mario' game is a special endeavor.

I would play games long enough to discover what games were doing and how they were doing it. And then I'd spend the rest of my time building.

I enjoy the process of adding elaboration into games and like to communicate with users through the details I create.

It's true that I'm sad about not being involved in the development of 'Dark Souls II,' because I've worked on 'Demon's Souls' and 'Dark Souls'' development for the past five years.

I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.

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.'

I try not so much to create new characters and worlds but to create new game-play experiences.

Well, for over a year now at my desk, a prototype program of Luigi and Mario has been running on my monitor. We've been thinking about the game, and it may be something that could work on a completely new game system.

Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

I like entertainment and think mastery is good, though I don't feel like a master. If a theme means having a story that's legible, then that's certainly what we do. But we don't treat design as an add-on layer.

If I had done a sequel to 'Day of the Tentacle,' there probably wouldn't have been a 'Full Throttle.' If I did a 'Full Throttle' sequel, there wouldn't have been a 'Grim Fandango.' It's important to make new stuff up.

I always try and come up with a clear theme when I'm making a videogame.

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.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

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.

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.