tautology

“People play games for the characters, not for the tech.

Maybe it was the willingness to play that hinted at a tender, eternally newborn part in all humans. Maybe it was the willingness to play that kept one from despair.

The thing I find profoundly hopeful when I’m feeling despair is to imagine people playing, to believe that no matter how bad the world gets, there will always be players.”

“You have different things,” Dong Hyun said. “You were born into a different world than I was. Maybe you don’t need what Grandma and I have.”

A good game designer knows that clinging to a few early ideas about a project can cut off the potential for the work.

Sadie had willed herself to be great: art doesn’t typically get made by happy people.

dervish

She knew what it was to be ravenous with ambition but to have your reach exceed your grasp.