Words matter. These are the best Jenova Chen Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I grew up with games. It changed my life. It changed my social relationships with my friends. It defined my childhood. It’s something I really cherished.
A lot of the greatest artists, their work is always about life and the world. I think there needs to be that for video games.
I’m a perfectionist.
I would rather see a game where you play to feel happier and to make other people like you and to make the people you care about happy.
I like technology, but the blockbuster games use it for the same thing over and over again.
Nothing truly bad happens. There’s always good and bad in any changes.
A great painter can paint something really complex, but they can crystallize it into something really simple.
A lot of people asked us why ‘Journey’ didn’t let them play with friends or family, and obviously we had a reason – because that would have defeated the purpose of the game. But for a game to be truly be accessible to both children and adults and to men and women, it has to allow people to play with the ones they love.
My dream is to make everyone love video games.
We tried to just convince big publishers like EA or other people to make games like ‘Cloud’… It’s just almost impossible.
If you can imagine the delight of visiting a theme park where lasting memories are made, we envision ‘Sky’ will sometimes feel like that.
I really like ‘ICO’ and ‘Shadow of the Colossus.’
I was very impressed with the scope and scale and impact that came from originally one person making ‘Minecraft.’ It’s inspiring for me to think how our team can do more with less.
‘Cloud’ and ‘Flower’ are very much egocentric about my own expression. ‘Flow’ is more utilitarian, and ‘Journey’ is more about collaboration between various creative voices in the team.
If a game is meant to be played by everybody, it deserves to be on multiple platforms so everybody can play it.
For ‘Journey’ to create a sense of smallness and a sense of awe will encourage the players to be together and exchange emotions. When you put the two players together online and put them in a difficult environment, they will create a bond.
Language is very deceiving. In certain languages, there is certain vocabulary that doesn’t exist in other languages. It totally changes how people feel about things.
Seeing games become more of a young person thing, I feel like a toy I grew up with has been left behind. I don’t want to. I want this thing to be respected by adults. I want this thing to be growing with me. It’s important to have games that could be more nuanced and reflective of the real world and relevant to adults.
I always thought if I was born 2000 years earlier, I would be a monk, probably carving a monastery or some giant pantheon buildings.
Our goal is always to make games that can move people, that are designed for everybody so the whole family should be able to play it together, and that bring people together and really move them in a way.
Thatgamecompany was founded with the philosophy that games are a form of entertainment, and entertainment is the food for emotion.
Even in film, books, and music, there’s always action – there’s always rock and roll. Young people appreciate that kind of experience.
Creativity is not talent but attitude.
I think that our language, culture, age, fortune, property, and our fame is all a facade. In the end, we’re all the same.
‘Journey’ was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell’s work for ‘The Hero’s Journey,’ but, from among his works, I like ‘The Power of Myth’ best.
I grew up in Shanghai, a big urban city.
The focus of ‘Flower’ is emotion and to make you feel peaceful.
When I read a good story, I often start thinking, ‘Should I live my life according to what this character chooses and values?’ It makes me think. I feel like I grew up to be a more mature person while thinking about character development in these fictional situations.
Each game we make, we like to introduce an emotion that is rarely experienced by gamers in the console game industry.
If our games can help people, that’s the best reward we can get.
Video games have always been a part of my life.
Games have to be relevant intellectually.
There are many sides of the urban life that I dislike, but there are many sides I am deeply in love with and attached to.
‘Flower’ is about the sublime.
It’s stressful when you run a company.
