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The great thing about games is that it's tremendously collaborative, and it opens you up to this other world of thinking and storytelling and how you construct those stories.

— Bruce Feirstein

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The great games are the space sims and driving sims and these experiences where you're basically sitting at a table with nothing happening in front of you. A lot of interesting things are evolving there. There are great games that can be made.

— John Carmack

Gaming has been a great way to get to know people. That's part of what I love about games, that they are social.

— Rich Sommer

The obvious objective of video games is to entertain people by surprising them with new experiences.

— Shigeru Miyamoto

The video game market is huge, and the ability to tell stories, and tell different kinds of stories in the gaming space is quickly evolving and changing for the better.

— Jim Lee

I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly.

— Uwe Boll

Video games are a special kind of play, but at root, they're about the same things as other games: embracing particular rules and restrictions in order to develop skills and experience rewards. When a game is well-designed, it's the balance between these factors that engages people on a fundamental level.

— Tom Chatfield

I love video games. When I was growing up, video games were very important to me.

— Ben Schwartz

The basic idea of Games With a Purpose is that we are taking a problem that computers cannot yet solve, and we are getting people to solve it for us while they are playing a game.

— Luis von Ahn

✗Opposing Perspectives

Games I do find interesting for what they say about us, about what we wish for, about the programming. But let it stop there: don't listen to this rubbish about them actually being good for you, helping with hand-eye co-ordination or whatever. They're games. They prepare you for nothing.

— Douglas Coupland

All the stuff I love most in game storytelling is never the big-picture stuff; it's the stuff that feels like curlicues, stuff that's just there because it's a game and because you can do it.

— Tom Bissell