Jesse Schell Quotes

A game is a problem-solving activity, approached with a playful attitude

Game mechanics are the core of what a game truly is. They are the interactions and relationships that remain when all of the aesthetics, technology, and story are stripped away.

Games are starting to creep into every aspect of our day.

Usually, the best ideas come from having to fix a really hard problem.

Games have no other purpose than to please.

One of the main things that's appealing about games is that you know a game can be won. It's an unusual game that's impossible to win.

You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.

Everybody is playing games. There are games now for pretty much every age, every demographic.

We are shifting into an enjoyment-based economy. And who knows more about making enjoyment than game developers?

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

I jokingly call this convergence of games into reality the "Gamepocalypse": the moment when every moment of life is actually a game.

More and more women are going online.

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

The main way to reduce stress in the workplace is by picking the right people.

Who cares and who doesn't care about a project, is going to shape the project in a significant way.

To be connected to the real world is healthy and important.

Why is it that big companies fail when the technology changes? It happens in every industry, so what's the pattern? What are they all doing wrong?

Facebook is terrifying to the traditional games biz.

People don't just stop playing Facebook games. They divorce them.

Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using. ...

LinkedIn's got a little progress bar. It wants you to do things like sign up 10 of your friends. It does that near the end. At the beginning it's like, 'You put in your name. 20 percent progress! How about some other information?' People want to fill in that progress bar. They like to complete a task. They like to check a box.

New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.