Charlie Brooker Quotes

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

I still like to play games that have a beginning, an end and a story.

All video games are games, obviously. They're designed. They're digital. They have rules; they give an audience some type of vicarious experience.

It's weird that, in a way, by writing about video games, I get to develop them, too.

You don't really want to talk about 'Duke' in terms of, how many levels are there, how many guns does it have, how many monsters… It's got everything it needs in terms of that, but it's always been about the experience.

You can even express movies and poetry using video games. For those reasons, I've decided to create stories through video games.

I played video games for years. I immersed myself in them. They're so beautiful. They have these gorgeous imaginary landscapes. And they were just very dear to me.

While films are a very visual and emotional artistic medium, video games take it one step further into the realm of a unique personal experience.

I love games. I honestly can't imagine working with any other medium. I guess it would be akin to an artist who's doing commercial art and then goes into education, but it really frees you up to do all other kinds of creative stuff.

'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

Videogames are indeed design: They're sophisticated virtual machines that echo the mechanical systems inside cars.

There is a definite argument to be made that videogames are becoming an art form put together by artists of different types.

Video games are a huge, incredibly popular, world-transforming medium.

Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun.

I mostly associated video game storytelling with unforgivable clumsiness, irredeemable incompetence - and suddenly, I was finding the aesthetic and formal concerns I'd always associated with fiction: storytelling, form, the medium, character. That kind of shocked me.

Often the art in a video game is like glorified Thomas Kinkade, but some of it is genuinely enchanting and compelling.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

I know that movies are basically meant to be entertainment, but I'm not that interested in entertainment.

A lot of people say video games can be stifling. Older people say, 'We had to go outside, and we had to make up stories!' For me, video games broadened my horizons. Playing 'Golden Axe,' I was those characters. I imagined myself being in that world, so honestly, it was a really good thing.

Video games are an exciting medium. The creativity of design, the technology and the interaction represent the best of American innovation.

We have a whole industry which is gigantic: games. Games is very successful. It's its own art form, though, and it's not the same as a linear narrative.

I see games... as the ultimate combination of art and technology.

Video games are the first new artistic medium since television, but they are more different from television than television was from cinema; they are the newest new thing since the arrival of the movies just over a century ago.

Any established media, such as literature, music, or film, offers a wide variety of experiences touching emotions from the very primal to the deeply complex. No matter who the audience are or what kind of mood they are in, there will always be something right for them. Video games, as a fast-growing new medium, is on its way to catching up.