[Gamasutra highlights choice quotes from game industry figures such as Epic Games' Mark Rein, Loot Drop's Brenda Brathwaite, Leisure Suit Larry's Al Lowe, and many others.]
In our original and exclusive interviews, analysis, and feature pieces over the past week, a wide variety of developers, publishers, and indies shared their thoughts on the danger of open platforms, old-school episodic content, and making games like storybooks.
This Week's Noteworthy Game Industry Quotes
"A lot of games these days feel to me like 500 page novels"
"The only way to learn game design is not beating the hell out of a game in test, the only way to learn game design is to make a lot of bad games yourself."
"If you look at the most open platform today -- that's Android -- Android is anarchy. ... We do not want open as in Android -- that would be a disaster for the business.""
"For me, that's a lot of the appeal of especially the classic text adventures: the process of realizing you live in a world with a tremendous and unbounded number of verbs"
The complete versions of these in-depth articles, as well as other insightful pieces, are all available in Gamasutra's pages for Exclusive items and Features.
