Tim Sweeney Quotes

I have fond memories of the development work that led to a lot of great things in modern gaming - the intensity of the first person experience, LAN and Internet play, game mods, and so on.

I would love to make video games.

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 a video game fan, and I always thought it would be cool to be able to control a character.

The great games are the space sims and driving sims and these experiences where you're basically sitting at a table with nothing happening in front of you. A lot of interesting things are evolving there. There are great games that can be made.

I'm exploring this world of game development and GPU and getting involved in any capacity that I can to meet talented artists and programmers and developers. That's what you're gonna need to get a high-end experience done.

I've never made a game for a high-definition platform. That's definitely something I'm interested in.

I think computing power is ready to do 3D justice. It was great for shooters and racing games in the past, but I didn't think it was right for strategy games.

I don't want to criticize any other designers, but I have to say that many of the people involved in this industry - directors and producers - are trying to make their games more like movies. They are longing to make movies rather than making videogames.

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.

By the new year of 1994, it had grown up into Inform 4 and could produce games twice as large.

My entire career is online - I create games on the web.

I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.

Looking ahead, we're doubling down on our commitment to building the most advanced tools and technology to take our creators and players into the metaverse of the future.

For us, it's about having the game react to the player as much as possible. There's ways you can do that with technology, graphics, AI - we're doing some VR stuff right now - and so it's what we think is great about not just our games, but what's great about video games - how are they better than any other form of entertainment?

The whole idea of how people will learn computer science, I believe will be through game development.

When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.

The very first game I worked on was for DreamWorks Interactive's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park.'

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language.

Roblox is spearheading the next generation of gaming - one in which players become developers and user-generated content is at the core.

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

We have an enormous vision for a new category for human interaction and, ultimately, immersive entertainment.

The consumer likes having a brand-new experience and reliving it over and over again. If you create the right type of experience, that also happens in video games.

The thing that excites me most technologically is the ability to use VR not just for games and displaying our content, but also for creating that content. We're putting a lot of thought into what the Unreal Engine editor looks like as a VR application.

Games already pretty much have reached the point of photo-realism. Working on more intense graphics is not the only path we can take anymore. Simply relying on the sheer horsepower of the machine will not bring the industry a bright future.