video games

4 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Aug 16, 2018 by Jessica Brillhart · across every show →

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Aug 16, 2018 positive

Insight

Brillhart: The best games allow leisure exploration alongside narrative rails

“It's very musical in nature, the best games are, where they give you the capacity to explore at your leisure.”

Jessica Brillhart Aug 16, 2018 ▶ 12:22 Jessica Brillhart, Immersive Director, on VR and AR · Y Combinator

Dec 20, 2018 positive

Insight

Lantz: Game designers should aspire to chess and basketball, not movies

“Video games are awesome, but we should not be aspiring to be as successful as a successful movie, right? We should be looking at the history of, like, look at chess. Look at Go. Look at poker. Look at basketball. And that's what games can do, right? They can b…”

Frank Lantz Dec 20, 2018 ▶ 49:31 Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator

Dec 20, 2018 neutral

Insight

Lantz: Treating video games as distinct from classical games is parochial

“This border between video games and other kinds of games, I think is, we overemphasize it because it's, A bit, I think it's parochial. I think in, in, you know, we see computer games and these other games as being so distinct and separate. But I actually think…”

Frank Lantz Dec 20, 2018 ▶ 51:08 Frank Lantz - Director of NYU's Game Center and Creator of Universal Paperclips · Y Combinator

Jul 3, 2019 bearish

Opinion

Hale: Video games excel at intuitive onboarding while B2B software fails

“I think the people who are the best at this are video games. They do a phenomenal job, and the people who are worse at this is, like, B to B enterprise software.”

Kevin Hale Jul 3, 2019 ▶ 13:01 Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator

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