Roberta Williams Quotes

#1. I believe the adventure game genre will never die any more than any type of storytelling would ever die.

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#2. It seems we always exceed even our own expectations-after a lot of hard work, though!

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#3. Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.

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#4. An adventure game is nothing more than a good story set with engaging puzzles that fit seamlessly in with the story and the characters, and looks and sounds beautiful.

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#5. Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.

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#6. King's Quest IV was a much bigger hit than I, II, or III. I do feel that King's Quest IV was a pivotal game in bringing in more female players.

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#7. I had always been intrigued by the emotional aspect of adventure gaming-the fact that people get so personally involved.

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#8. A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.

Yasunari Kawabata

#9. If more women want to be a part of the computer industry today, they have to do more to put themselves there. Nobody is keeping them out.

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#10. I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.

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#11. The experience of creating my adventure games was, other than marrying my husband and bringing into the world my two sons, the most fulfilling, wonderful experience I ever had.

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#12. At the end of a project I get very weird, you know, in my head because I'm not doing it. It's like an addiction. I have to do it.

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#13. A good story never dies.

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#14. ...yet he [Levon] somehow sings with the wounded humanity of a man without a tribe, a man who has known both love and grief and understands that one is the price of the other.

Greg Iles

#15. The traveled mind is the catholic mind educated from exclusiveness and egotism.

Amos Bronson Alcott

#16. You decide you're going to do horror, then gosh darn it, do horror. Do what's expected. Don't kind of do it. Don't dilly-dally around, because people really enjoy the genre, and they expect certain things.

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#17. You don't have to want to be in a relationship for a little bow-chicka-bow-wow."
Brittany looked at him slowly. "Did you really just say that?"
"I did. And I owned it . Gonna make me a shirt that says that.

J. Lynn

#18. 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.

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#19. My definition of an adventure game is an interactive story set with puzzles and obstacles to solve and worlds to explore.

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#20. I am most proud of the development of the characters as personalities that game players could relate to and care about.

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#21. We are energy, and like all energy, we are in constant change.

Stephen Richards

#22. I always say that my favorite game was Original Adventure, published by both Microsoft and Apple Computer back in 1980.

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