Game Designer Quotes

#1. I had no special training at all; I am completely self taught. I don't fit the mold of a visual arts designer or a graphic designer. I just had a strong concept about what a game designer is. Someone who designs projects to make people happy. That's a game designer's purpose.

Toru Iwatani

#2. I think I can make an entirely new game experience, and if I can't do it, some other game designer will.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#3. A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.

Sid Meier

#4. I'm not planning a kickstarter game. And I'm not really a game designer.

Charles Stross

#5. Every game designer should make one explicitly world-changing game. Lawyers do pro bono work, why can't we?

Jane McGonigal

#6. Before I became a game designer, I was a software engineer.

Jane Jensen

#7. I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga. The profession of game designer was created really recently. If it didn't exist, I'd probably be making anime.

Satoshi Tajiri

#8. I've always felt that 'game over' is a state of failure more for the game designer than from the player,

David Cage

#9. I don't think I could ever stop being a game designer, that's just where my brain is going to be at until I'm in the coffin.

Chris Avellone

#10. When I mention that I'm a game designer as well as a writer, someone will nod and say, 'Ah, that's what we like about your script. The videogame feel.'

Dave Morris

#11. I appreciate the sentiment that I am a popular woman in computer gaming circles; but I prefer being thought of as a computer game designer rather than a woman computer game designer. I don't put myself into gender mode when designing a game.

Roberta Williams

#12. We wanted to create an environment where if a game player enjoyed the 'writing style' of a particular game designer, he or she could look for the next game by that same author and not be disappointed.

David Crane

#13. No game designer ever went wrong by overestimating the narcissism of their players,

Will Wright

#14. If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

Max Levchin

#15. Video games provide an easy lead-in to computer literacy. They can get you thinking like a video game designer and can even lead to designing since many games come with software to modify the game or redesign it.

James Paul Gee

#16. I want to see a game designer nominated for a Nobel Prize.

Jane McGonigal

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

Margaret Stohl

#18. I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I'm always game for that.

Brad Goreski

#19. When they came to you for your line, you had to be ready and you had to get it in one.

June Foray

#20. I have the philosophy that I'm different. I have the body, the well-being and the experience. Now the teacher gets to show the student that he's worthy of the lesson. Let me show him through experience.

Bernard Hopkins

#21. When you drink fluoridated water, you're drinking liquid Prozac. You drink enough of it, even though it's a small amount, drink it for decades and decades and what does Prozac do to you? It dumbs you down; it makes you docile.

Jesse Ventura

#22. I'd advise all aspiring game designers not to aim for money when developing a game, because unfortunately it is very rare for game designers to be able to earn a living by developing analog games.

Klaus Teuber

#23. It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.

Kate Adie

#24. You don't need sunglasses inside a building in the middle of the night.

Jimmy Heath

#25. Being a mom is what life is about. I hope people realize what the priorities in life should be and know not everything has to be perfect.

Kourtney Kardashian

#26. Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.

David Crane

#27. In the beginning God made the seas, the mountains, the heavens, and buffalo knees. He made lilies, and dew drops, and snail shells, and roses, and dippers, and yappers, and snappers, and noses.

Lois Greiman

#28. Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!

Karl Lagerfeld

#29. History is written by the victor.

Guillermo Del Toro

#30. Motherhood didn't make you stronger; it made you vulnerable and afraid of what death could steal from you.

Tess Gerritsen

#31. I think a game hits a high point when it provokes reactions the designer doesn't expect.

Brenda Brathwaite

#32. I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.

Diane Kruger

#33. I was the lead designer on 'Portal,' and I really enjoyed making that type of game.

Kim Swift