John Romero Quotes

When public figures think they can open a business even though they've got no business experience, it's a bad idea.

I've got friends who are literally working alone on indie games that have no prospect of profit or commercial success. I've got guys working on iPhone games.

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

No business in the world has ever made more money with poorer management.

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.

Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

I've always said - I've been making games for twenty years, and from the first day I got in this business, I've been saying, 'All I have to do is sell one more copy than I have to, to get somebody to fund my next one.'

The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.

We are at the point where game designers have become celebrities due to the size of the market they serve.

Seems like it's going to be really hard to make money at it, and, therefore, really hard to get any great games done. Much like Flash games, the audience is huge, but the content isn't likely to be good enough to have people pay for it.

You want maybe to be that guy or one of the few guys who can help develop the game in the United States.

Each time you buy a used game, this is money that doesn't go into the pocket of the people that took the risk to create this, to finance it, to develop it.

We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like 'Cloud'... It's just almost impossible.

Game creation keeps on expanding, just like the Universe. That is why I keep making games

The audience has realized how much money the studios make from games now. They're making more money from games than they are from feature films. I mean this is a massive industry. It's still in its infancy. So I really feel lucky to be a part of it.

I'm in favour of innovation, just as long as the game does not suffer for it.

I worked as a writer, lead designer, and creative director in the game industry.

Videogames have existed for almost 40 years now, yet every year, we see major and unexpected advances.

As our platform gets technically better, coupled with allowing developers to make real money on Roblox, that's created a virtuous cycle where the quality of Roblox games is continuing to go up and up.

There are very few games, especially on the scale of 'Horizon,' that have a sole protagonist that is female.

What a lot of people don't know is that I got started as a professional gamemaker when I moved out to Texas to join George Broussard and Scott Miller and Allen Blum who created Duke Nukem, to join those guys and become part of the 'Duke Nukem 3D.'

People can be critical about your game, but no one knows better than the player as to what he needs.

On open platforms like PC, Mac, and Android, Epic's goal is to bring its games directly to customers.

Being the composer of 'Minecraft' is basically like imagining the distance between earth and moon.

Some folks actually talk a whole lot more than me, so I'm grateful for the people like Cliff Bleszinski. He talks about our games, and Mark Rein talks about our business strategy. I'm the shy programmer myself.