I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.

And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity.

Television is a very different thing from video games. It's kind of hard for me to compare.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

In an online community, there's this kind of social economy between the community members. Some people have status because they make cool skins or that's a good website that's visited a lot, but there's no real gameplay there.

It's rewarding to be able to change people's perceptions of reality, ... They just see their environment in a different way. They have a kind of different-colored glasses that they can see their world in. To me, that's really cool - when games can change you.

The new generation of consoles has as much power to do the kind of games that we do as the PC does.