The new Pirates! builds on that legacy delivering an even more powerful and fun experience to players... and is still unmatched in offering a blend of genres in one great game.

A good game impresses you with what you're doing. I think that's a fundamental difference that I as a game designer need to recede in the background.

I like games that are simple. Not games that are trivial, but also not games that require you to invest a week or to relearn something. I like games that you can just pick up, sit down in front of, and get going.

I love Age of Empires and I play RTS games all the time, I respect what they've accomplished.

Our approach to making games is to find the fun first and then use the technology to enhance the fun.

No longer mere earthbeings and planetbeings are we, but bright children of the stars! And together we shall dance in and out of ten billion years, celebrating the gift of consciousness until the stars themselves grow cold and weary, and our thoughts turn again to the beginning.

A game is a series of interesting choices.