Gamers always believe that an epic win is possible and that it's always worth trying and trying now.

Clinically speaking, depression is a pessimistic sense of your own capabilities, and despondent lack of energy.

It seems like what happens when we play games is that we go into a psychological state called eustress, or positive stress. It's basically the same as negative stress in the sense that we get our adrenaline up, you know, our breathing rate quickens, our pulse quickens.

I didn't accomplish what I set out to do, but I realized I had set out to do the wrong things

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

When we're in game worlds, I believe that many of us become the best version of ourselves - the most likely to help at a moment's notice, the most likely to stick with a problem as long at it takes, to get up after failure and try again.

Compared with games, reality is disconnected.