Jordan Mechner quotes

“Design a clear and simple interface. The primary task of the interface is to present the player with a choice of the available actions at each moment and to provide instant feedback when the player makes a choice.”
-- Jordan Mechner

Source : "Designing story-based games". www.jordanmechner.com. November 8, 2011.

#Simple Quotes #Player Quotes #Choices Quotes

“I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.”
-- Jordan Mechner

#Cutting Quotes #Different Quotes #Rope Quotes

“If you immerse yourself too single-mindedly in your chosen art form whether it's video games, movies, comics or whatever, your work can easily become just a reflection of what others are doing in that field rather than breaking new ground.”
-- Jordan Mechner

#Art Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Games Quotes

“Today's games are more forgiving in the sense that you can save your game almost anywhere, and get back into the action very quickly, whereas in POP when you died you had to go back to the beginning of the level.”
-- Jordan Mechner

Source : Source: www.ign.com

#Forgiving Quotes #Action Quotes

“A simple yet profound way to create a healthy body, a stress-free mind, and a peaceful sense of well-being.”

“Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.”

“Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.”

“Today was about execution, period. Every single player, all of us in the dressing room right now, we’re embarrassed because that’s not the way we want to play soccer.”

“You always catch the wrong players.”

“I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.”

Source : "Obsessed: China" by Abigail Washburn, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 17, 2012.

“Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as the card players and the kibitzers interact and new thrills are sought.”

“I'm not a good guitar player.”

“It represents a place women go and are left confused because they do not hear the truth about abortion and their choices. They are in a sense abused by the medical procedures that are performed without quality medical instructions/information. It's a tragic place.”

“The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.”