"And the question is, how many times are you willing to lose before you give up?"
"When we design games that kill the player repeatedly, most people don't get the message that the game is challenging; they get the message that they're dummies who can't survive ten seconds in a game."
"Never be afraid to edit you game down if it needs it."
"Maybe we should just try creating a game that we like, rather than thinking about what’s going to sell or what’s popular, or looking outside for the standard. We should look inside to see what’s fun."
"I think that if you are not enjoying your life and what you are doing, you cannot create games that people will enjoy. So, we are alternating between rest and intensive work. Creative ideas are born from our spare time."
"I think that, through anime, we've been educated that cartoons can be for adults. We need to ensure people don't assume it's just for kids."
"What we tend to say at Adeline is, if you want to do something and you already know how to do it, then don't do it. You've got to try to do something that looks impossible, you have to learn on the way."
"If you give a good idea to a mediocre team, they will screw it up; if you give a mediocre idea to a great team, they will either fix it or throw it away and come up with something that works."
"It's also important to remember that a business needs to be fun - it must be creative but it has to be run in a professional way. Many companies fail because they are set up by programmers who are good at what they do - programming."
"Games with a great AI but no effort put into the graphics will only ever sell to hardcore gamers."
"It's better to have one good game than two great games. The mistake I think I made in Covert Action is actually having two games in there kind of competing with each other."
"We have reached the stage where we have engines that are capable of displaying all the polygons we need but we're waiting for the technology to catch up. Nobody talks about the number of sprites systems can display any more. Soon it will be the same with polygons. We [the industry] have created all these amazing worlds but what are we going to fill them with?"
