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Warren Spector’s talk, encompassing Deus Ex and Epic Mickey and much more, is streaming now at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter but ALSO by request, we are not recording or keeping this stream! Tune in if you want to see it.

I’m not going to try and live-post this whole talk but I will provide some notes: Warren Spector has been so far been unable to convince his mother that games are cooler than movies

Ideas are easy, ideas are irrelevant, don’t value them. Warren Spector has exactly 100 ideas for potential games sitting on his hard drive at home. But why work on a particular game, say Deus Ex? Because you BURN TO DO IT

The things Warren Spector was stubborn about with Deus Ex which he was told were impossible: mashing up too many different genres; his concept of sharing authorship with players

Ooh an update to Warren Spector’s classic 2000s “why can’t we make a game where you FALL IN LOVE!!” Warren Spector believes that games are good at “doing verbs” like run jump shoot blah blah, but still don‘t know how to do “being verbs” like being… in love! (Me: uh… what about loving?)