55 Tim Sweeney Quotes for You to Enjoy

Tim Sweeney

American Businessman

Born: 1970

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You can't build an engine that's just good for one type of game anymore. The economics don't work. Tim Sweeney

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Unreal has to be an engine for everyone who wants to build a major game. Tim Sweeney

Game Build Everyone Unreal Major Wants Engine Who

That's the great things about games as social experiences. You play with all your friends across social groups. You see young girls as well as young boys playing. These are kids in school, people in offices, in pubs, all having fun together. Tim Sweeney

Great You Together People School Great Things Girl Young Kids See About Having Having Fun Well Boy Friends Offices Experiences Young Girls Social Across Your Games Fun Groups Play Things Pubs Playing

We've been happy to be able to work with Sony and Microsoft to have the first game that honors everyone's purchases across iOS, Android, PC, Mac, and the console platforms. Tim Sweeney

Work Game Happy First Everyone Mac Honors Console Android Purchases Able Sony Been Microsoft Across Platforms

I was really worried about the Windows RT project and these other efforts where Microsoft was creating versions of Windows that would be locked down and could force you to only install software through the Microsoft store. Tim Sweeney

You Down Other Software Worried Project Locked Would Would-Be Windows About Only Could Through Install Force Versions Efforts Microsoft Where Store Really Creating

'Fortnite' is the same game on all platforms, including high-end consoles and PCs. Tim Sweeney

Game Consoles High-End Same Fortnite Including Platforms

The thing that excites me most technologically is the ability to use VR not just for games and displaying our content, but also for creating that content. We're putting a lot of thought into what the Unreal Engine editor looks like as a VR application. Tim Sweeney

Every application designed for 2D interfaces will be obsoleted by AR. Tim Sweeney

Will Every Designed Application

Epic started out with scripting languages in the first generation of the Unreal engine in 1998. I wrote that. There's a place in my heart that comes along with the simplicity of programming in a scripting language. Tim Sweeney

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If you throw a frog in boiling water, he'll just hop out. But if you put him in warm water and slowly amp up the temperature, he won't notice and end up boiled. Tim Sweeney

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If you look at why people are paid to do things, it's because they're creating a good or delivering a service that's valuable to somebody. There's just as much potential for that in these virtual environments as there is in the real world. Tim Sweeney

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I understand the concept of advertising. It makes sense. Companies want to reach customers with information about their products. It's a completely legitimate and valuable notion. Tim Sweeney

Valuable Sense About Reach Concept Advertising Makes Understand Legitimate Want Information Customers Notion Products Companies

Streaming is something that's going to require tons of billions of dollars of investment, building server farms close to users and 5G and everything else. Tim Sweeney

Building Else Everything Everything Else Something Investment Dollars Close Going Require Farms Users Billions Billions Of Dollars Streaming Server Tons

We want a direct relationship with our customers. To build a business and sell products to them. Tim Sweeney

Relationship Business Build Our Direct Sell Want Them Customers Products

Some folks actually talk a whole lot more than me, so I'm grateful for the people like Cliff Bleszinski. He talks about our games, and Mark Rein talks about our business strategy. I'm the shy programmer myself. Tim Sweeney

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Hollywood is moving movie production into VR because it may be more immersive. We see a convergence of different forms of media. VR and AR provide next-generation viewing experiences for games, movies, and visualization. Tim Sweeney

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'Infinity Blade' has proven that iPhone owners are hungry for high-end games with cutting-edge graphics. Tim Sweeney

Hungry Blade High-End Proven iPhone Infinity Owners Games Graphics

While most game developers are focused entirely on what they're shipping in a year or two, a technology developer like Epic has to look much further out and plan many years ahead. Tim Sweeney

While Hollywood's computer graphics quality is world-class, their production pipelines are a mess of non-standard tools and labor-intensive processes driven by the mantra of maximizing quality regardless of cost. It's very Balkanized. Tim Sweeney

Quality World-Class Tools Cost Computer Driven Mess Very Maximizing Regardless Processes While Hollywood Production Mantra Graphics

Keep in mind, the web existed for almost a decade before social networks became pervasive. Even though the technology was available to make a social network in around 1995, it simply didn't happen until somebody had the idea to do it, do it big, and do it with a certain level of quality a decade later. Tim Sweeney

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The mobile gaming experience is fundamentally limited by this very small screen in front of you that occupies maybe 15 degrees of your field of view. The PC and console experience, you have a 45-degree field of view. VR is 120 degrees: your entire view space. The expectations of users on the platform will rise to levels we've never seen before. Tim Sweeney

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The great thing about VR is that the input is going to be so drastically better than mouse input or games with touch controls on smartphones. It'll make it much easier to build stuff and express yourself freely. Tim Sweeney

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