Game Industry Quotes

I think a lot of the media love the game and hate the people who play it.

There are now college degrees in game design and interactive media, so if I were starting now, I would probably do that. When I started, you had to break into design from QA or programming or art, but it's really not true anymore.

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

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.'

No one in a normal walk of life flies into a new city unknown and unemployed and ends up doing their job on national television a few days later. I love the game, but it's crazy sometimes.

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

I have an unfortunate history with Ethan Ralph. Like many women in the game industry, I've been doxed by him multiple times.

Look at how many times we've improved on the Game Boy Advance in terms of the look, the feel, screen changes, and everything else. We believe that type of constant innovation is critical to driving this industry, and certainly if you look at the world wide sales of Game Boy Advance, I don't think anyone would disagree.

I don't remember not playing games. I think my pre-industry experience is me building LEGO houses and wishing people would go through them.

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

Creative freedom is an imperative for me, but it doesn't really exist in a Hollywood game.

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.

I think it's wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly.

Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And there's a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable.

I've had the tremendous fortune to work on games like 'Life is Strange' and 'Horizon Zero Dawn', where there was a lot of collaboration between me and the developers.

The game has changed. What's going on now is nonsense. You have guys complaining about not being paid.

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

You just have to adapt, and you have to realize where people are going to actually play their games. It used to just be Nintendo and PlayStation, and now it's all kind of devices. So you've got to learn to adapt what you know from the technology into those areas... I've been wanting to do a mobile game for a long time.

Gamergate has grown into a hate group that threatens the stability of the $60 billion a year game industry.

To be honest, I've never been interested in how many games I've done and seen. It doesn't mean anything to anybody. All I know is I'm eternally grateful for having been allowed to work so many games.

I'd been at Valve since I got out of college. I felt like I kind of grew up there, and I wanted to see what else was out in the world. One of the owners of Airtight Games is a friend of mine, and he asked if I would run a team there. It just sounded like a great opportunity.

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

The truth is, the game industry is a really incredibly difficult place for women to work.

It's a good thing Doom 3 is selling very well.

It was hard to watch, the business side is so big in the game.