Top 53 Schafer Quotes
#1. I say it's better to take a chance on the possibility of kindness than endure the certainty of cruelty.
Courtney Schafer
#2. I love studying folklore and legends. The stories that people passed down for a thousand years without any sort of marketing support are obviously saying something appealing about the basic human condition.
Tim Schafer
#3. Still the noise in the mind: that is the first task - then everything else will follow in time.
R. Murray Schafer
#4. Dawn itself is the most neglected masterpiece of the modern world.
R. Murray Schafer
#5. Sure, I was married..."once."
Which is why, even to this very day, "never again" continues to be my favorite number.
Scott Schafer
#8. Kinect is such a great new entry into the field because it takes away one of the big barriers to little kids to playing a game, which is the controller. You can't hand a basic video game controller to a child and expect them to understand what a left bumper is and to click in the right stick.
Tim Schafer
#9. Be creative. Unlock your imagination. Open your noggin. Do anything.
Scott Schafer
#10. I'm a dad now, so now I just don't care what I look like. Once you've created life, you just don't care what anyone thinks.
Tim Schafer
#11. Adventure games are all about details - if you happen to take this one object and use it with this other object, in a really weird place, at a weird time. If you happen to write a really funny dialogue line for that, even if it didn't solve the puzzle, people will appreciate that.
Tim Schafer
#12. The Internet has allowed a lot of access - people feel entitled to change the ending of games, for example. So there are a lot more voices coming at you all the time, which I think has its effect on creative decision making and possibly makes people more afraid to take risks.
Tim Schafer
#13. A huge part of what a kid learns when they're growing up is social and emotional development. As adults, we take it for granted that other people have emotions that are different from ours, and we can identify what they are, but those are skills that children have to learn.
Tim Schafer
#14. When you listen carefully to the soundscape it becomes quite miraculous.
R. Murray Schafer
#15. I think when you play 'Psychonauts,' you are kind of playing inside of my head.
Tim Schafer
#16. For every character, I think about who they are, their story, what they are, and who they were before their game started. What was their life like? Where did they grow up? What were their parents like?
Tim Schafer
#17. Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.
Courtney Schafer
#18. I would like to reach non-gamers. It's always great when guys come up to me who are gamers and represent my usual audience, but they'll say, 'You know, Psychonauts is the only game I can actually get my girlfriend to play with me.'
Tim Schafer
#19. I've always been a proponent of the idea that technology doesn't matter to game design. The example I always like to point out is 'Tetris,' one of the greatest games ever made.
Tim Schafer
#20. If you're not loyal to your team, you can get by for a while, but eventually you will need to rely on their loyalty to you, and it just won't be there.
Tim Schafer
#21. Quite some years ago, I started travelling the planet. I thought this would learn me something about the world we live in. I was wrong ... It learned me something about myself. It changed me. And nothing will ever again be black-and-white again.
Maarten Schafer
#22. People want to do business with you because of 'who you are' and 'what you stand for' ... not because of 'what you do'.
Create your story ... publish it online and make sure people will find it when they Google you.
Maarten Schafer
#23. For all those moments in your life when you absolutely think you can't...think again.
Scott Schafer
#24. The reality is a reality check is an oxymoron
Tom Schafer
#25. When I'm playing 'Rock Band,' I'm like, 'Man, someday, later on in life when I'm a famous rock star ... ' Which gets a little harder to convince myself of as I reach middle age, but it still happens a lot.
Tim Schafer
#26. Remember, finding a publisher is a lot like a date. You can submit willfully and keep getting rejected, but in the end, you can always self-publish yourself.
Scott Schafer
#27. I guess I didn't have a lot of friends, so that's what made videogames so important. They played back. I could do them myself. Solitaire can't surprise you; there's no AI. But videogames play back with you.
Tim Schafer
#28. Empathy involves the inner experience of sharing in and comprehending the momentary psychological state of another person.
Roy Schafer
#29. I didn't die, and that's the point. Doesn't matter how close you come if you walk away whole.
