‘Deus Ex’ Creator Starting His Own Gaming Academy

[stahlhart]

I pitched a Lego construction game in 1989, and guess what: Minecraft is basically a Lego construction game. But at the time I was told ‘no, that won’t work.’ I pitched a western game and the response was ‘westerns don’t sell.’ And then Red Dead Redemption came out. Stuff doesn’t sell until someone makes one that sells, and no amount of data can reveal what new thing is going to sell. The metrics and data guys, and the publishing guys will never come up with the next big thing.

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[JoetheLion]

That's pretty great. I admire Warren Spector a lot. There are many popular game industry personas that are just full of empty words and shit (Peter Molyneux) or people who were interesting and inventive, but are living from their former glory (Richard Garriot). Whenever I read or listen to an interview with WS I think his ideas are always fresh and he's not losing his grip on reality.