I want my little corner of the world where I get to make games where you're not trying to win or lose; you're not trying to get a higher score - you are having unbelievable amounts of fun as you learn about yourself and the world. That's what games can do!
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the joy of creating games that prioritize fun and self-discovery over competition and winning.
Warren Spector expresses a desire to create a unique gaming experience that focuses on enjoyment, personal exploration, and learning rather than traditional competition and scoring. He believes that games have the potential to enrich lives by offering players an opportunity to engage with themselves and the world around them in a meaningful way, highlighting the artistic and educational value of gaming.
In practice
This quote can be used to inspire game developers at a conference.
Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.
I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
Art is doing. Art deals directly with life.
A man becomes creative, whether he is an artist or scientist, when he finds a new unity in the variety of nature. He does so by finding a likeness between things which were not thought alike before.
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.
I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff -and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. And from the inside, too, I'd duplicate Myself, my lamp, an apple on a plate: Uncurtaining the night, I'd let dark glass Hang all the furniture above the grass, And how delightful when a fall of snow Covered my glimpse of lawn and reached up so As to make chair and bed exactly stand Upon that snow, out in that crystal land!
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
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