Courtney Schafer
#30. I've now met, I would say, almost every single one of my rock idols. I feel like I should just drive off a cliff now.
Tim Schafer
#31. It is much better to dare great things, to celebrate great triumphs, even when you have had failures along the way, then to get into the line of the cold and timid souls who experience neither joy nor pain because they live in the gray zone in which there is neither victory nor defeat." Winners
Bodo Schafer
#32. I think every company is set by who founded it and who's in charge.
Tim Schafer
#33. I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and now games.
Tim Schafer
#34. We live in a reputation economy. People are judged based on their online visible choices, behaviours, accomplishments and mistakes. Every comment you leave, person you connect to, photo you upload, or review you get, contributes to the permanent record of your online reputation.
Maarten Schafer
#35. I like any good game. I don't care what the genre is.
Tim Schafer
#36. Narrow the focus, take the ascent one step at a time, and it's amazing what odds a man can beat.
Courtney Schafer
#37. People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.
Tim Schafer
#38. In this time of 'information overload', people do not need more information. They want a story they can relate to.
Maarten Schafer
#39. Before 'Final Fantasy VII,' I would have told you that I had zero interest in RPGs with turn-based combat. But that game was so well done, I didn't care what genre it was. Any genre can be done poorly or done well.
Tim Schafer
#40. What I learned at LucasArts was, you don't make your bets on ideas: ideas are cheap. You make your bets on people.
Tim Schafer
#41. Publishers are very risk-averse, so they lean towards licenses and sequels. But the fact is that even those are not guaranteed hits. So, if 'playing it safe' does not guarantee hits, they might as well leave it up to the really creative, risk-taking people, because they couldn't do any worse.
Tim Schafer
#42. I always think the recipe for success for a game or any sort of a fantasy experience is to think of a character that hasn't really been explored before, who is unique and has special abilities that not everybody has, and plop them into whatever is the most interesting situation to plop them into.
Tim Schafer
#43. I enjoy everything. I actually do listen to everything. In high school, I listened to a lot of metal and punk rock.
Tim Schafer
#44. I travel the world. I Take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time and leave nothing but footprints.
Maarten Schafer
#45. We want playing our games to entertain people on many different levels. Deeper down, I want to make a connection with the player, and it's the way, to me, of saying to the person playing the game that they're not alone in the world.
Tim Schafer
#46. When you have a programmer-founded company it often gets really techy, if you have a producer or a business-person, it all really sets the flavor of the company, just the priorities and the way you deal with everything.
Tim Schafer
#47. The last time I really got into new music that wasn't heavy metal was probably like ... TV on the Radio? I think that was it. That's the last time.
Tim Schafer
#48. If I had done a sequel to 'Day of the Tentacle,' there probably wouldn't have been a 'Full Throttle.' If I did a 'Full Throttle' sequel, there wouldn't have been a 'Grim Fandango.' It's important to make new stuff up.
Tim Schafer
#49. Online personal branding is not about self-promotion ... it's about transferring your real world reputation into the online world.
Maarten Schafer
#50. If you're a lumberjack, you know what to do. You see trees, and you still have a job! If you're a writer, you see a blank page. You don't know if you still have a job. You might have great ideas - you may have no ideas.
Tim Schafer
#51. In the future, we will play games while floating naked in a tank of warm, sensory-depriving gelatin. Games will be distributed chemically, into the gelatin, and absorbed into the player's skin. The gelatin will be Lingonberry-flavored, and the games will encourage good citizenship.
Tim Schafer
#52. There was a 'magic rock' my mom would lift up, and under the rock was a bunch of bugs. Roly-poly bugs and worms. Somehow I thought that it was a magical world of insects, and I wanted to go there. It was the same impulse as 'Pikmin' - I wanted to go into that world.
Tim Schafer
#53. Today all sounds belong to a continuous field of possibilities lying within the comprehensive dominion of music. Behold the new orchestra: the sonic universe! And the musicians: anyone and anything that sounds!
R. Murray Schafer
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