Episode 78 - Sopranos Pinball w/ George Gomez

“I came from an era when prime directive in the era in which I started designing pinball machines was they had to make money. That was the thing that I grew up learning and trying to learn how to do.”

“It's really important that designers are into the fiction that they're trying to build games around...They have to be passionate about what they're doing because you're going to get much better stuff.”

“I want to take you and I want to put you in the world of that fiction as much as I can. And that means lots of attention to detail, the speech calls, the music, the theme setting stuff.”

“An industrial designer is a cross between an artist and an engineer...An engineer works typically at machine-machine interaction. An industrial designer works with man-machine interaction.”

“Early in my career, I figured out that if I didn't learn more of the engineering, it was too easy for engineers to tell me that something couldn't be made.”

“Games are all about feedback. If it doesn't have feedback, it's a passive form of entertainment. Interactive entertainment must have feedback.”

“Discovering things...this is not something I invented. Games do this all the time. Discovery is a big part of games. That's all part of design element that I try to incorporate in a lot of my stuff.”