Tim Sweeney Quotes

'Syndicate' is technically the first game I worked on.

I'm a big gamer. I know the lead time and how long it takes to develop a game and how hard it is to get it right.

There is certainly a strong game development community in Texas, centered around Austin, with a significant additional contingency coming over from Dallas.

The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.

Right now we're working on finishing up Pirates! for the Xbox, we're developing Civilization IV and we've got a couple other games in development that we'll tell you about soon.

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

It was, like, two mobile games I released. They did pretty well, and after I made those two games, I was like, 'Man, I want to make another game, but I want to make this game for PlayStation and Xbox and PC.' I was like, 'You know what? Forget making the video game for Xbox, PlayStation and PC. How about I make my own console?'

I used to be a part-time enthusiast press games writer when I was starting to get into making indie games.

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

Game design is a funny thing. There are people out there who are really good at it, but it's not clear that they can teach it. It's a very intuitive process. It's an art.

We didn't have our online service developed. We had never shipped a console game before as a company. So we were developing a lot of new competencies as a company and assembling a new team.

You can't build an engine that's just good for one type of game anymore. The economics don't work.

My name is Reggie. I'm about kicking ass, I'm about taking names, and we're about making games.

I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.

Only in about 2007 or so did it become clear to me that games could stand proudly beside other storytelling mediums, and that's when I became more, shall we say, evangelistic in my position. Prior to that, I don't know how enthusiastically I would have admitted that I game.

If you make it a game, gamers will play it no matter what your motivation is in making it.

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.

The ideal engine of a 3-D game is an intricate and elegant construct of code that allows players to speed through solidly built virtual worlds. The engine allows every picture on a monitor to be drawn there quickly enough to convince hand and eye that it is instantaneous.

You have to design and program differently. Combat action in an MMO is so different to combat in a first-person shooter.

I would love to make video games.

I've also been busy doing stuff for Steve Jackson Games.

There's no bigger gaming franchise on the console than 'Call of Duty', and we can't wait to see what the community can create with this new tool.

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.

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'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title.