Robin Sloan Quotes

The biggest thing you can do in VR that you can't really do in non-VR games is a huge focus on exploration and interaction.

When I create a game, I try to focus more on the emotions that the player experiences during the game play.

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

Why go to Antarctica, why do a film like 'Grizzly Man'? It's the sheer joy of storytelling - it's the urge.

When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the readers inside the space that gives us every chapter of the story.

I suppose the key for me is about opening up experiences and untold stories to audiences.

That feeling of being rewarded for your curiosity is huge. It's why I play games, this idea of truly existing in a world.

For me, the best moments in storytelling are the ones where I feel I'm discovering something.

I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.

When you travel, try having an open mind, not just about the city that you're in but about the surrounding areas.

I watch documentaries and travel the world and see all sorts of life.

I'm following my interests, and there's something about investigating the world and creating a watchable, entertaining programme out of it that is deeply satisfying.

Wherever the good stories are, I'm trying to place myself there.

Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey.

I was really interested in doing a really science fiction-based story because it's something I feel like I hadn't done yet.

There's something attractive about making people temporarily forget their actual age by taking them out of their normal lives so completely. Doesn't travel, by its very nature, strive to do this?

The Rio experience for me is going to be completely different to London.

I love travelling. I'll go anywhere. I think it's so much fun.

I'm drawn to a story partly based on the fact that it's something I might not be as familiar with.

There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.

We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places, where no person, no student, no program has gone before.

I love travelling and use my time abroad to be inspired.

I love to travel and see new places.

I've learned that borders are where the actual ends, but also where the imagination and the story begins.

I always look for characters that will hopefully develop into a more powerful symbol.