http://thequality.com/flics/10weeks/blog/archives/docs/Quotes.doc
"People aren't looking or not looking for a specific thing - they really just want something that's good... What people want are good things. Quality, I guess."
Toby Gard, game designer (Tomb Raider)
p.20 Academy - Issue 23 - The Journal of BAFTA
"As video games as a leisure concept is absorbed into the wider artistic community, shrugging off the "youth-culture lifestyle" ahngers-on that blight any advancement, a broader and more intelligent base of consumer will emerge".
Stefen Walters (spong.com), "They're not idiots"
MCV - The Marketing for Home Computing and Video Games, Feb 14, 2003
"Through the 1990s, as game budgets grew, publishers became more risk-averse. ... Messing with core gameplay is extremely risky, so they don't want to do that. They do want to improve the gameplay of existing games - they're not trying to make bad games, after all. But they want to do that by making small, incremental changes to established successes."
Jonathan Blow, Experimental Gameplay Workshop
"When one thinks of Star Wars, one usually thinks “action.” I would rate that factor at about 10 percent. The other 90 percent is in the little things, and while I admire, respect and even enjoy those little things, it doesn’t help the fact that we’re looking at a total experience that’s roughly analogous to watching water boil."
Keith Durocher
Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided (review)
http://www.avault.com/reviews/review_temp.asp?game=swg
"We want to equip film-makers, theatres and distributors with tools"
Erin Cullen, product manager, Windows Digital Media division, Microsoft Corp.
http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,59107,00.html
"Are fan films legal? Legal in the sense that you won't get in trouble for them- yes. Most fan films do include material that is copywrited by Lucasfilm, but the wonderful people there know that it is the fans that keep them going so they pretty much let fan films get away with using trademark characters, locations, ect. When making a film be careful if you are going to use characters from movies or books that are not covered by Lucasfilm, such as Star Trek or Superman, as those companies may not be so generous. A recent Superman fan film what shut down because of copyright infringement.
Can I buy/sell fan film? NO. No, no, no, no, no. Films may be distributed without profit only. If you make money from a film it will be considered copywrite infringement and may force Lucasfilm to come down hard on not only your film but EVERY fan film. This is a sensitive issue and for the sake of fan film makers everywhere please do not attempt to sell a fan film on Ebay or anywhere else. If you want to give your film out on a format other than the internet it is suggested that the individual give you a disk or VHS tape for you to copy the film on to and give back to them. There is a very thin line between making a profit and not, for which it is better to play it safe. "
Tony the Jedi
http://www.theforce.net/theater/faq/filmfaq.shtml
"What we will be doing in large parts with our first party publishing relationships - is trying to look for new creative concepts... the only way you will get there is by engaging a broader audience, with games that are easier to get started with, as well as having concepts that are broader then the seven ideas tha most of the games build on today."
Robbie Bach, chief Xbox officer, Microsoft
MCV - The Marketing for Home Computing and Video Games, Nov 28, 2003
"While development continues on making the World Wide Web more sophisticated, efforts should be made to put this technology to other uses -- some more relevant to the arts than to the sciences."
Michela Ledwidge
http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/old-whats-new/whats-new-1193.html