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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.

Warren Spector is one of these people who bans the word “fun” and challenges anyone to come up with a meaningful definition. (OK I’ll take the bait: it’s a non-obvious diminutive of the word “pleasure,” less threatening, less serious, smaller, etc.)

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.

“If two players describe the same experience of a mission or an encounter, start over. We have failed.”

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.

Warren Spector says “Always Be Demoable.” When you have five minutes of gameplay, get people playing it. When you have 30 minutes of gameplay, get people playing it. Classic advice: don’t talk during playtests; but do use them to settle arguments decisively

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.

Warren Spector says that every time someone believes a game is ready to exit pre-production and go into production, they are wrong, the game is actually not ready and would benefit from more time in pre-production.

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 couldn’t care less about making a lot of money. I want to touch people and know that I’ve done that. That is one of my success criteria.”

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.

Warren Spector says Disney’s internal mandate was “we make entertainment for families” but Pixar’s was ”we make entertainment for everyone,” and being Warren Spector, he insisted on trying to do the latter with Epic Mickey and feels that he succeeded. <3

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.

Warren Spector has OCM syndrome (can’t do anything without One Clever Mechanic that’s new) which is why Epic Mickey has Paint and Thinner

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.

Warren Spector hates the Epic Mickey vertical slice, in which you could paint objects down to the pixel, and once again insists that vertical slices are total nonsense

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.

Warren Spector was dissuaded from doing a grimdark mean Mickey by a focus tester who, according to Warren, looked like an ex-con and insisted that the character design not ruin his childhood

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.

Warren Spector put up televisions around the Epic Mickey team workspace that just played Mickey Mouse cartoons constantly

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.

Warren Spector approached Disney with a different game idea but they pitched him on making a Mickey Mouse game and he ripped up his other idea.

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.

Harvey Smith told Warren Spector that his elegant skill system was terrible and sucked, and of course Harvey was right

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.

Warren Spector’s Deus Ex team was all guys (but I will bet someone who wants to research it $20 that at least one of them has transitioned since then)

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.

Part of the setting premise of Deus Ex is “what if every conspiracy theory you’ve heard of (in 1998) WAS TRUE?!”

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.

Warren Spector believes that if you’re going to make a game you should have something to ask via the game — a question posed to players, not just something to tell players

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.

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

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.

Warren Spector is a strong advocate for carving out your own space in existing franchises (side-stories, separate locations, alternate universes) to have some creative control — Ultima: Worlds of Adventure, Ultima VII: Serpent Isle, Ultima Underworld all examples vs. Garriott’s mainline

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.