Tim Schafer quotes

“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

#Player Quotes #Playing Games Quotes #People Quotes

“I think I just have an idea in my head about how big an adventure game should be, so it's hard for me to design one that's much smaller than Grim Fandango or Full Throttle. There's just a certain amount of scope needed to create a complex puzzle space and to develop a real story. At least with my brain, there is.”
-- Tim Schafer

Source : "Press Start: Double Fine kickstarter lacks cash, Japan to get Xbox One in 2014, and more" by Keith Stuart, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2013.

#Real Quotes #Adventure Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I've always seen this overlap between medieval warfare and heavy metal. You see heavy metal singers and they'll have like a brace around their arm and they'll be singing about Orcs. So let's just make a world where that all happens. That all gets put together, the heavy metal, and the rock, and the battling, actually does happen. Let's not flirt around with this let's just do it.”
-- Tim Schafer

#Flirting Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Singing Quotes

“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

#Player Quotes #Games Quotes #Skins Quotes

“Death makes sad stories of us all.”
-- Tim Schafer

Source : "Grim Fandango". Video Game, www.imdb.com. 1998.

#Death Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Oh yeah - you have to write every day. Or every weekday. Because writing is a job. It's not eureka moments over and over. It's grueling work, panning for gold. You just keep at it and eventually you get a few grains. Or flakes. Or whatever gold looks like in rivers. Or maybe it's like fishing. Who cares? You just have to do it every day because you never know which day is going to be your productive day.”
-- Tim Schafer

#Jobs Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“I think every company is set by who founded it and who's in charge.”
-- Tim Schafer

Source : "Some Real Talk With Tim Schafer". Interview with Jason Schreier, www.kotaku.com.au. March 11, 2016.

#Thinking Quotes #Company Quotes

“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

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Support Quotes

“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

Source : "Some Real Talk With Tim Schafer". "Kotaku Splitscreen" with Kirk Hamilton, Jason Schreier, www.kotaku.com.au. March 11, 2016.

#Priorities Quotes #Flavor Quotes #Way Quotes

“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 can't be a hypocrite as a coach because as a player that's what I wanted. I wanted feedback, I wanted communication from the boss. I showed up for work, you can yell at me if you want, but I want input. So that's the kind of coach I want to be.”

“I want to help Manchester United win the Premier League and become the best player in the world.”

Source : "Adnan Januzaj ready to commit his future to Manchester United". www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2013.

“Thank you to my family, my fans and fans of other teams for their support. The NFL is a fraternity of brothers and I am thankful for the tweets, phone calls and text messages from my fellow players. God Bless everyone and thank u so much,”

Source : FaceBook post by Adrian Peterson from Oct 11, 2013

“We are moving away from myths and toward fantasy role-playing games, away from movies and toward videogames.”

“Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?”

“It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.”

“I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.”